I'm still keeping my fingers crossed hoping we don't get stuck with it. It will be a sad era when Microsoft dictates specifications to the Open Source and Free Software communities...
the fact that you refer to US media as the shining light and example for their European counterparts is utterly ridiculous.
I've done no such thing! I despise the mainstream US media. Journalism has been replaced by entertainment. Bad news sells, so we get it by the ton, with good news only shown as a means to pace the bad news.
The reporting of the US economy is a good example. Last week the mainstream news reported job growth, but with the caveat that they were merely manufacturing and service jobs, not glamorous dot.com tech jobs, so the economy was still in the doldrums. They implied that unemployment was down because people were accepting bad jobs.
I wasn't judging Bubba by his relatives, but by his demeanor and persona. What does relatives have to do with it anyway? Did you think I was making a joke about inbreeding or something?
all imporant recent cases you had your media do it for you
EXACTLY! The US press likes nothing more than show the rest of the world how evil the US is. Continually and at loud volume. And then Hollywood goes and portays a completely fictitious culture to boot. The US is *NOT* what you see on in the media and the movies.
Europe has every fault the US has. It just doesn't advertise that fact.
Don't let them label you "autistic". Don't let them classify you "special education". You should be the one in control of your life, not a bunch of school counselors.
Read about the education of such geniuses as Franklin, Edison and Einstein.
Those issue based episodes ruined it the worst. If I wanted to be preached at, I would watch TBN instead of TNG! The problem with TNG is that it tells you what to think so that you don't have to.
That wikipedia has a page for Opera the browser is sad. That wikipedia has a page for Opera the browser that is four times more extensive than the page for Opera the artform makes me fear for the future of civilization.
That an anonymous coward in Slashdot would consider wikipedia to be an reliable source of information is par for the course.
For it to have been a mistake, they would have had to make a typo in a page specifically designed for Opera without testing that page in Opera.
Well of course! But since when have you ever heard of any web developer testing their page in anything but Internet Explorer (if indeed, they even bother to test)?
Perhaps that's why he keeps hyping it as one of the most important movies of our time...
I actually remember when Art Bell was an ordinary conservative talk show host. He was the slightly to the right counterpart of the slightly to the left Larry King. No discussions of aliens or psychics anywhere.
I have no idea what happened to change Art Bell so much. I somehow suspect that he had a kook author on one early AM, and was amazed to see his rating skyrocket.
We cannot predict the weather because weather is a chaotic system. Likewise, we cannot predict the climate, because climate (being comprised of weather) is also a chaotic system.
We can "model" the climate in an attempt to understand it, but the model remains useless for prediction.
This is a FAQ from concerned "scientists"? Can you spot the logical fallacy in the following sentence?
"We know with great certainty that the Earth is already warming, largely because as we burn fossil fuels and clear forests we are releasing carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere."
Speaking of sinking landscapes, about ten years ago I was having a conversation with a woman. She was trying to convince me that global warming was causing the ocean level to rise. She said she knew it because scientists were using lasers to measure the ocean level near her home. She claimed that near her home the ocean was rising one centimeter per year.
Holy deluge, Batman! If the oceans were rising that fast there wouldn't be any controversy on the issue, but universal panic instead. Then I remembered where she lived. Right on top of the San Andreas fault...
I said that warranties of merchantability are exceptions. It's "truth in merchandising". You sold me a toaster, it had better be able to toast bread! That's why they're called "implied" warranties. They're not true warranties.
Of course, I agree with your general thesis. If someone sells me software, they are implicitly repesenting to me that the software is merchantable. All commercial software, even commercial open source software, should be warrantied. If it breaks during normal usage I get my money back. Just like it was a toaster.
It is a different culture. I'm an system software developer. For the past five years I've worked on Solaris and LynxOS. I'm used to coding the "right thing", even if it takes longer.
But now the company has been taken over by the Microsofties. One of them told me the "secret" to development in Windows: just do what Microsoft wants you to do. Everything is designed to be done in one particular way, and if you don't do it that way you'll end up working ten times as hard.
Did you ever think of merely printing it to a file through a postscript printer driver? That's what I've always done under Windows. Works like a charm.
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I'm still keeping my fingers crossed hoping we don't get stuck with it. It will be a sad era when Microsoft dictates specifications to the Open Source and Free Software communities...
the fact that you refer to US media as the shining light and example for their European counterparts is utterly ridiculous.
I've done no such thing! I despise the mainstream US media. Journalism has been replaced by entertainment. Bad news sells, so we get it by the ton, with good news only shown as a means to pace the bad news.
The reporting of the US economy is a good example. Last week the mainstream news reported job growth, but with the caveat that they were merely manufacturing and service jobs, not glamorous dot.com tech jobs, so the economy was still in the doldrums. They implied that unemployment was down because people were accepting bad jobs.
"Bubba" was just as much president as "Dubya".
I wasn't judging Bubba by his relatives, but by his demeanor and persona. What does relatives have to do with it anyway? Did you think I was making a joke about inbreeding or something?
all imporant recent cases you had your media do it for you
EXACTLY! The US press likes nothing more than show the rest of the world how evil the US is. Continually and at loud volume. And then Hollywood goes and portays a completely fictitious culture to boot. The US is *NOT* what you see on in the media and the movies.
Europe has every fault the US has. It just doesn't advertise that fact.
Fat lot of good being a Rhodes scholar did for Clinton's intellectual reputation! But speaking of low grades...
Bush got higher grades at Yale than Gore did, despite Gore getting into Yale through his father's senatorial connections!
Some references: (Yes, the last one is a link to a conservative site. Gasp!):
Nations Online
Quest for the Presidency
Larry Elder
The big difference between America and Europe, is that America airs its dirty laundry in public so that Europe can feel morally superior.
Finally, the rightwing people are embarrassed by the lack of intellectualism. :-)
:-)
I realize that this was supposed to be a joke, but the first thing I thought of was Bubba Clinton and the amazing state of literacy in Arkansas
Don't let them label you "autistic". Don't let them classify you "special education". You should be the one in control of your life, not a bunch of school counselors.
Read about the education of such geniuses as Franklin, Edison and Einstein.
Those issue based episodes ruined it the worst. If I wanted to be preached at, I would watch TBN instead of TNG! The problem with TNG is that it tells you what to think so that you don't have to.
Most FUD, of course, will be measured in microSCOs.
That wikipedia has a page for Opera the browser is sad. That wikipedia has a page for Opera the browser that is four times more extensive than the page for Opera the artform makes me fear for the future of civilization.
That an anonymous coward in Slashdot would consider wikipedia to be an reliable source of information is par for the course.
The only thing the MSN guys did wrong was not testing with Opera 7 before it was released.
Microsoft's hostility towards testing could explain a heck of lot...
For it to have been a mistake, they would have had to make a typo in a page specifically designed for Opera without testing that page in Opera.
Well of course! But since when have you ever heard of any web developer testing their page in anything but Internet Explorer (if indeed, they even bother to test)?
Perhaps that's why he keeps hyping it as one of the most important movies of our time...
I actually remember when Art Bell was an ordinary conservative talk show host. He was the slightly to the right counterpart of the slightly to the left Larry King. No discussions of aliens or psychics anywhere.
I have no idea what happened to change Art Bell so much. I somehow suspect that he had a kook author on one early AM, and was amazed to see his rating skyrocket.
We cannot predict the weather because weather is a chaotic system. Likewise, we cannot predict the climate, because climate (being comprised of weather) is also a chaotic system.
We can "model" the climate in an attempt to understand it, but the model remains useless for prediction.
This is a FAQ from concerned "scientists"? Can you spot the logical fallacy in the following sentence?
"We know with great certainty that the Earth is already warming, largely because as we burn fossil fuels and clear forests we are releasing carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere."
Speaking of sinking landscapes, about ten years ago I was having a conversation with a woman. She was trying to convince me that global warming was causing the ocean level to rise. She said she knew it because scientists were using lasers to measure the ocean level near her home. She claimed that near her home the ocean was rising one centimeter per year.
Holy deluge, Batman! If the oceans were rising that fast there wouldn't be any controversy on the issue, but universal panic instead. Then I remembered where she lived. Right on top of the San Andreas fault...
So basically, if we're picky humans, we should be trying to ALTER our environment.
What post are your replying to? Because your quote doesn't come from my post!
RMS: It isn't Linux. It's the GNU System.
AdTI: OMG! Linus didn't write Linux!
I said that warranties of merchantability are exceptions. It's "truth in merchandising". You sold me a toaster, it had better be able to toast bread! That's why they're called "implied" warranties. They're not true warranties.
Of course, I agree with your general thesis. If someone sells me software, they are implicitly repesenting to me that the software is merchantable. All commercial software, even commercial open source software, should be warrantied. If it breaks during normal usage I get my money back. Just like it was a toaster.
I thought the Flynn Effect was about hacking into the Master Control Program...
It is a different culture. I'm an system software developer. For the past five years I've worked on Solaris and LynxOS. I'm used to coding the "right thing", even if it takes longer.
But now the company has been taken over by the Microsofties. One of them told me the "secret" to development in Windows: just do what Microsoft wants you to do. Everything is designed to be done in one particular way, and if you don't do it that way you'll end up working ten times as hard.
Did you ever think of merely printing it to a file through a postscript printer driver? That's what I've always done under Windows. Works like a charm.