I don't like Kerry either, but the whole Jane Fonda thing is bullshit. All he did was appear at the same rally as her, and at the time, he had no way of knowing she was gonna go do the Hanoi thing two years later.
The link you provided is a real eye-opener. Sure, I always knew that those guys were interested in ruling the world, but I had NO IDEA they were so open about it...
OK, I use Macs every day, and I'm sure MacOS 10.4 will be an excellent system... but come on, "blojsom"? Who comes up with names like that? Somebody who thought that the word "blog" doesn't sound stupid enough on its own? I always thought Apple had better taste than that.
One-dimensional thinking in a ten-dimensional universe will just leave you going around in circles. "Extreme left" and "extreme right" are two opposite ends of the street, but it's still only ONE street. Don't let that street define the bounds of your mental map - otherwise you might one day find yourself run over by a truck barreling out of one of those side alleys that you never noticed before.
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I'm not really an expert on Linus' kernel development process, so maybe I'm missing something here... but from what I understand, they've ALWAYS kept track of where each file came from, and that information has always been publicly available. And their system might have problems, but compare it to companies that provide NO public documentation of their source code or its provenance.
MS monitoring and recording your online hotmail related activities
I'd assume that Hotmail (and all the other free email providers) already logs user activity. The only question is what they log, and how long do they keep the logs. Think about it for a second: would you run a publicly accessible server (any kind of server) and NOT have some sort of activity logging?
Admit it? Shit, when did I ever deny being a "/.'er nerd"? And I've known plenty of dark-skinned folks in my life, some who grew up in pretty bad environments, others who didn't. Not that this is particularly relevant.
The point that I was trying to make is that you're making yourself out to be an authority on subjects of which you have no first-hand knowledge, only published news reports. (So I guess I was half right on that one...) Reporters always distort reality, even under the best circumstances - sometimes the distortion is only due to a choice of which piece of information is worth reporting. And it's not really your statements I was objecting to, just your rude attitude and your absolute conviction that you're right.
Another thing... May I suggest that you're allowing your personal experiences to "color" your judgement? Out of all the black people in the Bronx (for example) only some are full-time violent outlaws. And only some of those are stupid or unlucky enough to get caught and convicted. Those are the ones that you got to party with for eight years. Not exactly a representative sample.
Absolutely right. This is guaranteed to turn into a PR nightmare for MS if they go through with it. Whether they win the case is irrelevant - what they're doing is taking a technical debate which they could win, and turning it into a political battle which they can't win.
According to one post on Lessig's site, MS-Brazil is now back-pedaling. (All the news sources are in Portugese, so I don't really know what's going on; news.google.com shows nothing except this/. story.)
Well if they all claim that they're below average we know it's not true
No, but if you have 99 people who each make 10,000 and 1 person who makes 1,000,000 then the average is 19,900. And 99% of the people are then below average.
If income distribution was totally linear within a given group, then exactly half the people would be below average. But in the real world, it's never like that. Which is why I'm less interested in average incomes (which this is what they're presenting here) than in median incomes.
Not to mention that Nikola Tesla was working on something like this 60 years ago. Look up "Philadelphia Project"; there's very little solid information, but a lot of very entertaining speculation.
The H-Bomb and Jet Propulsion sprang from the minds of German scientists
True about the jet propulsion, but the Nazis never had much of a nuclear program. According to Albert Speer, (minister of armaments from 1942 until the end of the war) basic research into nuclear physics was seriously lagging in Germany - mainly because the field was considered a "Jewish" science, so nobody in the academic world wanted to back it. Speer cancelled the nuke program in late 1942, reasoning that by the time they had a working weapon, the war would already be over.
No, the witches were real. The old religions of Northern Europe didn't disappear when Christianity came along - they just went underground. Although most of the stuff that the Church said about witches was pure fiction. And many (possibly most) victims of the witch hunts weren't witches at all, just people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The "communist threat" was also real, but many people in the West misunderstood that threat - both on the "left" and "right". George Orwell explained it all much better than I can, so I'd urge everyone to read Animal Farm, and pay special attention to the ending.
telnet::-nmbox will create a trace file of zero length named "mbox". If there was already a file by the same name then the pre-existing file will be silently deleted.
Nope. Tried it just now - all it does is open Terminal.app; no other effects that I can see.
Launching an executable from Java requires either access to a native library, or the Runtime.exec() method. By default, web applets can't do either, so they probably couldn't use this functionality at all. (Which is how it should be.) But I can't verify this without looking at the internal workings of the library.
Which brings me to my question: Where's the source code?? The download page only shows binary packages. Did I miss something?
You completely misunderstood what this library does. It is not a replacement for AWT/Swing/SWT (that is, a GUI widget library). From what I've seen, it's a set of high-level utilities to help a Java app communicate with the native desktop environment. For example, there's one function to open a URL in the user's default application. Also several classes for managing the desktop environment's file type associations. Until now, there's been no platform-independent way to do this in Java. (Though I still don't know just how platform-independent it is... they mention Windows, Linux, and Solaris - nothing about MacOS.)
I took a look at the page source on gamedev.net, and I seem to see a lot of lines that begin like this:
document.write('<SCR'+'IPT...
Which probably has something to do with it. What this suggests to me is that effective pop-up blocking should be implemented in the browser itself, rather than something that filters the HTML and passes it on to the browser.
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So "Third World" refers to Africa and Antarctica?
If they knew how to dial an international number, then you assumed they were 'legit'? What kind of logic is that?
I don't like Kerry either, but the whole Jane Fonda thing is bullshit. All he did was appear at the same rally as her, and at the time, he had no way of knowing she was gonna go do the Hanoi thing two years later.
The link you provided is a real eye-opener. Sure, I always knew that those guys were interested in ruling the world, but I had NO IDEA they were so open about it...
I sometimes describe my politics as being Green-Libertarian, or Conservative Anarchist, because I feel that will piss off the most people.
I'm partial to "anarchist theocrat" myself.
OK, I use Macs every day, and I'm sure MacOS 10.4 will be an excellent system... but come on, "blojsom"? Who comes up with names like that? Somebody who thought that the word "blog" doesn't sound stupid enough on its own? I always thought Apple had better taste than that.
in the United States goes from 10cm to 20cm, wheras the ruler for other nations goes from 0cm to 10cm.
This is the US, son, Land of the Free - so you can just take your newfangled "centimeters" system and go back to Russia.
One-dimensional thinking in a ten-dimensional universe will just leave you going around in circles. "Extreme left" and "extreme right" are two opposite ends of the street, but it's still only ONE street. Don't let that street define the bounds of your mental map - otherwise you might one day find yourself run over by a truck barreling out of one of those side alleys that you never noticed before.
I'm not really an expert on Linus' kernel development process, so maybe I'm missing something here... but from what I understand, they've ALWAYS kept track of where each file came from, and that information has always been publicly available. And their system might have problems, but compare it to companies that provide NO public documentation of their source code or its provenance.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constituti on.overview.html
Article I, section 2. That bit was later superseded by the 14th Amendment.
MS monitoring and recording your online hotmail related activities
I'd assume that Hotmail (and all the other free email providers) already logs user activity. The only question is what they log, and how long do they keep the logs. Think about it for a second: would you run a publicly accessible server (any kind of server) and NOT have some sort of activity logging?
Yes they do. They've had it for a few years. But they've never pushed it very energetically.
Yeah, but then you'd have to wait another year for the Mac version.
Admit it? Shit, when did I ever deny being a "/.'er nerd"? And I've known plenty of dark-skinned folks in my life, some who grew up in pretty bad environments, others who didn't. Not that this is particularly relevant.
The point that I was trying to make is that you're making yourself out to be an authority on subjects of which you have no first-hand knowledge, only published news reports. (So I guess I was half right on that one...) Reporters always distort reality, even under the best circumstances - sometimes the distortion is only due to a choice of which piece of information is worth reporting. And it's not really your statements I was objecting to, just your rude attitude and your absolute conviction that you're right.
Another thing... May I suggest that you're allowing your personal experiences to "color" your judgement? Out of all the black people in the Bronx (for example) only some are full-time violent outlaws. And only some of those are stupid or unlucky enough to get caught and convicted. Those are the ones that you got to party with for eight years. Not exactly a representative sample.
most Iraqis will still treat a Westerner well whereas most ghetto blacks might not
Admit it. You've never actually met any Iraqis, have you? Or any black people, for that matter?
Absolutely right. This is guaranteed to turn into a PR nightmare for MS if they go through with it. Whether they win the case is irrelevant - what they're doing is taking a technical debate which they could win, and turning it into a political battle which they can't win.
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According to one post on Lessig's site, MS-Brazil is now back-pedaling. (All the news sources are in Portugese, so I don't really know what's going on; news.google.com shows nothing except this
Well if they all claim that they're below average we know it's not true
No, but if you have 99 people who each make 10,000 and 1 person who makes 1,000,000 then the average is 19,900. And 99% of the people are then below average.
If income distribution was totally linear within a given group, then exactly half the people would be below average. But in the real world, it's never like that. Which is why I'm less interested in average incomes (which this is what they're presenting here) than in median incomes.
Not to mention that Nikola Tesla was working on something like this 60 years ago. Look up "Philadelphia Project"; there's very little solid information, but a lot of very entertaining speculation.
The H-Bomb and Jet Propulsion sprang from the minds of German scientists
True about the jet propulsion, but the Nazis never had much of a nuclear program. According to Albert Speer, (minister of armaments from 1942 until the end of the war) basic research into nuclear physics was seriously lagging in Germany - mainly because the field was considered a "Jewish" science, so nobody in the academic world wanted to back it. Speer cancelled the nuke program in late 1942, reasoning that by the time they had a working weapon, the war would already be over.
No, the witches were real. The old religions of Northern Europe didn't disappear when Christianity came along - they just went underground. Although most of the stuff that the Church said about witches was pure fiction. And many (possibly most) victims of the witch hunts weren't witches at all, just people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The "communist threat" was also real, but many people in the West misunderstood that threat - both on the "left" and "right". George Orwell explained it all much better than I can, so I'd urge everyone to read Animal Farm, and pay special attention to the ending.
As Andy Rooney said a long time ago: (this from a list of questions that he'd have liked to ask the president of the US)
- Who do you think is the smartest person in America?
- Why is it that the smartest person in America isn't President?
Because politics is now a subsidiary of the entertainment business.
telnet::-nmbox will create a trace file of zero length named "mbox". If there was already a file by the same name then the pre-existing file will be silently deleted.
Nope. Tried it just now - all it does is open Terminal.app; no other effects that I can see.
Very good question.
Launching an executable from Java requires either access to a native library, or the Runtime.exec() method. By default, web applets can't do either, so they probably couldn't use this functionality at all. (Which is how it should be.) But I can't verify this without looking at the internal workings of the library.
Which brings me to my question: Where's the source code?? The download page only shows binary packages. Did I miss something?
You completely misunderstood what this library does. It is not a replacement for AWT/Swing/SWT (that is, a GUI widget library). From what I've seen, it's a set of high-level utilities to help a Java app communicate with the native desktop environment. For example, there's one function to open a URL in the user's default application. Also several classes for managing the desktop environment's file type associations. Until now, there's been no platform-independent way to do this in Java. (Though I still don't know just how platform-independent it is... they mention Windows, Linux, and Solaris - nothing about MacOS.)