It is impossible to fight any type of combat from within an iron box. That's what you would need in order to ensure survivability from modern small arms fire.
A 5.56mm round will go through a tree, a brick wall, a sheet of metal, and yes even some fancy new vest. I've seen all of the above with my own eyes... including the fancy new vest.
Add to that the fact that contrary to popular opinion, that "flak" - meaning all the crap that those lightweight vests will help stop - and not bullets themselves cause a vast majority of battlefield casualties and you can see the reasoning behind the maddness.
As a former soldier, I can tell you that even lightweight body armour is a real pain in the ass to wear on a good day... never mind in +35 degree heat in some stinky city.
The box model is only broken on IE5.
It's even been correctly implimented in IE6.
CSS is for all practical purposes fully supported by modern browsers.
This is the major problem with Software dev. as a whole... everyone wants the work on the new ideas and features, nobody wants to bother to fix those features.
Why isn't the dual boot bug being fixed for FC2 before everyone moves to FC3?
Am I going to have to live with a dual boot bug in a future version of RH because of this neglect? Odds are, I will.
I don't have to run Fedora at all, but it doesn't do the community any good for me to be reporting bugs and errors in Core 1 when they're all testing Core 3 now does it?
The quick release schedule smacks of arrogance. That's why I compared it to 98. It seems to be all about getting the latest and greatest to the masses instead of making sure things work and doing it right. (Or do you honestly think all the bugs in FC2 have been corrected?)
What scares me is that Redhat claims this is a testing ground for new features in their enterprise products... Good grief!
Why do we continually have to live with buggy and crappy programs in REAL releases? Because the bleeding edge folk don't finish the job, that's why.
You nimrods of the redhat community better be reading this:
I do NOT need a new OS install every three weeks. I know some of you my not have lives, but try to understand those of us who do...
Listen, A new core every year would be great. It doesn't need to be a race. Improve what you need to improve on the platform you have, otherwise you'll end up like Windows 98. Remember that monstrosity? Think it can't happen to you?
some problems (she was not able to use mouse and so on) but not Linux specific
I don't know of any other OS out there that I've ever had the fun of not being able to use a mouse...
I use XP on the desktop, and Fedora 1 is installed and running on my "test" server, since I do a lot of web work.
Quite frankly, Linux is nowhere close to being a consideration for the desktop market. I could probably use it without any major headaches, but I'm not the "average" PC user.
The problem with linux is that its designed by hobbiests, for hobbiests. People who use XP don't care about their OS, how their drivers work or how to write code in emacs. Most folk I know don't even know how to access the contents of a CD if it doesn't autorun for them. They do know that the fonts don't look "pretty", and they get bent out of shape when you explain they can access the web using several different programs (What?). You want these folk to edit a text file and use a command line? By the way, what's a text file?
There's only one OS out there that can challenge the windows dominance of the desktop market right now: OS X. Unfortunatley, this OS continues to be tied to ridiculously overpriced hardware. I'd be the first to switch from XP entirely if I could run OSX on my x86 platform. (oh, and play some games too)
In my opinion, if the open source community spent some time writing an OSX port to x86 (yes, I know: copyrights fuck the market again!) windows would die a quick death.
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They have a tendency to make up new words every second day or so.
Ever done any user support lately? Most Windows users can't function if you remove a shortcut icon... you want them to open and close ports?
Some of us really need to get outside a little.
is that like a girlfriend or something?
Just because the law in the books is written a certain way, it doesn't mean that's how it's interpereted.
If a defence lawyer could show adequate case law to back up his argument (and there is plenty regarding fair use) what the book saws is irrelevant.
It is impossible to fight any type of combat from within an iron box. That's what you would need in order to ensure survivability from modern small arms fire.
A 5.56mm round will go through a tree, a brick wall, a sheet of metal, and yes even some fancy new vest. I've seen all of the above with my own eyes... including the fancy new vest.
Add to that the fact that contrary to popular opinion, that "flak" - meaning all the crap that those lightweight vests will help stop - and not bullets themselves cause a vast majority of battlefield casualties and you can see the reasoning behind the maddness.
As a former soldier, I can tell you that even lightweight body armour is a real pain in the ass to wear on a good day... never mind in +35 degree heat in some stinky city.
is how much /. fails it's users by not being standards compliant.
:-)
Time for a code upgrade!
and a good CMS to boot. www.drupal.org
The box model is only broken on IE5. It's even been correctly implimented in IE6. CSS is for all practical purposes fully supported by modern browsers.
Amen.
And XHTML is actually easier to write than HTML.
Thanks for your opinion though.
That as we continue along our current path, the odds of our complete self destruction rise exponentally - to the point of being almost 100% certain.
That being said, any sufficiently advanced civ would either have to overcome this tendancy (if they share it) or we would never meet then.
Of course, this says nothing about how they would treat us, only how they treat each other.
I was busy remebering the growing size of the girls chests when I was a school boy, not calculating lightening ditance.
Who should be supported in their vision of the future: Bill Gates or the RIAA?
Easy with the groupthink mods...god forbid there's a dissenting opinion out there.
In the future will incorporate these under-tested features from Fedora.
I shouldn't need to worry about fixing them then.
Probably not a good one, by I'm trying to make a point.
The whole idea of Fedora is that it's to be a testing ground for new technologies to incorporate into RH.
It can't do that successfully if it's not taking the time to fully test those technologies, because it's jumping to the "new thing" too quickly.
I don't care if fedora breaks... it's a testing ground.
I do care that RH 10 or 11 breaks, because they implemented an undertested "feature" derived from Fedora. This is the danger I'm talking about.
I do want to wait until the end of the day... considering I have 10 apps open right now.
This is the major problem with Software dev. as a whole... everyone wants the work on the new ideas and features, nobody wants to bother to fix those features.
Why isn't the dual boot bug being fixed for FC2 before everyone moves to FC3?
Am I going to have to live with a dual boot bug in a future version of RH because of this neglect? Odds are, I will.
I don't have to run Fedora at all, but it doesn't do the community any good for me to be reporting bugs and errors in Core 1 when they're all testing Core 3 now does it? The quick release schedule smacks of arrogance. That's why I compared it to 98. It seems to be all about getting the latest and greatest to the masses instead of making sure things work and doing it right. (Or do you honestly think all the bugs in FC2 have been corrected?) What scares me is that Redhat claims this is a testing ground for new features in their enterprise products... Good grief! Why do we continually have to live with buggy and crappy programs in REAL releases? Because the bleeding edge folk don't finish the job, that's why.
You nimrods of the redhat community better be reading this:
I do NOT need a new OS install every three weeks. I know some of you my not have lives, but try to understand those of us who do...
Listen, A new core every year would be great. It doesn't need to be a race. Improve what you need to improve on the platform you have, otherwise you'll end up like Windows 98. Remember that monstrosity? Think it can't happen to you?
Think again.
Try updating and not rebooting right away... you can't get rid of the Icon on the systray... and every five minutes or so it'll nag you to reboot.
Fucking POS.
definatley not a linux problem! :-)
some problems (she was not able to use mouse and so on) but not Linux specific I don't know of any other OS out there that I've ever had the fun of not being able to use a mouse...
I use XP on the desktop, and Fedora 1 is installed and running on my "test" server, since I do a lot of web work.
Quite frankly, Linux is nowhere close to being a consideration for the desktop market. I could probably use it without any major headaches, but I'm not the "average" PC user.
The problem with linux is that its designed by hobbiests, for hobbiests. People who use XP don't care about their OS, how their drivers work or how to write code in emacs. Most folk I know don't even know how to access the contents of a CD if it doesn't autorun for them. They do know that the fonts don't look "pretty", and they get bent out of shape when you explain they can access the web using several different programs (What?). You want these folk to edit a text file and use a command line? By the way, what's a text file?
There's only one OS out there that can challenge the windows dominance of the desktop market right now: OS X. Unfortunatley, this OS continues to be tied to ridiculously overpriced hardware. I'd be the first to switch from XP entirely if I could run OSX on my x86 platform. (oh, and play some games too)
In my opinion, if the open source community spent some time writing an OSX port to x86 (yes, I know: copyrights fuck the market again!) windows would die a quick death.