I realize that, but I guess my point is that I only want to be on the bleeding edge / latest release for a few select programs.
You want Gentoo. Build a stable system and then unmask the particular packages that you want to get a new version of. Then let your system rebuild them. If you want bleeding edge, then you can set free some of the packages that have been hard masked. But do so at your own risk. Regardless, it's Gentoo that you want.
Your illustrations are excellent, but their ties to definitions of atheist and agnostic a little fragile. Many people of your first point of view would call themselves agnostic and consider atheist to mean a third point of view you haven't listed which says "There is no basilisk" without the qualifiers of 'I may be wrong' or 'I believe'. There are plenty of atheists of this type. If you describe yourself as atheist, you may be considered such, whereas if you describe yourself as agnostic, you may be your second type, but you may also be the first type. It's a bit of a sliding scale, really.
It's telling that "lacking conviction" is considered a criticism. Sometimes it is a bad thing. But not always. Conviction from a position of ignorance doesn't sound good to me!
Yeah, but maybe if they keep hassling you, they'll eventually make you regret apologising and get you to behave in a way that they can be indignant about again. Because they love being indignant about something.
(Note: "They" does not refer to religious people. It refers to people that love to be indignant, examples of which can be found in most demographics).
Well the hard drive still has the trip from the media to the reader step. What the parent should have said is that with a hard drive, the reader can not easily be separated and replaced if it fails. In theory, the GP is right, but in practice, I see CDs fail frequently and hard drives very seldom (in terms of occasional archival use). I try to buy the best CD-Rs that I can (Verbatim, for what anecdotal evidence is worth), but I think the race to make CDs faster and faster has damaged them for durability whatever the brand.
I can think of few attitudes more likely to indicate you are not British yourself. Curry is regarded here, as one of the most British foods you can get. What matters that it originated elsewhere. Everything in Britain did!
I like the way The Register handle it. They basically have IT and technology divided up into various natural categories, and only run a story if it fits into one of them.
Presuming that ethnicity equates to a particular culture is racist, actually. If someone makes an assumption about your attitudes and beliefs based on your race, what else can it be? Now if you want to market something to Americans, you can make that case. If you want to market something to Mexican people or people from Mozambique, then maybe you have a case (though you're still stereotyping). But when you say something along the lines of Person X is Black, therefore they will identify with Culture Y, you're judging people by their skin colour, not who they are.
And personally, I refuse to fill out those ethnicity sections on forms - it's not relevant, so I wont add it.
I know you're joking, but I heard that if someone doesn't see things in there, if they say it's just an ink blot, that this is a strong indicator for insanity. Not that I necessarily agree with that, but it's interesting if that is what is thought - that seeing things as they actually indicates a state that society considers aberrant / delusional.
So I pay for some photographs be taken, someone else takes 3,300 of them (they're clearly indicated as not for taking) and uploads them all to Wikimedia under a Creative Commons license that they have no right to apply to someone else's work, and this is a case for jury nullification?
Really, who took them? The site is Slashdotted, so we don't know. If a visitor to the gallery took the photographs and uploaded them, then it sounds fair enough. If a photographer working for the gallery itself took them, then it seems reasonable to say that they're the gallery's. Actually, the site has just loaded and it seems that the user downloaded the photographs from the NPG's own website. So TFS is misleading again. Is it me or is the sole aim of Slashdot editors to provoke flame wars to increase traffic and ad-revenue on their site?
And this would be why people can't fricking troubleshoot.
I said "simply want to call a function". If you're debugging, then you look at it. If you're designing code, you just use the function. The very existence of a function instead of endlessly repeated code is an example of the principle of abstraction.
Funnily enough, everytime my package manager updated Firefox on Ubuntu, my chosen search engine (Yahoo) seems to get bumped back to Google. Google of course being one of the big funders of Mozilla. Same annoying thing. But apparently Microsoft's change only affects IE6, so who cares?
Abstraction is one of the foundations of higher thinking. There is something to be said for being able to do lower-level tasks, but you don't concern yourself with the internals of them when you want to treat them as discrete objects. Nobody thinks about the construction of an AND gate when they're designing something that uses AND gates. Nobody thinks about the internal workings of a method or function when they simply want to call it. In every area, the process is the same: You first learn the basic components, and then you assemble them into a composite of those components (whether a function, a muscial chord, a template in an MVC or whatever), and operate on a higher level.
It's been too many years since I've really worked with compilers directly, but to me this looks impressive. Can someone who is more up to date with the field tell me if this is an appropriate moment to go: "Woah!" Because I feel like it might be.
Well I did say that once he learnt PostgreSQL, he'd probably find that MySQL no longer met his needs simply because he realised what more was possible.;)
By the sounds of his other posts, he's not doing much more than using databases for a bit of data persistence for websites, in which case, admirer of PostgreSQL that I am, he's still probably right that MySQL meets his needs. It would open more doors for him if he knew PostgreSQL, of course. But equally he could be learning Python, perfecting his golf or playing with his kids. PostgreSQL is quite frankly, great. But he who fights fanboys must be careful, lest he himself becometh a fan boy.;)
PostgreSQL's feature list and reputation speak for itself. I prefer to evangelise gently.;)
I was about to predict some abuse coming your way, but I see it's already appeared. : /
If PostgreSQL is not for you, no problem, but seriously, just using pg_dump would be the proper way to do this and it seems a shame to change to a different database if that's the sole issue. </friendlycomment>
You have given what is, I believe, the most common reason for not switching: MySQL works well enough for what you need so it doesn't make sense to expend additional time and effort (you probably don't have much of the former) to learn something that you will only use for the same purposes. It makes sense.
But in a friendly response, I'll just mention that once you are familiar with PostgreSQL, you will be aware of what more you can do with it and that may lead to the second part of your logic (you will only do the same things with it) to become false. Because you'll find opportunities to do things in different ways that you may prefer.
Also, you can become one of us super-annoying people on Slashdot who keep talking about why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL.;) Really, you don't need to learn PostgreSQL if MySQL is meeting your needs. But you might find it fun, more useful than you might have thought, and you wont magically forget your MySQL knowledge so it's not as if you're compelled to seek out only jobs and projects that use PostgreSQL.
Just some general comments - not a dismissal of what you've said.
Your parent is right, though. Starter Edition wont be available retail. The only way you'll get it is through purchasing a device (i.e. netbook) with it already installed. So it really is just a set of three versions that someone buying Windows 7 must choose from. Not taking away that you were correct that there are other versions "out there", but my point is that there are only three versions, easily distinguished from each other by the purchaser by simple and clear feature differences, for them to choose from.
The feature sets are pretty logically broken down as well. Professional has everything Home has, plus XP mode, a domain joining wizard and a complete backup integrated. Ultimate is everything Professional has plus multi-language support and complete drive encryption. They really do separate out quite nicely from a customer point of view.
Well that makes sense, but I have never, ever heard the "complete" phrase. It sounds like your phrase was a joking continuation of the original "couldn't care less" which would explain why its a regional perculiarity. Stripped of the extension you supplied though, and because there is another phrase that requires your extension to separate the two, it just sounds like the speaker doesn't understand what they're saying.
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You want Gentoo. Build a stable system and then unmask the particular packages that you want to get a new version of. Then let your system rebuild them. If you want bleeding edge, then you can set free some of the packages that have been hard masked. But do so at your own risk. Regardless, it's Gentoo that you want.
The simple point is that he should have classed Debian Stable and Debian Unstable as separate distributions.
Your illustrations are excellent, but their ties to definitions of atheist and agnostic a little fragile. Many people of your first point of view would call themselves agnostic and consider atheist to mean a third point of view you haven't listed which says "There is no basilisk" without the qualifiers of 'I may be wrong' or 'I believe'. There are plenty of atheists of this type. If you describe yourself as atheist, you may be considered such, whereas if you describe yourself as agnostic, you may be your second type, but you may also be the first type. It's a bit of a sliding scale, really.
It's telling that "lacking conviction" is considered a criticism. Sometimes it is a bad thing. But not always. Conviction from a position of ignorance doesn't sound good to me!
Yeah, but maybe if they keep hassling you, they'll eventually make you regret apologising and get you to behave in a way that they can be indignant about again. Because they love being indignant about something.
(Note: "They" does not refer to religious people. It refers to people that love to be indignant, examples of which can be found in most demographics).
Well the hard drive still has the trip from the media to the reader step. What the parent should have said is that with a hard drive, the reader can not easily be separated and replaced if it fails. In theory, the GP is right, but in practice, I see CDs fail frequently and hard drives very seldom (in terms of occasional archival use). I try to buy the best CD-Rs that I can (Verbatim, for what anecdotal evidence is worth), but I think the race to make CDs faster and faster has damaged them for durability whatever the brand.
I can think of few attitudes more likely to indicate you are not British yourself. Curry is regarded here, as one of the most British foods you can get. What matters that it originated elsewhere. Everything in Britain did!
I like the way The Register handle it. They basically have IT and technology divided up into various natural categories, and only run a story if it fits into one of them.
Or if it has to do with sex.
Presuming that ethnicity equates to a particular culture is racist, actually. If someone makes an assumption about your attitudes and beliefs based on your race, what else can it be? Now if you want to market something to Americans, you can make that case. If you want to market something to Mexican people or people from Mozambique, then maybe you have a case (though you're still stereotyping). But when you say something along the lines of Person X is Black, therefore they will identify with Culture Y, you're judging people by their skin colour, not who they are.
And personally, I refuse to fill out those ethnicity sections on forms - it's not relevant, so I wont add it.
Bullshit. Oppressive regimes get overthrown. Not by people like you, of course.
The police have plenty of "power". What they have the right to do is something else. If you want a really good example of police doing as they please, watch the following link:
http://hamishcampbell.com/2009/03/investigation-of-policing-at-climate.html
Worth watching for a few minutes in to see some of the more absurd examples of the police abusing their power.
I know you're joking, but I heard that if someone doesn't see things in there, if they say it's just an ink blot, that this is a strong indicator for insanity. Not that I necessarily agree with that, but it's interesting if that is what is thought - that seeing things as they actually indicates a state that society considers aberrant / delusional.
So I pay for some photographs be taken, someone else takes 3,300 of them (they're clearly indicated as not for taking) and uploads them all to Wikimedia under a Creative Commons license that they have no right to apply to someone else's work, and this is a case for jury nullification?
Really, who took them? The site is Slashdotted, so we don't know. If a visitor to the gallery took the photographs and uploaded them, then it sounds fair enough. If a photographer working for the gallery itself took them, then it seems reasonable to say that they're the gallery's. Actually, the site has just loaded and it seems that the user downloaded the photographs from the NPG's own website. So TFS is misleading again. Is it me or is the sole aim of Slashdot editors to provoke flame wars to increase traffic and ad-revenue on their site?
And we should be bound by your "geek values" why?
I said "simply want to call a function". If you're debugging, then you look at it. If you're designing code, you just use the function. The very existence of a function instead of endlessly repeated code is an example of the principle of abstraction.
Funnily enough, everytime my package manager updated Firefox on Ubuntu, my chosen search engine (Yahoo) seems to get bumped back to Google. Google of course being one of the big funders of Mozilla. Same annoying thing. But apparently Microsoft's change only affects IE6, so who cares?
Abstraction is one of the foundations of higher thinking. There is something to be said for being able to do lower-level tasks, but you don't concern yourself with the internals of them when you want to treat them as discrete objects. Nobody thinks about the construction of an AND gate when they're designing something that uses AND gates. Nobody thinks about the internal workings of a method or function when they simply want to call it. In every area, the process is the same: You first learn the basic components, and then you assemble them into a composite of those components (whether a function, a muscial chord, a template in an MVC or whatever), and operate on a higher level.
It's been too many years since I've really worked with compilers directly, but to me this looks impressive. Can someone who is more up to date with the field tell me if this is an appropriate moment to go: "Woah!" Because I feel like it might be.
Well I did say that once he learnt PostgreSQL, he'd probably find that MySQL no longer met his needs simply because he realised what more was possible.
By the sounds of his other posts, he's not doing much more than using databases for a bit of data persistence for websites, in which case, admirer of PostgreSQL that I am, he's still probably right that MySQL meets his needs. It would open more doors for him if he knew PostgreSQL, of course. But equally he could be learning Python, perfecting his golf or playing with his kids. PostgreSQL is quite frankly, great. But he who fights fanboys must be careful, lest he himself becometh a fan boy.
PostgreSQL's feature list and reputation speak for itself. I prefer to evangelise gently.
I was about to predict some abuse coming your way, but I see it's already appeared. : /
If PostgreSQL is not for you, no problem, but seriously, just using pg_dump would be the proper way to do this and it seems a shame to change to a different database if that's the sole issue. </friendlycomment>
Yeah, but kind of funny though.
You have given what is, I believe, the most common reason for not switching: MySQL works well enough for what you need so it doesn't make sense to expend additional time and effort (you probably don't have much of the former) to learn something that you will only use for the same purposes. It makes sense.
But in a friendly response, I'll just mention that once you are familiar with PostgreSQL, you will be aware of what more you can do with it and that may lead to the second part of your logic (you will only do the same things with it) to become false. Because you'll find opportunities to do things in different ways that you may prefer.
Also, you can become one of us super-annoying people on Slashdot who keep talking about why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL.
Just some general comments - not a dismissal of what you've said.
Regards,
H.
"Lawyers don't sue people. People sue people."
Your parent is right, though. Starter Edition wont be available retail. The only way you'll get it is through purchasing a device (i.e. netbook) with it already installed. So it really is just a set of three versions that someone buying Windows 7 must choose from. Not taking away that you were correct that there are other versions "out there", but my point is that there are only three versions, easily distinguished from each other by the purchaser by simple and clear feature differences, for them to choose from.
The feature sets are pretty logically broken down as well. Professional has everything Home has, plus XP mode, a domain joining wizard and a complete backup integrated. Ultimate is everything Professional has plus multi-language support and complete drive encryption. They really do separate out quite nicely from a customer point of view.
Well that makes sense, but I have never, ever heard the "complete" phrase. It sounds like your phrase was a joking continuation of the original "couldn't care less" which would explain why its a regional perculiarity. Stripped of the extension you supplied though, and because there is another phrase that requires your extension to separate the two, it just sounds like the speaker doesn't understand what they're saying.