"..."Everything the Federal Government does is in the Metric system, "
Yeah and its a PITA!
THe FCC is good for this crap... every thing in the ULS tables is in !!(!(*@^$!^ ! non standard units and has to be converted back when I process it into my local version on MySQL system...add in fact that they don't clean up the input which allows for all sorts of crap including CR/LF in text fields! URRRGH The they export it in flat CSV files which then the CR/LF causes a new record... what a mess. Sanitize the input! Nope the FCC when questioned and reported to them says its perfectly acceptable...YEAH sure it is when your on the native DB2 servers at the FCC.... not when your dealing with the exported tables!
I really don't know why any agency in the US would do this... starts to explain the $600 hammers, $1000 toilet seats... at DOD.... you asked for it in some stupid non standard measure so of course it doesn't fit when you asked for a 2cm and you got a 2 inch one. Really makes NO sense for the US GOV to do this when most manufacturing in the US is still done in real standard units. No wonder this crap cost so much.. custom items!.
Wrong. Its getting close...but has a long way to go.. but also has made choices that have altered the direction of the project from the KDE3 roots to a point that a KDE3 person, ME, has problems.
Examples:
media://
Alleged "fake transparency" when an user even offered up a fix! At least make it a choice to use this.. Nope! Composting or no transparency for you! PUHLEASE. That crap should not be intergrated into the WM.. It you want to add it fine, but not intergated.
"The only voice of reason at the time (that I can remember) was Aaron Seigo - and he was the ONLY reason I kept coming back to KDE to try it out with each release. Good guy."
Your wrong on this in so many ways, so wrong. That ONE PERSON is the BIGGEST PROBLEM in KDE Land from start to finish. Its the functions not the cute, pretty wobly windows, and stupid spiny cubes!
*buntu land needs to RUN, not crawl, not walk, but RUN FAR AWAY from the disease that is gnome and monoboi's other crap...
But alas they still don't get it..."Unitiy....will require composting...."
Would you please QUIT with the stupid wobly windows, spinny cubes and other crap!
For a normal desktop KDE needs to be the choice, and yes I will be the first to get the tar, feather, and pitchforks out over the debacle that is and remains KDE4, unfortunately its still the better of the regular X WM's... For lighter weight LXDE, XFCE, etc. are great... just not for me..
If you want to see what a PROPER *buntu WITH KDE can look like then report to KMint and enjoy...
Well that FD's ISO rating just went to a 10, if its not there now..... and 10 IS BAD! You want to be a ISO 1 or as close to it as possible and there are very few of those! One MAJOR EASTERN US CITY doesn't qualify as 1!
Oh and EVERYONE AROUND this home will be getting a nice big FAT HOMEOWNERS RATE INCREASE thanks to this! Your homeowners insurance is based on the ISO rating, and with a 10 and this.... Get ready to pay up! EVERYONE!
Oh... and the lawsuit(s) I am sure are pending...I hope they put that FD out of business... it gives everyone in PS a bad name.
Nope. Champagne is a process that just so happens to be some spot in frogland that it originated in. Champagne is a GENERIC TERM for some also called sparkling wine. Same applies to port, sangria, merlot, bordeaux, or any other style of wine. End of story.
"US only cares about trademarks when it's to their benefit."
Nope, again. I am opposed to ALL TRADEMARKS, Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Patents of any kind or form.They all should 100% be invalidated.
Lets see have the functions you need are not supported by this or that browser and then throw in the crud from w and ie land and your left having to code things 2-3 ways and check browsers.
when the novel and miguel go and they remove all the crap from them, call me.
I am not interested in their plan on intergrating things. If I wanted tainted and more encumberance from crap I would continue to be hoodwinked by ms.
There plenty of paths of migration that do NOT involve dragging along all the BAD BAGGAGE from the w world to your new Linux life.
Server realm is already 100% LINUX. Start to finish. We don't do anything with w based servers, nothing. We never have, and never will.
The only area that still has a foothold in the w world is the desktop and that is changing, slowly, but changing. The first round of laptops go out next week with LINUX. Nope, no choices to return to something else. Those who are getting these have been told they are the first converts, they can either get with the program or look for employment elsewhere
I am want Linux to grow too, but the path novel and disease boi have is not the kind of growth or support we want or need!
"I guarantee that you have not been able to ignore advertising or cause it to have the opposite influence. You're fooling yourself."
Really.... To be influenced you have to SEE the ads...
I tirelessly use ad blocking techniques for online and other means ie: TV ala the DVR.... FF x60/
So how are these ads influencing me? at 60x I see about 1 second of them.. I couldn't tell you what the current ad schemes are for most companies. Throw in the fact that TCM has NO COMMERCIALS, FOXMO, NO commercials...
"What kind of computer do you use?"
I built it myself... and I've never seen ads for Asus, Abit, NVidia, AMD etc.. Of course with my blocking they would have a tough time getting to me.
"What kind of portable media player?"
None. Never had one, other than the radio in the car.. NO... ads = seek button... now I have Sirrius and NO ADS! Just 40,50,60, Sinatra! It has a CD player that I think will play CD's with MP3's on it... never looked.
" I guarantee that you chose them because of advertising. "
BZZT
"You know which components to buy when you build a computer because of advertising. "
No its because I went to Newegg did a search for NVidia 1GB RAM, dual DVI output. Then selected the one I liked from the cards listed. No ads involved.
I don't use ati (even though owned by AMD) for their stupid driver BS and dropping support of cards only 1-2 years old, plus even on winslobber their drivers sucked and getting tht the things to work was nothing but torture.
"You know which cereal to buy because of advertising."
That one I will give you to a point, since SAT AM cartoons were the staple... and PC's didn't even exist at that point in time... Although I've been a very good channel clicker even then.. how else to watch you toons when they schedule them opposite each other...
"Even if you buy the cheap store-brand of corn flakes, it's because the store-brand is piggy-backing off the effect that Kellogs' advertising had on you or you wouldn't even know to buy corn flakes."
Nope. I almost ALWAYS purchase store brand, period. Unless I've tried it and found it inferior to another product. Also its normally CHEAPER, BIGGER BAG and/or BOX most times, and I purchase what I like FLAVOR and SUGAR CONTENT WISE. No sugar then I probably am not buying!
"I bet you know the names of Apple's laptop computers."
Nope, don't use crapple. Next.
"I bet you know the names of the individual programs in Adobe's Creative Suite. "
No again... apt doesn't seem to know of this program either. So whats it do? A better package name to try in apt or Synaptic?
rec9140@rec9140-quad-desktop/proc $ sudo apt-get install adobecreativesuite [sudo] password for rec9140: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find package adobecreativesuite rec9140@rec9140-quad-desktop/proc $
"I bet you can tell me the names of car models made by the biggest car companies. All because of advertising."
Again, no. Lets see there's Plymouth, err.... Saturn....errr.....Pakcard.... err....Theres some more... wait.... Oh I give up...
"What it looks like to me is that, under the old system, there was one candidate being elected at a time. So, 25% of the people wanted a 'selector group' in office, apparently, but everyone else didn't."
And so that particular "selector group" needed a better candidate that had better solutions on ALL the issues not just the selector groups.
Just because "selector group" exists doesn't mean they get a seat a the "legislative body."
One person, one vote, the candidate that gets the MAJORITY Of the votes wins. Morality and fairness have nothing to do with life, except being fantasies that humans want to apply to areas they have no purpose.
" different social groups can vote for their party and get a fair share in the parliament"
Its NOT about a "fair share" in an election.
If the only basis is that the legislative body what ever it is be a "fair share" then there is no point to an election.
The basis of the legislative body then should be based on population
So if municipality x has a population of 10,000 its broken down as:
90% ghosts 1% ghouls 1% gremlins
And the legislative body has say 10 members then
9 Members are ghosts and 1 members is either a ghoul or gremlin? So how do you decide which gets the seat...Flip of a coin.
There is NOTHING FAIR or PROPORTIONATE in government, or elections. Time to get over that notion. Not even the founders of the US thought that, hence the Electoral College.
"There are better (more mathematically "fair") voting systems."
The only system that is broke really is the Electoral College.
Ye who gets the most votes WINS! Even if its 1 VOTE that decides the winner... (wasn't that a really bad movie) any way...
If there are 10,000 votes cast and the breakdown is:
5001 for candidate 1 4999 for candidate 2
Candidate 1 is the WINNER they got the most votes.
Candidate 2 can ask for a recount if they like, if the numbers come up the same... BYE BYE LOOSER!
Its a simple process. No advanced math, statistician needed.
Simple majority of votes. Done.
If need to fill x seats then starting with the highest vote getter - seat y of x, 2nd highest vote getter, seat z of x etc.. till all seats area exhausted.
Districts leads to jerrymandering and the only thing it does is ensure that some one who probably wasn't qualified to be elected to begin with gets elected simply because of race, ethnicity, hair color, age or how ever the district was rigged (jerrymandered).
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"..."Everything the Federal Government does is in the Metric system, "
Yeah and its a PITA!
THe FCC is good for this crap... every thing in the ULS tables is in !!(!(*@^$!^ ! non standard units and has to be converted back when I process it into my local version on MySQL system...add in fact that they don't clean up the input which allows for all sorts of crap including CR/LF in text fields! URRRGH The they export it in flat CSV files which then the CR/LF causes a new record ... what a mess. Sanitize the input! Nope the FCC when questioned and reported to them says its perfectly acceptable.. .YEAH sure it is when your on the native DB2 servers at the FCC.... not when your dealing with the exported tables!
I really don't know why any agency in the US would do this... starts to explain the $600 hammers, $1000 toilet seats... at DOD .... you asked for it in some stupid non standard measure so of course it doesn't fit when you asked for a 2cm and you got a 2 inch one. Really makes NO sense for the US GOV to do this when most manufacturing in the US is still done in real standard units. No wonder this crap cost so much.. custom items!.
"It was not ready, even though it is now."
Wrong. Its getting close...but has a long way to go.. but also has made choices that have altered the direction of the project from the KDE3 roots to a point that a KDE3 person, ME, has problems.
Examples:
media://
Alleged "fake transparency" when an user even offered up a fix! At least make it a choice to use this.. Nope! Composting or no transparency for you! PUHLEASE. That crap should not be intergrated into the WM.. It you want to add it fine, but not intergated.
"The only voice of reason at the time (that I can remember) was Aaron Seigo - and he was the ONLY reason I kept coming back to KDE to try it out with each release. Good guy."
Your wrong on this in so many ways, so wrong. That ONE PERSON is the BIGGEST PROBLEM in KDE Land from start to finish. Its the functions not the cute, pretty wobly windows, and stupid spiny cubes!
Art over function is not the solution!
"The crappier ideas will fall by the wayside, as they should...."
Then why is:
gnome
mono
WINE
Still around?
A +
*buntu land needs to RUN, not crawl, not walk, but RUN FAR AWAY from the disease that is gnome and monoboi's other crap...
But alas they still don't get it..."Unitiy....will require composting...."
Would you please QUIT with the stupid wobly windows, spinny cubes and other crap!
For a normal desktop KDE needs to be the choice, and yes I will be the first to get the tar, feather, and pitchforks out over the debacle that is and remains KDE4, unfortunately its still the better of the regular X WM's... For lighter weight LXDE, XFCE, etc. are great... just not for me..
If you want to see what a PROPER *buntu WITH KDE can look like then report to KMint and enjoy...
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1495
Welcome aboard Mr. Golden.....
Clearly this is a violation of numerous existing US laws prohibiting the proliferation of space technology outside the US.
Golden should be arrested, and tried as a traitor, period.
Well that FD's ISO rating just went to a 10, if its not there now..... and 10 IS BAD! You want to be a ISO 1 or as close to it as possible and there are very few of those! One MAJOR EASTERN US CITY doesn't qualify as 1!
Oh and EVERYONE AROUND this home will be getting a nice big FAT HOMEOWNERS RATE INCREASE thanks to this! Your homeowners insurance is based on the ISO rating, and with a 10 and this .... Get ready to pay up! EVERYONE!
Oh... and the lawsuit(s) I am sure are pending...I hope they put that FD out of business... it gives everyone in PS a bad name.
"It isn't a matter of what the basics are..."
Its a matter of ONE BASIC...
I do NOT want anything from ms, period.Full stop.
don't use ad, don't want it or its other siblings around.
> Champagne comes from champagne. End of story.
Nope. Champagne is a process that just so happens to be some spot in frogland that it originated in. Champagne is a GENERIC TERM for some also called sparkling wine. Same applies to port, sangria, merlot, bordeaux, or any other style of wine. End of story.
"US only cares about trademarks when it's to their benefit."
Nope, again. I am opposed to ALL TRADEMARKS, Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Patents of any kind or form.They all should 100% be invalidated.
ati was retired a long time ago...
They got put on semi retirement after dealing with their "all in wonder" cards and drivers on winidiot.
They officially got retired after their boneheaded move to drop support for cards 1-2 years old in the Linux driver tree.
So no loss really.. I am not purchasing AMD graphics, period.
AMD processors, YES. That is all I spec and want, but they can keep the graphics.
AMD you SHOULD HAVE PURCHASED NVidia! Thats the only video card allowed now.
Nope.
Oh.... Probably because I do not use it...
KMail just keeps trucking along.
Not an Oracle issue.
1) Bad programming by Eclipse
2) Its a win only issue, therefore
"Won't Fix ." Closed.
And this from the Company of ECMAScript!
Enough with the ECMAScript already!
Lets see have the functions you need are not supported by this or that browser and then throw in the crud from w and ie land and your left having to code things 2-3 ways and check browsers.
NO thanks.
Java or C/C++ is better.
I have to say this looks interesting... THANKS!
Why do we need to run those junky programs from another OS? ?
I see no need for this...
And NO games do NOT count...
SUSE was ONCE a GREAT DISTRO.
novell and miguel mono disease boi RUNIED IT!
Then add that deal with the devil, and thats it!
when the novel and miguel go and they remove all the crap from them, call me.
I am not interested in their plan on intergrating things. If I wanted tainted and more encumberance from crap I would continue to be hoodwinked by ms.
There plenty of paths of migration that do NOT involve dragging along all the BAD BAGGAGE from the w world to your new Linux life.
Server realm is already 100% LINUX. Start to finish. We don't do anything with w based servers, nothing. We never have, and never will.
The only area that still has a foothold in the w world is the desktop and that is changing, slowly, but changing. The first round of laptops go out next week with LINUX. Nope, no choices to return to something else. Those who are getting these have been told they are the first converts, they can either get with the program or look for employment elsewhere
I am want Linux to grow too, but the path novel and disease boi have is not the kind of growth or support we want or need!
Flash: New iPhone4 upgrade released on Friday see it here first....
http://www.tampascanner.info/Updatedidiotphone4.png
"I guarantee that you have not been able to ignore advertising or cause it to have the opposite influence. You're fooling yourself."
Really.... To be influenced you have to SEE the ads...
I tirelessly use ad blocking techniques for online and other means ie: TV ala the DVR.... FF x60/
So how are these ads influencing me? at 60x I see about 1 second of them.. I couldn't tell you what
the current ad schemes are for most companies. Throw in the fact that TCM has NO COMMERCIALS, FOXMO, NO commercials...
"What kind of computer do you use?"
I built it myself... and I've never seen ads for Asus, Abit, NVidia, AMD etc.. Of course with my blocking they would have a tough time getting to me.
"What kind of portable media player?"
None. Never had one, other than the radio in the car.. NO... ads = seek button... now I have Sirrius and NO ADS! Just 40,50,60, Sinatra! It has a CD player that I think will play CD's with MP3's on it... never looked.
" I guarantee that you chose them because of advertising. "
BZZT
"You know which components to buy when you build a computer because of advertising. "
No its because I went to Newegg did a search for NVidia 1GB RAM, dual DVI output. Then selected the one I liked from the cards listed. No ads involved.
I don't use ati (even though owned by AMD) for their stupid driver BS and dropping support of cards only 1-2 years old, plus even on winslobber their drivers sucked and getting tht the things to work was nothing but torture.
"You know which cereal to buy because of advertising."
That one I will give you to a point, since SAT AM cartoons were the staple... and PC's didn't even exist at that point in time... Although I've been a very good channel clicker even then.. how else to watch you toons when they schedule them opposite each other...
"Even if you buy the cheap store-brand of corn flakes, it's because the store-brand is piggy-backing off the effect that Kellogs' advertising had on you or you wouldn't even know to buy corn flakes."
Nope. I almost ALWAYS purchase store brand, period. Unless I've tried it and found it inferior to another product. Also its normally CHEAPER, BIGGER BAG and/or BOX most times, and I purchase what I like FLAVOR and SUGAR CONTENT WISE. No sugar then I probably am not buying!
"I bet you know the names of Apple's laptop computers."
Nope, don't use crapple. Next.
"I bet you know the names of the individual programs in Adobe's Creative Suite. "
No again... apt doesn't seem to know of this program either. So whats it do? A better package name to try in apt or Synaptic?
rec9140@rec9140-quad-desktop /proc $ sudo apt-get install adobecreativesuite /proc $
[sudo] password for rec9140:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package adobecreativesuite
rec9140@rec9140-quad-desktop
"I bet you can tell me the names of car models made by the biggest car companies. All because of advertising."
Again, no. Lets see there's Plymouth, err.... Saturn....errr.....Pakcard.... err....Theres some more... wait.... Oh I give up...
Hulu is still around? After their whole tit for tat for tit for tat with Boxee and others I voted with my eyeballs and LEFT.
I have not been back since...
I think it was a great idea and worked great for when I was someplace that had no DBS service available but data was...
The ads were not that big of deal.. but...
IF *** IF ** I am paying for it.... NOPE NO DICE ON THE ADS!
Wouldn't pay to begin with... but when I pay for HBO I don't expect to get ads during the show/movie. Same here.
The beginning of the end for Hulu.
"What it looks like to me is that, under the old system, there was one candidate being elected at a time. So, 25% of the people wanted a 'selector group' in office, apparently, but everyone else didn't."
And so that particular "selector group" needed a better candidate that had better solutions on ALL the issues not just the selector groups.
Just because "selector group" exists doesn't mean they get a seat a the "legislative body."
One person, one vote, the candidate that gets the MAJORITY Of the votes wins. Morality and fairness have nothing to do with life, except being fantasies that humans want to apply to areas they have no purpose.
"un-American" is a good thing."
Then "UN-[UK, Irish, French, Spanish, Italian, Swiss, Austrian, Canadian, Russian, Turkish, Lithuanian...." is a GOOD THING!
You don't need "parties."
Speak your piece on the issues and if your views are in sync with the voters you get their votes.
Abolish political parties, PAC's, and the rest of the their ilk and make the candidates run on their VIEWS alone.
Hi, I Am Joe Idiot and I am running for Mayor of Hooterville. This is what I am going to do: ...................
Candidates need to speak THEIR OPINION not the opinion of some bunch of unelectable puppeteers. See "If I'm Lucky" 1946.
" different social groups can vote for their party and get a fair share in the parliament"
Its NOT about a "fair share" in an election.
If the only basis is that the legislative body what ever it is be a "fair share" then there is no point to an election.
The basis of the legislative body then should be based on population
So if municipality x has a population of 10,000 its broken down as:
90% ghosts
1% ghouls
1% gremlins
And the legislative body has say 10 members then
9 Members are ghosts and 1 members is either a ghoul or gremlin? So how do you decide which gets the seat...Flip of a coin.
There is NOTHING FAIR or PROPORTIONATE in government, or elections. Time to get over that notion. Not even the founders of the US thought that, hence the Electoral College.
"Its just a way of saying I want candidate C to win but if it comes down to A and B then I choose B. In this scenario B gets your vote."
If I am voting for C, I am not voting for A or B."
No. That is communistic and wholly un-American in more ways than can be counted!
ONE VOTE. I vote for A. They don't get the majority of votes. TOO BAD, My choose looses.
"There are better (more mathematically "fair") voting systems."
The only system that is broke really is the Electoral College.
Ye who gets the most votes WINS! Even if its 1 VOTE that decides the winner... (wasn't that a really bad movie) any way...
If there are 10,000 votes cast and the breakdown is:
5001 for candidate 1
4999 for candidate 2
Candidate 1 is the WINNER they got the most votes.
Candidate 2 can ask for a recount if they like, if the numbers come up the same... BYE BYE LOOSER!
Its a simple process. No advanced math, statistician needed.
Simple majority of votes. Done.
If need to fill x seats then starting with the highest vote getter - seat y of x, 2nd highest vote getter, seat z of x etc.. till all seats area exhausted.
Districts leads to jerrymandering and the only thing it does is ensure that some one who probably wasn't qualified to be elected to begin with gets elected simply because of race, ethnicity, hair color, age or how ever the district was rigged (jerrymandered).
> First past the post or Single transferable vote?
Exactly what I outlined.
"First past the post "
Anything else and especially that single thing is COMMUNISTIC!
ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE. Non transferable. You vote for a loser, you loose. Too bad.