I can't get over the fact it won't install in extended partitions on PCs, though.
That's because extended partitions are a Microsoft thing designed for Microsoft operating systems. The only reason Linux does it is because Linux was specifically designed for a dual booting PC architecture. BSD doesn't do it, Solaris doesn't do it, and QNX doesn't do it.
Way back when, you installed an OS into its own partitition. Within that partition the OS could organize things however it wanted. UNIX decided to subpartition things one particular way. Then LATER Microsoft decided to do things completely different and did the extended/logical partition thing. Unfortunately, their scheme is totally f*cked. For example, you can only subpartition the last partition.
The easiest way around this is to simply use primary partitions. Windows will bitch at you, because Microsoft decided in their less infintessimal wisdom that you should only have one primary partition, but you can still do it. Give Windows partition four, and put QNX on one, two or three.
p.s. Of course, it doesn't help matters that manufacturers decided to ship systems with one giant 120Gb extended partition, but hey, that's not my fault either.
The problem is that we don't know which party these doubled votes went for (or which party lost votes would have gone for). So it's all depends on your bias. Since the media tends to be liberally biased (really, it's true), then you're going to see them analyze a Republican benefit. Lost a vote in a poor county? Obviously they would have voted Democrat. Found an extra vote in a rich county? Obviously they would have voted Republican.
As I said, this was a trivial example. I only brought it up because five years later in a distant county I was denied a library card. It was an example of a mandatory ID card following me.
So everyone wants to know why I didn't pay the fee. Because I was poor at the time. My car just got broken into and there were repairs I needed to take care of. Of course, none of this is an excuse, I should have gotten a third job to pay for it. But the fee turned out to be twice the value of the books. I didn't pay it because I was outraged at the price. Eighty bucks for three books that I priced out at forty dollars at the time.
While everyone gives you there theoretical analysis of the situation, I'll give you my tiny little practical anecdote of privacy and how it affects me.
About fifteen years ago my car was broken into. Among other things, they stole three library books. In the confusion I didn't realize this until a few months later on my next trip to the public library. EIGHTY DOLLAR FINE! Well actually, most of that was replacement fee. The fee was outrageous, and at the time I was quite poor so I couldn't pay for it.
To this day I cannot get a public library card without paying this fine. It's probably increased since then, but even if it hasn't, eighty bucks is an awful lot for a library card. This isn't just in the county where the books were due. Thanks to the state driver's license number (eg. ID card), I can't get a library card anywhere in the state. I did try five years later in a different county to no avail.
Yeah that's trivial. But imagine it on a national scale for more serious problems.
In California this was recommended by a bipartisan commission. That means Democrats were involved. Next year it's getting implemented in Oregon, an emphatically Democrat state.
71 has no impact right now, and will not for some time.
Of course it doesn't have any immediate impact. It's a bond, which is a debt, and which must be repaid. In other words it is a fancy name for a tax on your children.
You fail to understand the realities of modern politic. It was no big deal that lots of people bailed out on Clinton, because he was as a Democrat. But when lots of people bail on Bush, a Republican, then it's proof that they're rats fleeing a sinking ship. For the past four years the media mantra has been to condemn the Bush administration for acts and events that were identical to ones ignored during the Clinton administration.
It's hilarious to me that a bunch of wiki fanboys are crying that this is biased. It's as funny as Lucas accusing Spielberg of being biased in his review of TPM.
Wikipedia is a great idea, but it has a few fundamental problems at its core. Unfortunately the religious fanaticism of the project supporters guarantees they will never be fixed. When you let someone know that you found an error in an article, do they thank you? Fsck no! They scream at you for not fixing it yourself, you ungrateful swine, because they're too busy editing the Buffy episode guide article.
Even if you're doing Java, not all Java is going to be web-server-side Java. It really annoys me all these people who think that their little corner of the development world represents the totality of existance.
If corporations do have a level of intelligence, I don't think the size matters that much.
Brandybuck's Law states "the collective inteligence of an organization is inversely proportional to its size." There's a lot of reason for this, but it's a genuine observable phenomena. Just ask anyone who's been in the military.
They have this huge database of marketing gold and you think they won't capitalize on it in some nefarious way?
Individual human beings can be nefarious. Corporations cannot. They are not people (despite what the law says), and so cannot engage in emotional activities. Stop anthropomorphizing them. The bigger the corporation the dumber it is.
There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike corporations, but being nefarious entities is not one of them.
The only logical reason I can see for this move is to retain ballot access (eg. they're very close to the number of votes needed to stay on the ballot for next election). But I see no mention of this anywhere. So I don't believe it's true.
There's no way in hell I'm contributing to this. Badnarik was my candidate, but any donations now do absolutely NOTHING to help any Libertarian candidate or cause. I don't even care if they're right or wrong in their suspicion, because even if hell did freeze over and they were proven right, it still doesn't help any Libertarian candidate or cause.
It's like a dog shitting on your lawn. In many jurisdictions you can take the dog owner to court. But why spend $110,000 to sue the owner of a shitting dog? It's a waste!
Let me be perfectly clear here. I did not vote for Kerry, I voted for Badnarik. If I wanted Kerry to win I would have voted for him. It doesn't matter to me if Bush wins over Kerry or Kerry wins over Bush, I lose either way.
Whenever a new release of something is announced, there's the inevitable response of "but I just finished installing [old version here]". Well, it happened to me. I finish installing Firefox 1.0-RC2 and Slashdot was the first site I visited with it, and this was the first story. Sigh.
"Anarcho-capitalism" is not anarchism. It is an oxymoron.
Anarchism isn't a single brand of political thought. It encompasses everything implied by the word "anarchy". You socialists/syndicalists should have trademarked the term when you had the chance.
Anarcho-capitalists don't believe in government. They don't believe in the state. They don't believe in coercion. They believe in a society that is organized solely along voluntary associations. Fits my dictionary's definition of "anarchy".
How does one do the same thing with respect to buffer overflows and C or C++, AND still have things look and work like C or C++?
This is borderline troll material! Would you stop beating that dead horse? You avoid buffer overflows in C by checking the lengths of your buffers. You stop using C strings. You use container libraries. As for C++, you avoid them by using the included string and container classes.
The US Libertarian party is a mix of anarchists and "minarchists". The latter is the by far the stronger faction, but they're no where near as noisy as the former. Minarchists are for smaller government, the smaller the better, but they are not anarchists.
As a word, "libertarian" has been used to describe classic liberalism for a very long time. I've seen the word used in books dating from the mid 1940's.
note how you don't get any pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war
That's because there were no pictures of US solders torturing Iraqi prisoners. None. Yes, there were pictures of abuse. Yes, there were pictures of humilation. But there were no pictures of torture.
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Someone modded this down as a troll? WTF! Did I piss someone off, and if so, how?
I can't get over the fact it won't install in extended partitions on PCs, though.
That's because extended partitions are a Microsoft thing designed for Microsoft operating systems. The only reason Linux does it is because Linux was specifically designed for a dual booting PC architecture. BSD doesn't do it, Solaris doesn't do it, and QNX doesn't do it.
Way back when, you installed an OS into its own partitition. Within that partition the OS could organize things however it wanted. UNIX decided to subpartition things one particular way. Then LATER Microsoft decided to do things completely different and did the extended/logical partition thing. Unfortunately, their scheme is totally f*cked. For example, you can only subpartition the last partition.
The easiest way around this is to simply use primary partitions. Windows will bitch at you, because Microsoft decided in their less infintessimal wisdom that you should only have one primary partition, but you can still do it. Give Windows partition four, and put QNX on one, two or three.
p.s. Of course, it doesn't help matters that manufacturers decided to ship systems with one giant 120Gb extended partition, but hey, that's not my fault either.
The problem is that we don't know which party these doubled votes went for (or which party lost votes would have gone for). So it's all depends on your bias. Since the media tends to be liberally biased (really, it's true), then you're going to see them analyze a Republican benefit. Lost a vote in a poor county? Obviously they would have voted Democrat. Found an extra vote in a rich county? Obviously they would have voted Republican.
As I said, this was a trivial example. I only brought it up because five years later in a distant county I was denied a library card. It was an example of a mandatory ID card following me.
So everyone wants to know why I didn't pay the fee. Because I was poor at the time. My car just got broken into and there were repairs I needed to take care of. Of course, none of this is an excuse, I should have gotten a third job to pay for it. But the fee turned out to be twice the value of the books. I didn't pay it because I was outraged at the price. Eighty bucks for three books that I priced out at forty dollars at the time.
While everyone gives you there theoretical analysis of the situation, I'll give you my tiny little practical anecdote of privacy and how it affects me.
About fifteen years ago my car was broken into. Among other things, they stole three library books. In the confusion I didn't realize this until a few months later on my next trip to the public library. EIGHTY DOLLAR FINE! Well actually, most of that was replacement fee. The fee was outrageous, and at the time I was quite poor so I couldn't pay for it.
To this day I cannot get a public library card without paying this fine. It's probably increased since then, but even if it hasn't, eighty bucks is an awful lot for a library card. This isn't just in the county where the books were due. Thanks to the state driver's license number (eg. ID card), I can't get a library card anywhere in the state. I did try five years later in a different county to no avail.
Yeah that's trivial. But imagine it on a national scale for more serious problems.
As a native Californio, your offer is mightly tempting.
In California this was recommended by a bipartisan commission. That means Democrats were involved. Next year it's getting implemented in Oregon, an emphatically Democrat state.
71 has no impact right now, and will not for some time.
Of course it doesn't have any immediate impact. It's a bond, which is a debt, and which must be repaid. In other words it is a fancy name for a tax on your children.
You fail to understand the realities of modern politic. It was no big deal that lots of people bailed out on Clinton, because he was as a Democrat. But when lots of people bail on Bush, a Republican, then it's proof that they're rats fleeing a sinking ship. For the past four years the media mantra has been to condemn the Bush administration for acts and events that were identical to ones ignored during the Clinton administration.
Oh wow! They have their own self-adulation page. How thoughtful of them.
It's hilarious to me that a bunch of wiki fanboys are crying that this is biased. It's as funny as Lucas accusing Spielberg of being biased in his review of TPM.
Wikipedia is a great idea, but it has a few fundamental problems at its core. Unfortunately the religious fanaticism of the project supporters guarantees they will never be fixed. When you let someone know that you found an error in an article, do they thank you? Fsck no! They scream at you for not fixing it yourself, you ungrateful swine, because they're too busy editing the Buffy episode guide article.
Dammit, she did make me buy SCO stock, and I loved every teasing minute of it.
Even if you're doing Java, not all Java is going to be web-server-side Java. It really annoys me all these people who think that their little corner of the development world represents the totality of existance.
If corporations do have a level of intelligence, I don't think the size matters that much.
Brandybuck's Law states "the collective inteligence of an organization is inversely proportional to its size." There's a lot of reason for this, but it's a genuine observable phenomena. Just ask anyone who's been in the military.
They have this huge database of marketing gold and you think they won't capitalize on it in some nefarious way?
Individual human beings can be nefarious. Corporations cannot. They are not people (despite what the law says), and so cannot engage in emotional activities. Stop anthropomorphizing them. The bigger the corporation the dumber it is.
There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike corporations, but being nefarious entities is not one of them.
The only logical reason I can see for this move is to retain ballot access (eg. they're very close to the number of votes needed to stay on the ballot for next election). But I see no mention of this anywhere. So I don't believe it's true.
There's no way in hell I'm contributing to this. Badnarik was my candidate, but any donations now do absolutely NOTHING to help any Libertarian candidate or cause. I don't even care if they're right or wrong in their suspicion, because even if hell did freeze over and they were proven right, it still doesn't help any Libertarian candidate or cause.
It's like a dog shitting on your lawn. In many jurisdictions you can take the dog owner to court. But why spend $110,000 to sue the owner of a shitting dog? It's a waste!
Let me be perfectly clear here. I did not vote for Kerry, I voted for Badnarik. If I wanted Kerry to win I would have voted for him. It doesn't matter to me if Bush wins over Kerry or Kerry wins over Bush, I lose either way.
Whenever a new release of something is announced, there's the inevitable response of "but I just finished installing [old version here]". Well, it happened to me. I finish installing Firefox 1.0-RC2 and Slashdot was the first site I visited with it, and this was the first story. Sigh.
The exit polls are meaningless. They are not scientific. They consist of self-selected samples.
Too bad that buffer overflows still happen.
Too bad bugs happen in Java, C#, Python, Ruby and Lisp as well. Really they do!
"Anarcho-capitalism" is not anarchism. It is an oxymoron.
Anarchism isn't a single brand of political thought. It encompasses everything implied by the word "anarchy". You socialists/syndicalists should have trademarked the term when you had the chance.
Anarcho-capitalists don't believe in government. They don't believe in the state. They don't believe in coercion. They believe in a society that is organized solely along voluntary associations. Fits my dictionary's definition of "anarchy".
How does one do the same thing with respect to buffer overflows and C or C++, AND still have things look and work like C or C++?
This is borderline troll material! Would you stop beating that dead horse? You avoid buffer overflows in C by checking the lengths of your buffers. You stop using C strings. You use container libraries. As for C++, you avoid them by using the included string and container classes.
The US Libertarian party is a mix of anarchists and "minarchists". The latter is the by far the stronger faction, but they're no where near as noisy as the former. Minarchists are for smaller government, the smaller the better, but they are not anarchists.
As a word, "libertarian" has been used to describe classic liberalism for a very long time. I've seen the word used in books dating from the mid 1940's.
note how you don't get any pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war
That's because there were no pictures of US solders torturing Iraqi prisoners. None. Yes, there were pictures of abuse. Yes, there were pictures of humilation. But there were no pictures of torture.
He'll only give it to you if your apologize first.
Well, it's a start.