his previous research into speech regognition suggests nothing other than the fact that he is qualified to develop a system that can identify certain sounds.
> Gentoo's pathetically manual install should stay that way as some sort of right of passage to gain quality support and maintain an intelligent community is pretentious, arrogant, elitist, and the sheer embodiment of what's wrong with the Linux community IMHO.
I'm defintely not a Gentoo zealot - I find them funny at best, and annoying at worst - but I think you're missing the point somewhat in that statement.
Gentoo's existence is the embodiment of what's RIGHT with the Linux community - The fact that you chose the wrong distribution for you is not the fault of the Linux community, and the fact that you don't HAVE to use Gentoo, and can use Debian, Suse, RedHat, Mandrake, or even Linspire or Xandros depending on your requirements is what's good.
It sounds as if you want Gentoo to be Mandrake or Linspire - in which case, why not use one of those, and leave the massochists who are happy to leave their system compiling overnight every time they install something to do that....
> but not everybody gives a shit about customizing and optimizing everything. Frankly, Gentoo needs easy installation and stock binary support.
That's right not everyone does, which is why binary distributions exist. No one _has_ to use Gentoo. Gentoo appeals to a certain type of person, adding the easy installation and binary support changes the type of person it attracts, and will cause those that want what Gentoo offers, to create a new distribution that _does_ allow them to waste their time recompiling stuff and deciding which USE and CFLAGS settings to use.
The original use of spam in this way comes from the Monty Python sketch in which a bunch of Vikings are singing "Spam, spam, spam, spam". and everything on the menu includes spam.
So yes, spam is anything the user does not want to see, but only when they can't see what they do want due to the volume of stuff they don't want.
Unsolicited Commercial Email is not spam if you get one a year, but it is once you start getting many UCEs for every legitimate mail...
So effectively Spam is noise - and if there's a low signal to noise ratio, you're being spammed.
That's because the default behaviour in windows for removeable storage (at least USB drives) is to disable write caching, so as long as there's no activity, it'll be happy with it.
I do remember the bluescreens win9x used to give if you took out a floppy that it thought you had in. You'd save something to floppy, then remove the floppy - hten next time you clicked save - it would assume you wanted to save it to the floppy again and default to A: - but there was no drive in, and it would bluescreen (Not a fatal blue screen, just one telling you it couldn't read the device - duh) - you'd hit enter and then choose another drive, it was definitely not elegant.
I'm assuming it's much better since W2k, but I haven't used a floppy for so long now that I don't know.
those words tell me you're not a programmer, or do not understand operating systems very well.
Pretty much every application written for an operating system can create, copy, move and delete files, as long as the user running the application has the appropriate permission. The ability to do so is part of the standard operating system libraries.
A filemanager is just a graphical interface to those functions - it has no special priveledges that allows it to do those operations. An execute arbitrary code bug in a web browser would allow you to do all those things regardless of whether or not it was the same programme as the filemanager.
There is no reason why combining the two programmes should immediately make the filemanager externaly scriptable - a programmer has to deliberately and manually expose a function to the scripting engine before it can be used, it's not something that happens by magic. (Although with QT4, it probably will - but DBus / DCOP are totally different things to the javascript scripting used in the browser, and javascript should not be able to make DBus or DCOP calls any more than it should be able to write to the filesystem).
Also - explorer.exe and iexplore.exe are not actually the same programme. They share common components, such as the rendering engine, and explorer.exe has some UI concepts from a web browser - such as the back button, but other than that, they are different applications.
I would be interested to know just how many security flaws in IE are a direct result of the supposed integration of browser and filemananger. I think you'll find that most of them are buffer overflow bugs, Active X vulnerabilities, and cross site scripting bugs.
most of those archetectures are only made by one vendor, or are always called the same thing by all vendors anyway, so you haven't really made any point there...
BTW, alpha was made by the Digital Equipment Company - or DEC, later called Digital, then bought by Compaq, and now owned by HP. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha for more info on the Alpha)
No, I think you'll find he can spell perfectly well.
Maybe it's time you learnt how things can be spelt in the rest of the world before you get burnt again.
Maybe you could start by asking some mexicans? apparently they know more than you.
well, it's a console FPS with controls that don't suck - they're fairly rare....
And multiplayer cooperative mode!, any game with that is worth a go.
Also the fact that it has a story based single player (or multi-coop) mode shows that it's not even the same type of game as UT. I never really liked the non coop multiplayer aspect of Halo though, as you could only play against other humans, and I don't have XBox live (and don't want to play against a bunch of offensive 15 year old boys anyway), and prefer to play _with_ my friends, not _against_ them....
well, we were talking about Domain Registrars not Web Hosting Providers. Maybe their web hosting service sucks, but there Domain service is pretty good.
Nowhere does anyone say that Spotlight using metadata is radical, or that metadata itself is radical.
The metadata part was noteworthy because MacOS has always had metadata, but Apple looked like it was abandoning, or at least deprecating the concept in OS X. The fact that Spotlight will use it shows that metadata on MacOS still has a future.
The point of a content management system is that it allows non technical users to maintain the site after initial setup.
They also usually have versioning, workflow (ie, changes needing to be approved before they're published), notifications, and other stuff.
If you've got three pages you probably don't need a CMS.
They definitely do add a fair amount of overhead, but if your site has a significant amount of content, and / or you have a lot of people looking after the content, a CMS is the way to go. If you don't use a ready made one, you're eventually going to implement your own one way or another anyway - so sometimes it's easier to start with one from the outset.
Zope however, is not a CMS, it's a Python based application server - it's just that most of the time that people use Zope, it's to run a CMS on top (or in the case of Plone, walk or crawl a CMS on top)
He said that you were being too black and white about it, not that you were wrong.
Of course the media affects what we do and who we are TO SOME EXTENT, to say otherwise would be pretty naive, but the question is, what is the effect and how large is it?
It's something more than 0, but almost certainly a lot less than the amount required to turn a well adjusted person into a killer. And likewise, the effect will vary from person to person, some people might be affected in a positive manner by violent games (providing an outlet, like you said), but others might show less desirable effects. Either way, it's still not the game's fault what a person does after being exposed to it, but you can't say that they have no effect at all.
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I was thinking the same thing myself.
his previous research into speech regognition suggests nothing other than the fact that he is qualified to develop a system that can identify certain sounds.
I'm assuming you're trying to be funny...
> Gentoo's pathetically manual install should stay that way as some sort of right of passage to gain quality support and maintain an intelligent community is pretentious, arrogant, elitist, and the sheer embodiment of what's wrong with the Linux community IMHO.
I'm defintely not a Gentoo zealot - I find them funny at best, and annoying at worst - but I think you're missing the point somewhat in that statement.
Gentoo's existence is the embodiment of what's RIGHT with the Linux community - The fact that you chose the wrong distribution for you is not the fault of the Linux community, and the fact that you don't HAVE to use Gentoo, and can use Debian, Suse, RedHat, Mandrake, or even Linspire or Xandros depending on your requirements is what's good.
It sounds as if you want Gentoo to be Mandrake or Linspire - in which case, why not use one of those, and leave the massochists who are happy to leave their system compiling overnight every time they install something to do that....
> but not everybody gives a shit about customizing and optimizing everything. Frankly, Gentoo needs easy installation and stock binary support.
That's right not everyone does, which is why binary distributions exist. No one _has_ to use Gentoo.
Gentoo appeals to a certain type of person, adding the easy installation and binary support changes the type of person it attracts, and will cause those that want what Gentoo offers, to create a new distribution that _does_ allow them to waste their time recompiling stuff and deciding which USE and CFLAGS settings to use.
The original use of spam in this way comes from the Monty Python sketch in which a bunch of Vikings are singing "Spam, spam, spam, spam". and everything on the menu includes spam.
So yes, spam is anything the user does not want to see, but only when they can't see what they do want due to the volume of stuff they don't want.
Unsolicited Commercial Email is not spam if you get one a year, but it is once you start getting many UCEs for every legitimate mail...
So effectively Spam is noise - and if there's a low signal to noise ratio, you're being spammed.
That's because the default behaviour in windows for removeable storage (at least USB drives) is to disable write caching, so as long as there's no activity, it'll be happy with it.
I do remember the bluescreens win9x used to give if you took out a floppy that it thought you had in.
You'd save something to floppy, then remove the floppy - hten next time you clicked save - it would assume you wanted to save it to the floppy again and default to A: - but there was no drive in, and it would bluescreen (Not a fatal blue screen, just one telling you it couldn't read the device - duh) - you'd hit enter and then choose another drive, it was definitely not elegant.
I'm assuming it's much better since W2k, but I haven't used a floppy for so long now that I don't know.
you know you've left yourself wide open there...
Optical mice have been around for more than 20 years...
Although the earlier ones required a special pad that was usually metal with hexagons or red and blue lines printed on it..
those words tell me you're not a programmer, or do not understand operating systems very well.
Pretty much every application written for an operating system can create, copy, move and delete files, as long as the user running the application has the appropriate permission.
The ability to do so is part of the standard operating system libraries.
A filemanager is just a graphical interface to those functions - it has no special priveledges that allows it to do those operations.
An execute arbitrary code bug in a web browser would allow you to do all those things regardless of whether or not it was the same programme as the filemanager.
There is no reason why combining the two programmes should immediately make the filemanager externaly scriptable - a programmer has to deliberately and manually expose a function to the scripting engine before it can be used, it's not something that happens by magic. (Although with QT4, it probably will - but DBus / DCOP are totally different things to the javascript scripting used in the browser, and javascript should not be able to make DBus or DCOP calls any more than it should be able to write to the filesystem).
Also - explorer.exe and iexplore.exe are not actually the same programme. They share common components, such as the rendering engine, and explorer.exe has some UI concepts from a web browser - such as the back button, but other than that, they are different applications.
I would be interested to know just how many security flaws in IE are a direct result of the supposed integration of browser and filemananger.
I think you'll find that most of them are buffer overflow bugs, Active X vulnerabilities, and cross site scripting bugs.
not really....I wouldn't expect shell:// to exist in a filemanager either.
hmmm...does such a thing exist in IE / Explorer, or is that a KDE thing? and what does it actually do?
most of those archetectures are only made by one vendor, or are always called the same thing by all vendors anyway, so you haven't really made any point there...
BTW, alpha was made by the Digital Equipment Company - or DEC, later called Digital, then bought by Compaq, and now owned by HP. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha for more info on the Alpha)
There is no reason whatsoever why using the same UI for a web browser and a file browser should cause any new security problems.
File managers do not have any higher access to the filesystem than the web browser already does.
so use a long and get over it.
There are plently of legitimate reasons for not liking java, but that isn't one of them, it just shows your inability to cope with change.
It's akin to saying you hate java because it uses the keyword "import" instead of "use".
No, I think you'll find he can spell perfectly well.
Maybe it's time you learnt how things can be spelt in the rest of the world before you get burnt again.
Maybe you could start by asking some mexicans? apparently they know more than you.
well, it's a console FPS with controls that don't suck - they're fairly rare....
And multiplayer cooperative mode!, any game with that is worth a go.
Also the fact that it has a story based single player (or multi-coop) mode shows that it's not even the same type of game as UT. I never really liked the non coop multiplayer aspect of Halo though, as you could only play against other humans, and I don't have XBox live (and don't want to play against a bunch of offensive 15 year old boys anyway), and prefer to play _with_ my friends, not _against_ them....
well, we were talking about Domain Registrars not Web Hosting Providers.
Maybe their web hosting service sucks, but there Domain service is pretty good.
Nowhere does anyone say that Spotlight using metadata is radical, or that metadata itself is radical.
The metadata part was noteworthy because MacOS has always had metadata, but Apple looked like it was abandoning, or at least deprecating the concept in OS X. The fact that Spotlight will use it shows that metadata on MacOS still has a future.
The point of a content management system is that it allows non technical users to maintain the site after initial setup.
They also usually have versioning, workflow (ie, changes needing to be approved before they're published), notifications, and other stuff.
If you've got three pages you probably don't need a CMS.
They definitely do add a fair amount of overhead, but if your site has a significant amount of content, and / or you have a lot of people looking after the content, a CMS is the way to go. If you don't use a ready made one, you're eventually going to implement your own one way or another anyway - so sometimes it's easier to start with one from the outset.
Zope however, is not a CMS, it's a Python based application server - it's just that most of the time that people use Zope, it's to run a CMS on top (or in the case of Plone, walk or crawl a CMS on top)
if no has been able to duplicate it, then why's he suing?
> People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
But doesn't that just give the same people more oportunities?
(sorry *ducks*)
You missed what he said.
He said that you were being too black and white about it, not that you were wrong.
Of course the media affects what we do and who we are TO SOME EXTENT, to say otherwise would be pretty naive, but the question is, what is the effect and how large is it?
It's something more than 0, but almost certainly a lot less than the amount required to turn a well adjusted person into a killer.
And likewise, the effect will vary from person to person, some people might be affected in a positive manner by violent games (providing an outlet, like you said), but others might show less desirable effects. Either way, it's still not the game's fault what a person does after being exposed to it, but you can't say that they have no effect at all.
but _starbucks_?
isn't that the coffee equivalent of going to McDonalds to look cool?
With chickens!
It's a hard disk based mp3 player with the same price as an iPod at the same capacity. If that's not a competitor, WHAT IS?
yes it's a mistake, but it's a far more understandable one than what you'd normally see.
At least it's not an apostrophe for pluralisation....
That sounds like a great idea!
We could make it boot right up into BASIC with a soothing blue coloured screen if there's no disk there.
2005, the year of LOAD *,8,1