most libertarian and green voters lean closer to the dems
That's why there are separate parties: so D-like libertarians like a lot of Slashdot and R-like libertarians like myself can have a party that's a lot closer to our common beliefs instead of being shuffled off into the Democratic and Republican parties. The libertarian philosophy is not part of the linear left/right spectrum (that incidentally dates from the French Revolution, where there were about 3 major ideological factions, and the third was centrist).
Besides, I didn't consider Kerry that good a candidate, even if I did agree with the Democratic platform. Given the choice between Kerry and Badnarik, I would've undoubtedly chosen Badnarik. There's enough difference in philosophy that allows me to agree with the latter but not the former. I don't think it's fair for them to endorse Kerry.
On the other hand, I do agree that the third parties should concentrate first on local elections, where parties matter less and it's easier to find an independent (or barely partisan) candidate who fits the third-party ideology better; yet they should keep running some presidential candidate to keep their representation up.
I however would like to know that the votes were counted right. I like Bush being in office, but fair voting is more important than which politician holds the office.
It's not just rabid Kerryists that want the recounts, and acting like a rabid Bushist doesn't help your argument any. The point here is not who won, but how fairly.
Bush hasn't won yet. The Electoral College hasn't voted. Theoretically, if some electors didn't vote the way they were asked to, then Kerry could win.
Kerry felt that it was not worth for him pursuing his victory (because of the odds), so he conceded. That doesn't prevent him winning through others' efforts.
stop running for president, and help the Democratic campaign.
Why? I would never have voted for Kerry. I might have voted for Badnarik (too young to be eligible). The Democratic philosophy is as different from the Libertarian one as it is from the Republican -- so much so that I find myself more or less half-libertarian and half-Republican, but nowhere near Democratic.
You may as well say they should help the Republican campaign; the two seem to me ideologically closer, Bush himself notwithstanding.
Isn't Google going to open the email up to its search engine after some period of time?
What!? They wouldn't do that. Not because they're "not evil" or anything, but because 1) random people's e-mails will dilute search quality and 2) they will get sued out the window if they try to make these e-mails public, regardless of how you can interpret the user agreement.
For all but trivial cases, this is too difficult a problem.
It's just trivial cases that I want, actually. I've learned how to type, e.g., Integrate[Sin[x], {x, 0, Pi}] as Mathematica syntax, so I'd like that to be able to translate to Maxima syntax. Rule-based programming, Math'ca-specific stuff like Map[], Apply[], Compile[], and so forth are not what I'm looking for (yet; when I do, I'll learn the Maxima way of doing them).
You know what worries me? I've got remnants of a failed software Linux mod on my harddrive (a couple tarballs, and new Dashboard stuff renamed out of the way). I really don't think it's fair to ban an unmodded Xbox that has foreign files on it, if indeed they do file checking.
Not beer. The other three, yes, because there's no marginal cost. Beer, however, requires harvesting and processing to form each drink.
(Besides, there are possibly legitimate government reasons to tax it, even if it were free - tax would drive the price higher, so demand might become less, and drunkenness hopefully becomes less common.)
We've got talented graphic designers among us; get them to design a nice window interface, and then implement this one skin for as many display systems as we can. (Use an open interface so another graphic design can plug in easily.) Too often, the display system is unprofessional at best and confusing at worst.
The rest of ReactOS. Sure, it's not philosophically pure, but it'll help a long way in OSS adoption to have a Free operating system that's binary-compatible with MS Windows. E.g., in our school system, we've standardized on a particular gradekeeping software, and I cannot forsee the adoption of Linux partially for this reason, that InteGrade won't run on Linux (and WINE seems, by its basic premise of pseudoemulation, too potentially unstable for the administration to trust with grades). Someting that can run InteGrade directly has a much better chance of getting adopted.
Oh, and with MS's free-as-in-beer DirectX drivers, it may possibly play Windows games without rebooting into a spare Windows partition. Eventually, we'd want to reimplement the DirectX API, but ReactOS is at an advantage here as it will be able to run MS DirectX itself.
A version of Maxima that's user-friendly, has a reasonable pretty-printing IDE, has Mathematica/Maple compatibility mode, has good online help, etc.
Something that will pretty-print an equation in a given format, either TeX, MathML, or just well-formed math expressions with written functions for sqrt(), etc., and will turn the output into PNG. This would be so nice to hook up to an instant messenger to discuss math problems and such. (Yeah, I'm a math-team nerd.)
I have a Macintosh and I've seen no good modern mapping software for either Mac or for OSS Unix-likes (I don't mind BSD/X Window). In theory, it should be easy to take the USGS TIGER roadmap data set and combine it with local road data from governments and user-submitted manual road additions.
Especially if it's open source, there are some interesting possibilities with it: automatically download USGS's free satellite photos (probably hosted by a certain company's TerraServer), add GPS tracking and maybe automatic road additions, add routing and proper speed-limit data, make a nice 3D perspective view from some point, etc.
If OOo Impress gets a bit more polished and a bit more capable (even more than PPT) with respect to custom animation, especially motion paths and the like, it will probably suffice. It has an "Export to SWF" option. I've done some cheesy yet impressive Flash-like animations in Microsoft PowerPoint, and I know OOo can support everything I used.
Maybe Impress should be further developed with this goal in mind, in addition to presentation-making.
is a troll post, like anything that irrelevantly attacks Bush.
underpants gnomes, and alien overlords
are funny, unlike your posts.
If you need an excuse to take the piss out of the government, you're screwed.
Wait, so you're just attacking the government for no reason at all? Thanks, you proved my point for me.
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My first-hour teacher: "Is it a senior's skip day today or something?" Me: "No, it's the release of the video game Halo 2."
My third-hour teacher: "I can't understand all the fuss about this Halo." Me: "Basically, it's a run around and shoot aliens game, but it's more or less the best run-around-and-shoot-aliens game released in the past few years."
Oh, the irony of a famous violent video game being released on the anniversary of the Armistice of WWI.
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I would definitely consider it cheating, since Xbox Halo has slight auto-aim because of the inherent inaccuracy of differential-movement thumbsticks, and you're taking advantage of the auto-aim without the penalty of the thumbstick.
However, you're probably just hurting yourself, since many of the other controls (thumbsticks, movement, etc.) are continuous, and you may be at a disadvantage on a keyboard/mouse combo. Besides, the auto-aim would only be cheating if you ignore the enhanced accuracy of the mouse - if you aim like a PC FPS, you're penalizing yourself by worrying about that, and if you aim considering auto-aim, there's no advantage to using a mouse.
Add a bookmark manually with the URL the same as you described (using %s). Go to its properties in Bookmark Manager, and under Keyword, type your keyword.
translate French to English (fr = http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?lp=fr_en&urltext =%s), you can change the lp variable to change the languages
US Code (usc = http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/%s.html) so usc 17/107 would be 17 USC 107, the fair use section
in addition to "dns" to send the DynDNS.org HTTP update request and "/." for the Slashdot auto-login URL in Preferences; these two don't use %s or arguments.
Republicans are stupid enough to win an election and still feel like they lost. like you:)
I'm not a Republican. I felt like we lost when Bush won. I just would've felt like I lost more if anyone else won. I didn't see a candidate I actually liked.
Have you bought into the Skype technology so much such that you are willing to ignore the major advantage of VoIP, that being reduced call costs ? I think that's what the definition of a "zealot" might be - somebody who believes in something so much that they are willing to ignore the reality of why something exists in the first place.
I have not used Skype. They look interesting, though.
2.5 US cents/min is reduced cost, and the price might be fair for the quality they're offering.
I fear that an open network would have poor audio quality and responsiveness. I don't believe in Skype in particular, just in well-done, commerical and thus controlled VoIP for a reasonable price, possibly as a subset (and a clearly separable subset) of an open network, if possible.
If given the choice, free, of course. My point is that no true innovations come from the freeware world; it's the commercial businesses that innovate. A while later, the free stuff usually comes, but it isn't entirely fair to leech off of their development like that.
Exactly why did you bother modding us as offtopic? The points would've been better used elsewhere, and if you bothered to pay attention to the thread, you'd've realized there's supposed to be humor at work here.
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There are no OSS hackers in Microsoft! The developers are commiting suicide at the gates of Redmond!
We have no DRMs here; we've let Justice Department inspectors through!
Maybe not. I got a better suggestion:
Interbird.
Honestly, I think it might just work. "Internet Firefox" would work also, although it's harder to rationalize.
most libertarian and green voters lean closer to the dems
That's why there are separate parties: so D-like libertarians like a lot of Slashdot and R-like libertarians like myself can have a party that's a lot closer to our common beliefs instead of being shuffled off into the Democratic and Republican parties. The libertarian philosophy is not part of the linear left/right spectrum (that incidentally dates from the French Revolution, where there were about 3 major ideological factions, and the third was centrist).
Besides, I didn't consider Kerry that good a candidate, even if I did agree with the Democratic platform. Given the choice between Kerry and Badnarik, I would've undoubtedly chosen Badnarik. There's enough difference in philosophy that allows me to agree with the latter but not the former. I don't think it's fair for them to endorse Kerry.
On the other hand, I do agree that the third parties should concentrate first on local elections, where parties matter less and it's easier to find an independent (or barely partisan) candidate who fits the third-party ideology better; yet they should keep running some presidential candidate to keep their representation up.
Face it, BUSH WON.
And I am thankful.
You may not like it
but I do.
changing ohio STILL won't win it for Kerry.
Good.
I however would like to know that the votes were counted right. I like Bush being in office, but fair voting is more important than which politician holds the office.
It's not just rabid Kerryists that want the recounts, and acting like a rabid Bushist doesn't help your argument any. The point here is not who won, but how fairly.
Bush hasn't won yet. The Electoral College hasn't voted. Theoretically, if some electors didn't vote the way they were asked to, then Kerry could win.
Kerry felt that it was not worth for him pursuing his victory (because of the odds), so he conceded. That doesn't prevent him winning through others' efforts.
stop running for president, and help the Democratic campaign.
Why? I would never have voted for Kerry. I might have voted for Badnarik (too young to be eligible). The Democratic philosophy is as different from the Libertarian one as it is from the Republican -- so much so that I find myself more or less half-libertarian and half-Republican, but nowhere near Democratic.
You may as well say they should help the Republican campaign; the two seem to me ideologically closer, Bush himself notwithstanding.
Isn't Google going to open the email up to its search engine after some period of time?
What!? They wouldn't do that. Not because they're "not evil" or anything, but because 1) random people's e-mails will dilute search quality and 2) they will get sued out the window if they try to make these e-mails public, regardless of how you can interpret the user agreement.
For all but trivial cases, this is too difficult a problem.
It's just trivial cases that I want, actually. I've learned how to type, e.g., Integrate[Sin[x], {x, 0, Pi}] as Mathematica syntax, so I'd like that to be able to translate to Maxima syntax. Rule-based programming, Math'ca-specific stuff like Map[], Apply[], Compile[], and so forth are not what I'm looking for (yet; when I do, I'll learn the Maxima way of doing them).
You know what worries me? I've got remnants of a failed software Linux mod on my harddrive (a couple tarballs, and new Dashboard stuff renamed out of the way). I really don't think it's fair to ban an unmodded Xbox that has foreign files on it, if indeed they do file checking.
Not beer. The other three, yes, because there's no marginal cost. Beer, however, requires harvesting and processing to form each drink.
(Besides, there are possibly legitimate government reasons to tax it, even if it were free - tax would drive the price higher, so demand might become less, and drunkenness hopefully becomes less common.)
Sorry, didn't see the title. He did ask about Director and Flash, though.
We've got talented graphic designers among us; get them to design a nice window interface, and then implement this one skin for as many display systems as we can. (Use an open interface so another graphic design can plug in easily.) Too often, the display system is unprofessional at best and confusing at worst.
The rest of ReactOS. Sure, it's not philosophically pure, but it'll help a long way in OSS adoption to have a Free operating system that's binary-compatible with MS Windows. E.g., in our school system, we've standardized on a particular gradekeeping software, and I cannot forsee the adoption of Linux partially for this reason, that InteGrade won't run on Linux (and WINE seems, by its basic premise of pseudoemulation, too potentially unstable for the administration to trust with grades). Someting that can run InteGrade directly has a much better chance of getting adopted.
Oh, and with MS's free-as-in-beer DirectX drivers, it may possibly play Windows games without rebooting into a spare Windows partition. Eventually, we'd want to reimplement the DirectX API, but ReactOS is at an advantage here as it will be able to run MS DirectX itself.
On the same subject:
A version of Maxima that's user-friendly, has a reasonable pretty-printing IDE, has Mathematica/Maple compatibility mode, has good online help, etc.
Something that will pretty-print an equation in a given format, either TeX, MathML, or just well-formed math expressions with written functions for sqrt(), etc., and will turn the output into PNG. This would be so nice to hook up to an instant messenger to discuss math problems and such. (Yeah, I'm a math-team nerd.)
I have a Macintosh and I've seen no good modern mapping software for either Mac or for OSS Unix-likes (I don't mind BSD/X Window). In theory, it should be easy to take the USGS TIGER roadmap data set and combine it with local road data from governments and user-submitted manual road additions.
Especially if it's open source, there are some interesting possibilities with it: automatically download USGS's free satellite photos (probably hosted by a certain company's TerraServer), add GPS tracking and maybe automatic road additions, add routing and proper speed-limit data, make a nice 3D perspective view from some point, etc.
If OOo Impress gets a bit more polished and a bit more capable (even more than PPT) with respect to custom animation, especially motion paths and the like, it will probably suffice. It has an "Export to SWF" option. I've done some cheesy yet impressive Flash-like animations in Microsoft PowerPoint, and I know OOo can support everything I used.
Maybe Impress should be further developed with this goal in mind, in addition to presentation-making.
goat.cx
is a troll post, like anything that irrelevantly attacks Bush.
underpants gnomes, and alien overlords
are funny, unlike your posts.
If you need an excuse to take the piss out of the government, you're screwed.
Wait, so you're just attacking the government for no reason at all? Thanks, you proved my point for me.
My first-hour teacher: "Is it a senior's skip day today or something?"
Me: "No, it's the release of the video game Halo 2."
My third-hour teacher: "I can't understand all the fuss about this Halo."
Me: "Basically, it's a run around and shoot aliens game, but it's more or less the best run-around-and-shoot-aliens game released in the past few years."
Oh, the irony of a famous violent video game being released on the anniversary of the Armistice of WWI.
I would definitely consider it cheating, since Xbox Halo has slight auto-aim because of the inherent inaccuracy of differential-movement thumbsticks, and you're taking advantage of the auto-aim without the penalty of the thumbstick.
However, you're probably just hurting yourself, since many of the other controls (thumbsticks, movement, etc.) are continuous, and you may be at a disadvantage on a keyboard/mouse combo. Besides, the auto-aim would only be cheating if you ignore the enhanced accuracy of the mouse - if you aim like a PC FPS, you're penalizing yourself by worrying about that, and if you aim considering auto-aim, there's no advantage to using a mouse.
My links include:
- Wikipedia (w = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s)
- Dictionary.com (d = http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s)
- PHP help (php = http://php.net/%s)
- translate French to English (fr = http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?lp=fr_en&urltex
t =%s), you can change the lp variable to change the languages
- US Code (usc = http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/%s.html) so usc 17/107 would be 17 USC 107, the fair use section
in addition to "dns" to send the DynDNS.org HTTP update request and "/." for the Slashdot auto-login URL in Preferences; these two don't use %s or arguments.Republicans are stupid enough to win an election and still feel like they lost. like you :)
I'm not a Republican. I felt like we lost when Bush won. I just would've felt like I lost more if anyone else won. I didn't see a candidate I actually liked.
Have you bought into the Skype technology so much such that you are willing to ignore the major advantage of VoIP, that being reduced call costs ? I think that's what the definition of a "zealot" might be - somebody who believes in something so much that they are willing to ignore the reality of why something exists in the first place.
I have not used Skype. They look interesting, though.
2.5 US cents/min is reduced cost, and the price might be fair for the quality they're offering.
I fear that an open network would have poor audio quality and responsiveness. I don't believe in Skype in particular, just in well-done, commerical and thus controlled VoIP for a reasonable price, possibly as a subset (and a clearly separable subset) of an open network, if possible.
If given the choice, free, of course. My point is that no true innovations come from the freeware world; it's the commercial businesses that innovate. A while later, the free stuff usually comes, but it isn't entirely fair to leech off of their development like that.
To the moderator...
Exactly why did you bother modding us as offtopic? The points would've been better used elsewhere, and if you bothered to pay attention to the thread, you'd've realized there's supposed to be humor at work here.