sexual crime is as much of or more of a problem than crack to me.
Rape is an assault, child abuse is an assault etc...
crack is crack. if you wanna get F'ed up on crack thats fine, at least you're doing it to yourself.
I don't condone crack, or violent sex, or a lot of things, but discounting sex as a problem is showing a blindness. Parents have the right to keep porn away from children. It's proven that more sexual contact at younger ages cerates more sex offenders and more emotional problems.
Porn is usually sick and in poor taste. Don't compare us to Europe where anything goes. Just because they are doing it doesn't make it right.
Censor the obvious because that's easy to do and will prevent a lot of porn.
Compliment that with posted signs saying that "Porn is not allowed, violaters will be asked to leave.
Compliment that with a system that logs all traffic and have someone randomly hit sites in the logs. ban the bad sites.
Not too much, not too hard, and effective.
I really think too much is bad. We tend to be so willing to let a computer be responsible for and do the work that we should be doing ourselves. A responsible and alert laundromat attendant can keep porn to a non-existent level. A computer will fail inevitably.
One thing that I've got say for Americans is that we DO stuff. We're competitive, we are smart and innovative, we do more than talk, we DO.
Setting something up in the USA doesn't mean it's US centralist, it means we want it here, and why shouldn't we have it? US based companies started the PC industry. We're just continuing the good work.
you are an idiot. scsi isn't dead yet... and how is USB compared to scsi? LOL gimma break. if USB were so great, why don't we have usb cards with 10k rpm drives attached? HMMmmmm?
The benefit of scsi comes directly from removing the i/o from the system. That's why an ATA-66/100 card smokes so fast.
why the hell am I trying to explain the difference to you? you're clueless!
I like the thought of them doing something big. Realistically, in the world of freaky chinese and North Korean nuclear psychos, a country like India is rpetty good. They speak english and have a democratic government, they are also the international hamsters, (harmless as hamsters)
Indians aren't stupid either, this is betetr than pakistan and the other Jihad type nations who can't possibly get neat technology without threatening people with it.
SO what we are saying is that in order for a language to be "good", that it MUST be submited to a standards organization.... well I'll be a monkey's uncle, but C# is not portable. so what do I care who said it was standard? I think MS makes great languages, but they miss out on portability. If it was portable, I'd start using C#. MS locks stuff to windows, and that would be ok if windows wasn't so crappy itself....
SO, the difference is that Java is here, it's good, it works, and it's portable. C# is not.
First off, that is HIS opinion. I'm sure you have opinions that sucks and/or are VERY stupid. Opinions are not up for debate, so shut the pie-hole. Second, he has some very valid points, these are things that you MIGHT know if you were a Java programmer (are you??) If you are, then why the rabid defense? Java is great, and it looks like C# is pretty slick too, especially compared to C++.
Your comment seems to stem from a reallly bad day, or from a lack of maturity, or maybe just just a very high temper.
But then again, your opinion that CmdrTaco sucks is your own...
It looks to me like he wants "formal" and "formalized" testing and coding. That's just about as irrelevant as saying that the coders must not drink coffee and must wear purple zoot suits. Code is code. If it works well it works well. The end user doesn't care at all about who wrote it wearing what or in what environment it was written. Open source is open. that means it's a TEAM of people working on it (the good ole, more minds makes better code idea) More coders means more ideas, more coders also means more testing and more code review.
if Windows was open source, it would not be released with 65k bugs.
People can keep putting down open source and the excellent products that derive from open source, but open source will continue to thrive. these open source products that keep the web running will still be the best.
limiting your code to "formalized" yadda yadda blah blah blah will not make a better product in less time.
These were not "silly" questions at all. Weird becomes normal when everything around it is weird. These silly questions fit perfectly into a Douglas Adams interview.
and I'm sorry, but PC's don't cost $1000 apiece, ESPECIALLY when a large company buys them in quantity. Add the fact that they have processors, not full machines (no cd, monitor, etc...)
I certainly hope someone can smack the DVD industry. Never underestimate the industry's ability to give consumers the fat shaft as often as humanly possible.
It doesn't matter what's in the fine print. Yes I read it, BUT it doesn't matter. Web surfers are fickle, ADD type people. They only read headlines. If the headlines say MP3's are making one ka-zillion poor people in Gondwonaland die every day, then people will automatically hate mp3's and those "evil", nasty, bad young people that distribute them.
Telling the truth is pointless unless you do it aloud. If I mutter an apology under my breath, then it is absolutely meaningless to the person who needed to hear it.
what a crock. I DL, I listen. If it's good, I DL more. If it's still good, I buy. Otherwise I delete the crappy band and start over at step one.
I buy about a cd a month because I can make an educated choice. Industry always flips out when the consumer actually gains a tiny little foothold somewhere. Napster gives the consumer the chance to not buy a cd for one song, then realize that every other song sucks.
Instead of whining, why doesn't the music industry embrace technology? Why not embrace the new and very powerful MODERN way of making money. Every other industry is picking up the pace, but the music industry is sitting back, suing, whining, and belly-aching.
If they don't want to play in the real world, they WILL lose profit, but it's certainly not our fault.
I've tried so many different distros. I still use Redhat. someone making money (God forbid) is not the equivalent of someone "taking over the world". Redhat has a great distro, let them profit from their work. please.
These puppies can be sooo useful, but they gotta be cheap, otherwise I can buy a couple more CTX cheapo boxes for $300. At least those are chip/slot/ram upgradable. MP3 server frontends, In-car mp3 players, X-box screens. There are so many uses. I'd buy more than one for sure.
I notice always when running gnome and other X UIs that they are slow. Mouse movements are choppy at times, incredibly slow redrawing, etc, even using a nice video card. Win98 runs fine on a mid-end machine with 32mb, why doesn't gnome?
This is by no means a complaint, just wondering. gnome is by far the most usable linux UI I've used. Is
I'm required to work 45 hours minimum. and I usually do a few more than that. this is every single week all year long. The government has no clue (as usual).
As well, when I have something that I must do in one sitting, I work from home to make sure things get done on time.
It seems strange to me the numbers they are reporting. I work for a law firm, and in research and polling, words matter. how you word something will totally change the results of the poll. I can't see how Americans would want to vote in another Democrat for a few years after the crap that Slick Willy has put us thru.
I'm glad we aren't relying on these internet guesses to actually elect officials.
I'm a liberal as the next guy, but I've seen the stuff here in NC that you can get thru the library. There are adults here hitting porn sites and printing out pics and porn related articles at the library while sitting next to children. The children can get to it too.
if I was a parent I'd be goin nuts. If a library isn't safe for a kid, what is? Librarys are funded by MY pocket, the least they can do is not allow porn. at least. as far as "kids right" go, well I've seen that used for everything.. if a hamster wellness group saw a dead hamster they could riot for "hamster's rights" too... thats just a lousy excuse to not do their job right.
porn does not belong in a publically funded place. much less a publically place that is frequented by kids.
sounds like your typical Win9x class at your local community college. First, they explain what a keyboard is and how to use it, then some basic navigation commands, and the user goes home with a small $.10 certificate they can hang and say they know Linux.
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sexual crime is as much of or more of a problem than crack to me.
Rape is an assault, child abuse is an assault etc...
crack is crack. if you wanna get F'ed up on crack thats fine, at least you're doing it to yourself.
I don't condone crack, or violent sex, or a lot of things, but discounting sex as a problem is showing a blindness. Parents have the right to keep porn away from children. It's proven that more sexual contact at younger ages cerates more sex offenders and more emotional problems.
Porn is usually sick and in poor taste. Don't compare us to Europe where anything goes. Just because they are doing it doesn't make it right.
Fook
Censor the obvious because that's easy to do and will prevent a lot of porn.
Compliment that with posted signs saying that "Porn is not allowed, violaters will be asked to leave.
Compliment that with a system that logs all traffic and have someone randomly hit sites in the logs. ban the bad sites.
Not too much, not too hard, and effective.
I really think too much is bad. We tend to be so willing to let a computer be responsible for and do the work that we should be doing ourselves. A responsible and alert laundromat attendant can keep porn to a non-existent level. A computer will fail inevitably.
Fook
One thing that I've got say for Americans is that we DO stuff. We're competitive, we are smart and innovative, we do more than talk, we DO.
Setting something up in the USA doesn't mean it's US centralist, it means we want it here, and why shouldn't we have it? US based companies started the PC industry. We're just continuing the good work.
Don't take it personally.
Fook
you are an idiot. scsi isn't dead yet... and how is USB compared to scsi? LOL gimma break. if USB were so great, why don't we have usb cards with 10k rpm drives attached? HMMmmmm?
The benefit of scsi comes directly from removing the i/o from the system. That's why an ATA-66/100 card smokes so fast.
why the hell am I trying to explain the difference to you? you're clueless!
I like the thought of them doing something big.
Realistically, in the world of freaky chinese and North Korean nuclear psychos, a country like India is rpetty good. They speak english and have a democratic government, they are also the international hamsters, (harmless as hamsters)
Indians aren't stupid either, this is betetr than pakistan and the other Jihad type nations who can't possibly get neat technology without threatening people with it.
Fook
SO what we are saying is that in order for a language to be "good", that it MUST be submited to a standards organization.... well I'll be a monkey's uncle, but C# is not portable. so what do I care who said it was standard? I think MS makes great languages, but they miss out on portability. If it was portable, I'd start using C#. MS locks stuff to windows, and that would be ok if windows wasn't so crappy itself....
SO, the difference is that Java is here, it's good, it works, and it's portable. C# is not.
Fook
First off, that is HIS opinion. I'm sure you have opinions that sucks and/or are VERY stupid. Opinions are not up for debate, so shut the pie-hole. Second, he has some very valid points, these are things that you MIGHT know if you were a Java programmer (are you??) If you are, then why the rabid defense? Java is great, and it looks like C# is pretty slick too, especially compared to C++.
Your comment seems to stem from a reallly bad day, or from a lack of maturity, or maybe just just a very high temper.
But then again, your opinion that CmdrTaco sucks is your own...
Fook
AMEN
Not designed by a suit with no clue, in an office far far away in gondwonaland.
Fook
It looks to me like he wants "formal" and "formalized" testing and coding.
That's just about as irrelevant as saying that the coders must not drink coffee and must wear purple zoot suits. Code is code. If it works well it works well. The end user doesn't care at all about who wrote it wearing what or in what environment it was written. Open source is open. that means it's a TEAM of people working on it (the good ole, more minds makes better code idea)
More coders means more ideas, more coders also means more testing and more code review.
if Windows was open source, it would not be released with 65k bugs.
People can keep putting down open source and the excellent products that derive from open source, but open source will continue to thrive. these open source products that keep the web running will still be the best.
limiting your code to "formalized" yadda yadda blah blah blah will not make a better product in less time.
Fook
These were not "silly" questions at all. Weird becomes normal when everything around it is weird.
These silly questions fit perfectly into a Douglas Adams interview.
Fook
you've got a nice site man... those are some neat eclipse pics.
Fook
and I'm sorry, but PC's don't cost $1000 apiece, ESPECIALLY when a large company buys them in quantity. Add the fact that they have processors, not full machines (no cd, monitor, etc...)
Google makes a nice search engine.
good for them, and RedHat.
Fook
I don't say java just because I do it. I say it because it's a middle range language.
If you learn java, VB is easy. Cold Fusion is easy. The syntax is similar to C. It really has a great sense of programming logic to it.
Java is great online, it has inheritance (woohoo!), networking built in, it's multi-threaded, it's FREE, it's growing so rapidly.
Java is expanding into neat stuff like speech recognition, telephony API, JavaTv API, RMI (remote method invocation), embedded stuff, OS work, (cute mascot), etc etcetc...
java is free, abundant, and useable.
Fook!
I certainly hope someone can smack the DVD industry. Never underestimate the industry's ability to give consumers the fat shaft as often as humanly possible.
Fook
It doesn't matter what's in the fine print. Yes I read it, BUT it doesn't matter.
Web surfers are fickle, ADD type people. They only read headlines. If the headlines say MP3's are making one ka-zillion poor people in Gondwonaland die every day, then people will automatically hate mp3's and those "evil", nasty, bad young people that distribute them.
Telling the truth is pointless unless you do it aloud. If I mutter an apology under my breath, then it is absolutely meaningless to the person who needed to hear it.
This is a fact.
I like the idea of using the Onion as a "news" source lol!
what a crock.
I DL, I listen. If it's good, I DL more. If it's still good, I buy. Otherwise I delete the crappy band and start over at step one.
I buy about a cd a month because I can make an educated choice. Industry always flips out when the consumer actually gains a tiny little foothold somewhere. Napster gives the consumer the chance to not buy a cd for one song, then realize that every other song sucks.
Instead of whining, why doesn't the music industry embrace technology? Why not embrace the new and very powerful MODERN way of making money. Every other industry is picking up the pace, but the music industry is sitting back, suing, whining, and belly-aching.
If they don't want to play in the real world, they WILL lose profit, but it's certainly not our fault.
You gotta move with the times.
Douglas,
Dirk is quite possibly the most hilarious fiction character ever. Is he based at all on you?
I've tried so many different distros. I still use Redhat. someone making money (God forbid) is not the equivalent of someone "taking over the world".
Redhat has a great distro, let them profit from their work. please.
Fook
These puppies can be sooo useful, but they gotta be cheap, otherwise I can buy a couple more CTX cheapo boxes for $300. At least those are chip/slot/ram upgradable. MP3 server frontends, In-car mp3 players, X-box screens. There are so many uses. I'd buy more than one for sure.
Fook it all!
I notice always when running gnome and other X UIs that they are slow. Mouse movements are choppy at times, incredibly slow redrawing, etc, even using a nice video card. Win98 runs fine on a mid-end machine with 32mb, why doesn't gnome?
This is by no means a complaint, just wondering.
gnome is by far the most usable linux UI I've used.
Is
I'm required to work 45 hours minimum. and I usually do a few more than that. this is every single week all year long. The government has no clue (as usual).
As well, when I have something that I must do in one sitting, I work from home to make sure things get done on time.
Is
It seems strange to me the numbers they are reporting.
I work for a law firm, and in research and polling, words matter. how you word something will totally change the results of the poll. I can't see how Americans would want to vote in another Democrat for a few years after the crap that Slick Willy has put us thru.
I'm glad we aren't relying on these internet guesses to actually elect officials.
Fook
I'm a liberal as the next guy, but I've seen the stuff here in NC that you can get thru the library. There are adults here hitting porn sites and printing out pics and porn related articles
at the library while sitting next to children. The children can get to it too.
if I was a parent I'd be goin nuts. If a library isn't safe for a kid, what is? Librarys are funded by MY pocket, the least they can do is not allow porn. at least. as far as "kids right" go, well I've seen that used for everything.. if a hamster wellness group saw a dead hamster they could riot for "hamster's rights" too... thats just a lousy excuse to not do their job right.
porn does not belong in a publically funded place. much less a publically place that is frequented by kids.
Fook
sounds like your typical Win9x class at your local community college. First, they explain what a keyboard is and how to use it, then some basic navigation commands, and the user goes home with a small $.10 certificate they can hang and say they know Linux.
Fook