You're making two unjustified assumptions: (1) that he was "working for free" when he swept up the area around his workstation. He doesn't say whether this was on the clock or off. (2) that it was taking work away from someone else. How do you know that someone else would otherwise have been employed to do this? He said that no one had come around to do it.
In any case, there may well have been good reasons for him to take what was probably a very small amount of time to do this. The cardboard scraps may have posed a hazard for slippage or a fire hazard. Reducing the hazard to himself or other workers may well have been more important than the tiny fraction of a job that he may have "taken" from someone else.
If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting that every time I attempt to open a file
I enter $PWD? That's more convenient than typing the whole path, but much less convenient than having the widget do the right thing in the first place and use the working directory as its default.
They still haven't fixed what I regard as the biggest bug in OO: the fact that file-opening and -saving dialogues default to the last directory it used rather than the current working directory when running on GNU/Linux. It is understandable that OO would use the MS Windows convention when running on MS Windows, but importing those conventions into Unix is a bad user-interface practice. There's a reason that Unix people move from directory to directory. For experienced Unix users who use different directories for different projects, the failure to track the current directory is very irritating.
Even if they feel it necessary to provide the option of using the MS Windows conventions for people switching from MS Windows to Unix, it should be an option, not a requirement. And I doubt that this would be hard to do: determining the default directory for those dialogues is presumably only done in one or two places and should be very simple to code.
That would be tough to do since the seal hunt to which the EU objects, the harp seal hunt in Newfoundland and Labrador, is an overwhelmingly commercial hunt by non-aboriginal fishermen who earn nearly all of their income from other fishing activities. The Inuit seal hunt, which is for ringed and hooded seals, comprises about 3% of the total Canadian seal hunt. It is expressly exempted from the EU ban.
This is all explained in the Wikipedia article.
If that is true, why were cattle herders in the 19th century American West so strongly opposed to sheep-herding? The usual reason is that the sheep leave pasture land unsuitable for grazing by cattle.
Sheep mow the grass much lower than cattle do. Not sure about goats. If they used sheep they'd have to be careful to avoid cutting the grass so short that turned brown and died. Google is in a semi-arid climate.
The difference is that the FEMA site is a site to which people go in search of information about disasters and emergencies. Bruce Perens' site is not. Furthermore, until some silly people began to complain about it, FEMA did have it on its site.
No, this isn't censorship in the strict sense, but it is unfortunate that a government site should take down a perfectly appropriate publication because some people whine about it.
I first installed Linux on my laptop in the Spring of 1995. The distribution was Slackware, on 32 floppies as I recall. I had been using Unix since 1982, so for me this was not an introduction to Unix but rather, to my great relief, the ability to use Unix on my personal computers.
The bit about copyright on the "legal" page is just boilerplate. All it means is that the presentation of a document on this site doesn't necessarily make it public domain or grant some other license, that the owners of the original document retain whatever rights they have. The copyright laws of individual countries are only valid within that country - you only need to concern yourself with your own country's laws. There are indeed a lot of problems with excessive copyright in the world, but the copyright concerns in the post are much ado about nothing.
Yes, I would say that it is more difficult than Arabic. In the case of Arabic you've just got positional variants of most letters, but they don't actually combine in particularly complicated ways, with a few limited exceptions that can be treated as ligatures, e.g. alif-lam. The problem in Tibet in is that you not only have vowel diacritics like in Devanagari but complex stacks of consonants.
It is true that the government of Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion had many faults. However, that does not in any way justify the Chinese invasion and colonization of Tibet. First, if the Chinese goal were merely to free the serfs etc., they could have done so and withdrawn. There would be no need to stay for fifty years, much less to introduce hundreds of thousands of colonists and suppress Tibetan culture. Second, the faults of the Tibetan government cannot be attributed to the Dalai Lama, who was very young when the Chinese invaded. He has consistently supported democracy, equality, and human rights. There is no reason to believe that Tibet under a restored Tibetan government led by the Dalai Lama would not be a progressive government. Third, while there have been some benefits of modernization under the Chinese regime, it is a dictatorship, not a democracy, without freedom of speech or most other human rights, and so in most respects no improvement over, or even worse than, the old Tibetan government.
In sum, sure, it is silly to believe that everything was just wonderful until the Chinese invasion, but that shouldn't be taken to justify Chinese imperialism.
Actually, designing a Tibetan font is rather difficult. Tibetan letters combine in complicated ways (somewhat like Devanagari, but worse), meaning that it is either necessary to produce very sophisticated rendering software/info or necessary to create a large number of pre-combined glyphs.
I'm a little surprised to hear that there is no good Tibetan font. Here is a list of Unicode-encoded Tibetan fonts, mostly both free and libre. Do none of them meet the need?
Seriously, this is a great project. Surely the appropriate solution is a version of either GNU/Linux, such as SELinux, or OpenBSD. No system is entirely secure, but the idea that MS Windows could be as secure as GNU/Linux or BSD is wild.
Actually, here in Canada we do have "advisory" opinions of a sort. When the government makes a "reference" to the Supreme Court of Canada, the result is an "advisory" opinion in that it is essentially advice to the government as to the advisability of a proposed action by the government, not a decision in an actual controversy, and, crucially, is not legally binding. Indeed, not long ago, when the government requested the opinion of the Supreme Court in regard to same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court declined to offer an opinion, giving as its reason the fact that the government had decided to proceed with its chosen position regardless of the position of the Supreme Court.
Such references are typically in regard to constitutional issues but need not be. They may even concern individual criminal cases. For example, the government referred the David Milgaard case to the Supreme Court, and on receiving the opinion of the Court that Milgaard's conviction should be set aside, the Minister of Justice ordered a new trial. (Milgaard was not retried because the Government of Sasketchewan stayed the proceedings against him.)
Only the Governor-General-in-Council has the power to make a reference to the Supreme Court.
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You're making two unjustified assumptions: (1) that he was "working for free" when he swept up the area around his workstation. He doesn't say whether this was on the clock or off. (2) that it was taking work away from someone else. How do you know that someone else would otherwise have been employed to do this? He said that no one had come around to do it.
In any case, there may well have been good reasons for him to take what was probably a very small amount of time to do this. The cardboard scraps may have posed a hazard for slippage or a fire hazard. Reducing the hazard to himself or other workers may well have been more important than the tiny fraction of a job that he may have "taken" from someone else.
Australian English really is different. What they call a "broom", we call a "bazooka".
If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting that every time I attempt to open a file I enter $PWD? That's more convenient than typing the whole path, but much less convenient than having the widget do the right thing in the first place and use the working directory as its default.
Why on earth are business people doing statistics in an office suite rather than in a real statistical package?
They still haven't fixed what I regard as the biggest bug in OO: the fact that file-opening and -saving dialogues default to the last directory it used rather than the current working directory when running on GNU/Linux. It is understandable that OO would use the MS Windows convention when running on MS Windows, but importing those conventions into Unix is a bad user-interface practice. There's a reason that Unix people move from directory to directory. For experienced Unix users who use different directories for different projects, the failure to track the current directory is very irritating.
Even if they feel it necessary to provide the option of using the MS Windows conventions for people switching from MS Windows to Unix, it should be an option, not a requirement. And I doubt that this would be hard to do: determining the default directory for those dialogues is presumably only done in one or two places and should be very simple to code.
Actually, many scientists believe that the expansion of the Sahara desert is due to loss of vegetation due to over-grazing.
Indeed, there's a famous story about a guy calling SCO from his tank during the first Iraq War and downloading a patch.
Yes, but does it run Linux?
That would be tough to do since the seal hunt to which the EU objects, the harp seal hunt in Newfoundland and Labrador, is an overwhelmingly commercial hunt by non-aboriginal fishermen who earn nearly all of their income from other fishing activities. The Inuit seal hunt, which is for ringed and hooded seals, comprises about 3% of the total Canadian seal hunt. It is expressly exempted from the EU ban. This is all explained in the Wikipedia article.
If that is true, why were cattle herders in the 19th century American West so strongly opposed to sheep-herding? The usual reason is that the sheep leave pasture land unsuitable for grazing by cattle.
Sheep mow the grass much lower than cattle do. Not sure about goats. If they used sheep they'd have to be careful to avoid cutting the grass so short that turned brown and died. Google is in a semi-arid climate.
The difference is that the FEMA site is a site to which people go in search of information about disasters and emergencies. Bruce Perens' site is not. Furthermore, until some silly people began to complain about it, FEMA did have it on its site.
No, this isn't censorship in the strict sense, but it is unfortunate that a government site should take down a perfectly appropriate publication because some people whine about it.
For some reason the article says that only variables beginning with I,J,and K were implicitly integers in Fortran. Actually, it was I-N.
I first installed Linux on my laptop in the Spring of 1995. The distribution was Slackware, on 32 floppies as I recall. I had been using Unix since 1982, so for me this was not an introduction to Unix but rather, to my great relief, the ability to use Unix on my personal computers.
This list is more comprehensive.
The bit about copyright on the "legal" page is just boilerplate. All it means is that the presentation of a document on this site doesn't necessarily make it public domain or grant some other license, that the owners of the original document retain whatever rights they have. The copyright laws of individual countries are only valid within that country - you only need to concern yourself with your own country's laws. There are indeed a lot of problems with excessive copyright in the world, but the copyright concerns in the post are much ado about nothing.
I'm pretty sure that in Bangladesh there's no need to go down to -40C. Hot, humid, and dusty are the problems, not cold.
Yes, I would say that it is more difficult than Arabic. In the case of Arabic you've just got positional variants of most letters, but they don't actually combine in particularly complicated ways, with a few limited exceptions that can be treated as ligatures, e.g. alif-lam. The problem in Tibet in is that you not only have vowel diacritics like in Devanagari but complex stacks of consonants.
It is true that the government of Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion had many faults. However, that does not in any way justify the Chinese invasion and colonization of Tibet. First, if the Chinese goal were merely to free the serfs etc., they could have done so and withdrawn. There would be no need to stay for fifty years, much less to introduce hundreds of thousands of colonists and suppress Tibetan culture. Second, the faults of the Tibetan government cannot be attributed to the Dalai Lama, who was very young when the Chinese invaded. He has consistently supported democracy, equality, and human rights. There is no reason to believe that Tibet under a restored Tibetan government led by the Dalai Lama would not be a progressive government. Third, while there have been some benefits of modernization under the Chinese regime, it is a dictatorship, not a democracy, without freedom of speech or most other human rights, and so in most respects no improvement over, or even worse than, the old Tibetan government.
In sum, sure, it is silly to believe that everything was just wonderful until the Chinese invasion, but that shouldn't be taken to justify Chinese imperialism.
Actually, designing a Tibetan font is rather difficult. Tibetan letters combine in complicated ways (somewhat like Devanagari, but worse), meaning that it is either necessary to produce very sophisticated rendering software/info or necessary to create a large number of pre-combined glyphs.
I'm a little surprised to hear that there is no good Tibetan font. Here is a list of Unicode-encoded Tibetan fonts, mostly both free and libre. Do none of them meet the need?
The obvious solution is Yellow Hat GNU/Linux.
Seriously, this is a great project. Surely the appropriate solution is a version of either GNU/Linux, such as SELinux, or OpenBSD. No system is entirely secure, but the idea that MS Windows could be as secure as GNU/Linux or BSD is wild.
Actually, here in Canada we do have "advisory" opinions of a sort. When the government makes a "reference" to the Supreme Court of Canada, the result is an "advisory" opinion in that it is essentially advice to the government as to the advisability of a proposed action by the government, not a decision in an actual controversy, and, crucially, is not legally binding. Indeed, not long ago, when the government requested the opinion of the Supreme Court in regard to same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court declined to offer an opinion, giving as its reason the fact that the government had decided to proceed with its chosen position regardless of the position of the Supreme Court.
Such references are typically in regard to constitutional issues but need not be. They may even concern individual criminal cases. For example, the government referred the David Milgaard case to the Supreme Court, and on receiving the opinion of the Court that Milgaard's conviction should be set aside, the Minister of Justice ordered a new trial. (Milgaard was not retried because the Government of Sasketchewan stayed the proceedings against him.)
Only the Governor-General-in-Council has the power to make a reference to the Supreme Court.
I would think that OSHA (or its equivalent elsewhere if you're not in the US) would have something to say about such unsanitary working conditions.
Something is fishy here. Very few Orthodox Jews contribute money to Islamic terrorists. Jews are virtually all on the anti-genocide side.