Indeed. But under a dictatorship - and under the pre-war military dictatorship in Japan - opposition to the military tends to be aggresively put down. I'd suggest it speaks volumes about the Japanese character that from earflier epsiodes in China and Korea, up to as late as 1945, there was some - understandably limited - opposition to the military.
Live in a dictatorship for a while - then criticize the silence of those who suffered it. As others have said, it's not always easy to speak out when you're afraid.
After the Rape of Nanking, its very hard to have any sympathy for any Japanese. [my emphasis]
Because all Japanese supported it? I was under the - apparently mistaken - impression that pre-war and wartime Japan was a dictatorship. Or is this another stunning example of generalising to avoid making real points?
We need an OSS clone of Flex functionality. It is insanely great.
Agreed - I've attended one promotional meeting, expecting to be cynical, and I was practically a convert within an hour. XUL looks like it could be that clone - or at least a competent competitor - but I'm still concerned that without one clear direction certain large companies will muscle in. Heck, I can see even Macromedia losing this one. Prove me wrong, World, prove me wrong!
I think it's most likely option #2 - 0.79 is a nice psychological number. A previous poster, in a past post, mentioned that Canada and the US often have price-parity: ie. something selling for US$19.99 South of the border will sell for CDN$19.99 North of the border. It's not supply-and-demand - it's what people accept and remember. Oh, and the opportunity for big business to add a little margin on to everything!
I've encountered very few, mainly in printing/advertising, etc. Apple in the US seem to have targetted education heavily; in the UK that niche was filled first (80s) by Acorn and Research machines, then latterly by PC-clones.
The only two Macs I've seen recently were:
a testing box, here in the office, and
a gorgeous powerbook owned by a colleague (a Java developer)
However... iPods appear to be extremely popular. I'd guess they're the Windows-variety, though. (I suppose it's also possible that there aren't that many iPods - just a lot of kids with white headphones;)
As with every other Mozilla/Firefox/Firebird/Whatever-They-Call-It-Thi s-Week browser story, my question is... "So?". The review in no way mentions a single thing that makes this browser "better" or makes me want to take time to download and install a new program. Why? Give me a good, solid reason why I should download a new program, complete with potential problems, headaches, etc.
...no problems here. A few people have reported that upgrading 0.8 to 0.9 took their IE bookmarks, rather than their Firefox bookmarks. I didn't have this problem, but I un-installed first.
...to replace a perfectly good, functional program?
...well, it depends what browser(s) you're using right now. Compared to IE, Firefox brings tabbed-browsing, pop-up blocking, extensibility, themability, etc. I'd guess you may not want or need all of those, but some might be useful. If you're using Opera or a KHTML-based browser, you'll already have much of that - now you can get it for free (as in beer, as in speech) [disclaimer: I know Konqueror is F/LOSS]
I can't seem to think that the Mozilla developers are kind of like people developing new and better pencils. Except this special pencil is hard to find,
Link at top of page. Took me a few seconds to locate, click and start downloading.
...takes time to figure out how to use,
I was used to IE, and I found Firefox behaved pretty much identically. Then again, whenever I use Konqueror or Safari, I tend to be surprised at how similar they are to other browsers. Key-bindings take a while to adjust to, everything else is generally pretty intuitive.
...and does what, exactly, that a regular pencil doesn't do? "Come one and all! See our amazing new pencil! It'll revolutionize the hot, exciting pencil industry!! It'll change the way you use pencils! The lead is softer and the wood is harder! Can you imagine how much more work you could get done with this new pencil? " It's just silly.
Firefox's extensions are the soft-lead/hard-wood for me - I couldn't go back to a browser without extensibility. There's no way anyone would build a browser "just for me", and my needs - like many peoples - aren't standard.
Conclusion: what sets Firefox apart is that: (a) an out-of-the-box, vanilla-install of Firefox is a fairly low-footprint, high-feature browser. It doesn't try to be all things to all people, and it doesn't suffer from bloat. It's made compromises to achieve it's relatively small size; (b) it's extensible. It's small, but you can plug-in functionality. Self-selected bloat!
Off-topic, but wouldn't the time for/. to admit the metamod system doesn't work be after the moderation has been meta-modded? Or even after the post has been fully moderated? You replied after one mod. That's like getting the first person you see in the street to select the President.
Incidentally, I've already replied to the OP with a correction - but I certainly don't think we need to start attacking all moderators because one mod failed to RTFA, and will probably get hammered come meta-mod-time.
The network is internal, not part of the Internet, so IPv4 should do - but the way Britain seems to change phone-numbering in order to cram a few more million phone users in...maybe IPv6 isn't that unreasonable!
Slightly off-topic, but when the USA and the USSR were planning to dock two space-craft for the first time, neither power would agree to their craft being "penetrated" by the other - if I remember correctly a "female-to-female" adaptor was the eventual diplomatic solution.
Ironically, the Soviet Union was reasonably progressive in terms of putting women in space.
Then it [patents on the technology] won't matter, because no-one else will use the technology and it'll just quietly fade away.
I wish this were true. My fear is, we'll get used to "pick-n-drop", it'll become indispensible, and then the submarine patents will emerge, faster than you can say "gif", "jpeg", "FAT", etc.
CCTV in the UK is massively useful, and shown to be a useful tool and deterent when dealing with crime.
Not trolling, but could you cite some evidence to support that? The (limited) areas I'm familiar with (Glasgow, parts of West of Scotland) don't appear any safer since the widespread introduction of CCTV, but I'd prefer to trust an academic study rather than my own - totally subjective - perception. So far, it seems to me like an excuse to spend tax-payers money to appear "tough on crime", while avoiding doing anything about being "tough on the causes of crime".
Attention US-Citizens! No one abroad has been looking to the US as a benchmark for political and social progress since about 1973. Sorry to disappoint you.
Maybe, but this "furriner" (Kiwi, resident in Scotland) still looks to US history as a Golden Age - one of the first (the first?) modern republics, overthrowing Imperialist rule, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution... the US may have stalled, but there are countries that still don't have a written constitution - I'm looking at you, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
The USA has never been perfect. What set it apart from other countries was that at least it tried. I hope it starts trying again.
In the UK camera were brought in as "a deterent". My local (Glasgow) cameras are a dark blue, that nicely blend in with the dull grey surroundings. They ain't visible, and they ain't detering. Needless to say, consumer groups are arguing that maybe, just maybe, speed cameras are a money-generating device, and that they should be painted - say - bright yellow if the government is seriosu about cuttign accidents.
And there was me thinking that the original poster just hadn't updated from the Good Old Days of the GPO!
(GPO = General Post Office, the fore-runner of British Telecom and the Royal Mail. Factoid: Tommy Flowers, the engineer who built Colossus, was a GPO employee)
I lived in the Sultanate of Oman (eastern Arabian peninsula; east of Saudi Arabia) during the 80s. A number of Omanis told me that Christians and Jews (there were expatriate Jews in Oman, but no Israelis) were "people of the book", and should not be harmed.
When I studied history (in Europe) I learnt that during the Crusades, Muslims wouldn't fight Christians so they had to employ mercenaries and slaves to defend themselves.
The Muslim world was traditionally more tolerant of Jews that Inquisition-era Europe.
Bringing this back on-topic, could I suggest that your research resembles Ken Brown's?
(Disclaimer: not a Muslim, not an Arab, not an Israel-basher, not a terrorist)
I see it as a tax-code definition (otherwise they'd presumably just become a charitable foundation?), but I also don't see gentoo.org sitting down and deciding "let's become a not-for-profit so our CEO can get rich quick." I could be completely wrong, but my understanding of Gentoo is that they took this course for stability rather than greed.
I think the real answer to the OP's question ("how long will it take to compile the documentation to make Gentoo a not-for-profit organization?") involves "emerge"...!
(Obligatory, uninformed anti-Gentoo flame:...and it'll take a lot longer than six months;)
GNU/Linux distros don't come with firewall enabled cause they don't need it
1. My distro (Mandrake) at least came with the Firewall enabled - enabeld on 9.1, still enabled when I upgraded to 10.0. I believe most other mainstream distros do have the firewall
enabled by default;
2. Firewalls aren't just for stupid backdoor services that the vendor should have disabled - they're also for legitimate services that the end-user may need installed: P2P in many cases, BitTorrent (alright, that's strictly P2P, too), Apache (in my case), etc.
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Indeed. But under a dictatorship - and under the pre-war military dictatorship in Japan - opposition to the military tends to be aggresively put down. I'd suggest it speaks volumes about the Japanese character that from earflier epsiodes in China and Korea, up to as late as 1945, there was some - understandably limited - opposition to the military.
Live in a dictatorship for a while - then criticize the silence of those who suffered it. As others have said, it's not always easy to speak out when you're afraid.
After the Rape of Nanking, its very hard to have any sympathy for any Japanese. [my emphasis]
Because all Japanese supported it? I was under the - apparently mistaken - impression that pre-war and wartime Japan was a dictatorship. Or is this another stunning example of generalising to avoid making real points?
We need an OSS clone of Flex functionality. It is insanely great.
Agreed - I've attended one promotional meeting, expecting to be cynical, and I was practically a convert within an hour. XUL looks like it could be that clone - or at least a competent competitor - but I'm still concerned that without one clear direction certain large companies will muscle in. Heck, I can see even Macromedia losing this one. Prove me wrong, World, prove me wrong!
I think you're bang on the money regarding Microsoft and open standards.
My prophecy is that Microsoft have their eye on the next web battle over standards - XAML vs. XUL vs. Flex.
You network anything, it will be used by for shady purposes by unscrupulous folk.
Sadly true.
I think it's most likely option #2 - 0.79 is a nice psychological number. A previous poster, in a past post, mentioned that Canada and the US often have price-parity: ie. something selling for US$19.99 South of the border will sell for CDN$19.99 North of the border. It's not supply-and-demand - it's what people accept and remember. Oh, and the opportunity for big business to add a little margin on to everything!
It looks like UK customers get lumped together with Irish customers (sorry, Ireland!) so it's possible we might be able to pay in Euro.
(Dons tinfoil hat) In fact - maybe it's all a cunning plan to encourage us to adopt the Euro! (No-one tell Kilroy Silk ;)
Europe has many varying laws, from country to country, I'd imagine.
That's broadly it - in theory there's a unified directive; in practice only two states had implemented it as of end 2002.
How many Apple users are there in Europe anyway?
(UK-specific)
I've encountered very few, mainly in printing/advertising, etc. Apple in the US seem to have targetted education heavily; in the UK that niche was filled first (80s) by Acorn and Research machines, then latterly by PC-clones.
The only two Macs I've seen recently were:
However... iPods appear to be extremely popular. I'd guess they're the Windows-variety, though. (I suppose it's also possible that there aren't that many iPods - just a lot of kids with white headphones ;)
As with every other Mozilla/Firefox/Firebird/Whatever-They-Call-It-Thi s-Week browser story, my question is... "So?". The review in no way mentions a single thing that makes this browser "better" or makes me want to take time to download and install a new program. Why? Give me a good, solid reason why I should download a new program, complete with potential problems, headaches, etc.
...no problems here. A few people have reported that upgrading 0.8 to 0.9 took their IE bookmarks, rather than their Firefox bookmarks. I didn't have this problem, but I un-installed first.
...well, it depends what browser(s) you're using right now. Compared to IE, Firefox brings tabbed-browsing, pop-up blocking, extensibility, themability, etc. I'd guess you may not want or need all of those, but some might be useful. If you're using Opera or a KHTML-based browser, you'll already have much of that - now you can get it for free (as in beer, as in speech) [disclaimer: I know Konqueror is F/LOSS]
I can't seem to think that the Mozilla developers are kind of like people developing new and better pencils. Except this special pencil is hard to find,
Link at top of page. Took me a few seconds to locate, click and start downloading.
I was used to IE, and I found Firefox behaved pretty much identically. Then again, whenever I use Konqueror or Safari, I tend to be surprised at how similar they are to other browsers. Key-bindings take a while to adjust to, everything else is generally pretty intuitive.
Firefox's extensions are the soft-lead/hard-wood for me - I couldn't go back to a browser without extensibility. There's no way anyone would build a browser "just for me", and my needs - like many peoples - aren't standard.
Conclusion: what sets Firefox apart is that:
(a) an out-of-the-box, vanilla-install of Firefox is a fairly low-footprint, high-feature browser. It doesn't try to be all things to all people, and it doesn't suffer from bloat. It's made compromises to achieve it's relatively small size;
(b) it's extensible. It's small, but you can plug-in functionality. Self-selected bloat!
Off-topic, but wouldn't the time for /. to admit the metamod system doesn't work be after the moderation has been meta-modded? Or even after the post has been fully moderated? You replied after one mod. That's like getting the first person you see in the street to select the President.
Incidentally, I've already replied to the OP with a correction - but I certainly don't think we need to start attacking all moderators because one mod failed to RTFA, and will probably get hammered come meta-mod-time.
because it had just one Vacuum Tube
The beast was really imposing, It weighted more than 13 tons, held 5200 vacuum tubes.
The network is internal, not part of the Internet, so IPv4 should do - but the way Britain seems to change phone-numbering in order to cram a few more million phone users in...maybe IPv6 isn't that unreasonable!
Slightly off-topic, but when the USA and the USSR were planning to dock two space-craft for the first time, neither power would agree to their craft being "penetrated" by the other - if I remember correctly a "female-to-female" adaptor was the eventual diplomatic solution.
Ironically, the Soviet Union was reasonably progressive in terms of putting women in space.
Then it [patents on the technology] won't matter, because no-one else will use the technology and it'll just quietly fade away.
I wish this were true. My fear is, we'll get used to "pick-n-drop", it'll become indispensible, and then the submarine patents will emerge, faster than you can say "gif", "jpeg", "FAT", etc.
CCTV in the UK is massively useful, and shown to be a useful tool and deterent when dealing with crime.
Not trolling, but could you cite some evidence to support that? The (limited) areas I'm familiar with (Glasgow, parts of West of Scotland) don't appear any safer since the widespread introduction of CCTV, but I'd prefer to trust an academic study rather than my own - totally subjective - perception. So far, it seems to me like an excuse to spend tax-payers money to appear "tough on crime", while avoiding doing anything about being "tough on the causes of crime".
Attention US-Citizens! No one abroad has been looking to the US as a benchmark for political and social progress since about 1973. Sorry to disappoint you.
Maybe, but this "furriner" (Kiwi, resident in Scotland) still looks to US history as a Golden Age - one of the first (the first?) modern republics, overthrowing Imperialist rule, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution... the US may have stalled, but there are countries that still don't have a written constitution - I'm looking at you, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
The USA has never been perfect. What set it apart from other countries was that at least it tried. I hope it starts trying again.
In the UK camera were brought in as "a deterent". My local (Glasgow) cameras are a dark blue, that nicely blend in with the dull grey surroundings. They ain't visible, and they ain't detering. Needless to say, consumer groups are arguing that maybe, just maybe, speed cameras are a money-generating device, and that they should be painted - say - bright yellow if the government is seriosu about cuttign accidents.
And there was me thinking that the original poster just hadn't updated from the Good Old Days of the GPO!
(GPO = General Post Office, the fore-runner of British Telecom and the Royal Mail. Factoid: Tommy Flowers, the engineer who built Colossus, was a GPO employee)
Sure you could! I'll suggest right back that you're wrong. It sounds to me as if we have similar levels of expertise.
Yeah, the Ken Brown shot was cheap, and I apologise. I suspect we're less far apart in our views than I first assumed.
I lived in the Sultanate of Oman (eastern Arabian peninsula; east of Saudi Arabia) during the 80s. A number of Omanis told me that Christians and Jews (there were expatriate Jews in Oman, but no Israelis) were "people of the book", and should not be harmed.
When I studied history (in Europe) I learnt that during the Crusades, Muslims wouldn't fight Christians so they had to employ mercenaries and slaves to defend themselves.
The Muslim world was traditionally more tolerant of Jews that Inquisition-era Europe.
Bringing this back on-topic, could I suggest that your research resembles Ken Brown's?
(Disclaimer: not a Muslim, not an Arab, not an Israel-basher, not a terrorist)
I see it as a tax-code definition (otherwise they'd presumably just become a charitable foundation?), but I also don't see gentoo.org sitting down and deciding "let's become a not-for-profit so our CEO can get rich quick." I could be completely wrong, but my understanding of Gentoo is that they took this course for stability rather than greed.
Some troll^Wone ought to tell them that "not for profit" status is a terrible way to make money, then.
I think the real answer to the OP's question ("how long will it take to compile the documentation to make Gentoo a not-for-profit organization?") involves "emerge"...!
(Obligatory, uninformed anti-Gentoo flame: ...and it'll take a lot longer than six months ;)
GNU/Linux distros don't come with firewall enabled cause they don't need it
1. My distro (Mandrake) at least came with the Firewall enabled - enabeld on 9.1, still enabled when I upgraded to 10.0. I believe most other mainstream distros do have the firewall enabled by default;
2. Firewalls aren't just for stupid backdoor services that the vendor should have disabled - they're also for legitimate services that the end-user may need installed: P2P in many cases, BitTorrent (alright, that's strictly P2P, too), Apache (in my case), etc.