In one of my favorite webcomics, one of the characters is a programmer who talks only in code, because he's forgotten English. (Or at least, he did until quite recently. Whether he'll stay cured is unknown.)
8MB would presumably be a IIIxe. I'm still carrying my IIIc, which is also 8MB, but is in color. (256 colors, and a transmissive screen, though, so it washes out in the sun like a '92 laptop.)
No, that's pretty clearly "free software", as per the RMS/FSF definitions. In fact, it seems to be taken almost directly from the FSF's "four freedoms".
Perhaps someone actually realized what a crappy summary that was--the article is about the shift in dev processes that was introduced a year or two ago that produced the Vista that we have now. I was about to post another editor flame about it, but they may have actually been awake today.
I've met plenty of them--we had three separate socialist clubs on campus when I was in college: the Young Sparacists (Maoists, IIRC), the International Socialist Organization (Stalinists), and the "Democratic Socialists". They used to hang up posters about Mumia and debt relief, and the rest of us would point and laugh. Even on as liberal a campus as Columbia's, no one liked them.
The liberal definition of "Bush-sympathetic news" is "any network which reports on Bush without showing a chimp pic". Seriously, these people think "balance" means presenting press releases with "this another lie from the evil evil Karl Rove spin machine" disclaimer attached, instead of just saying what happened and letting us judge for ourselves.
Don't like that? change 200 Years of case law, otherwise stop whining.
Believe me, people are trying. Apart from case one (and case five, the point), every single one of those is the result of horrific abuses of government power.
Heh. Actually, I saw an interesting post on Instapundit just the other day, linking to an article advocating a "single subject/descriptive title" amendment to the Constitution. It sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
Most of the voting alternatives lead directly to a Euro-style n-party mess (see Germany now, or Italy always). What's needed is what dada21 described in his post above--a return to constitutional principles. If the government can't regulate corporations to death, who cares how much money they give them?
Stark staring bonkers. I particularly love the part about "all political parties of a certain dignity". You may be naive enough to trust your government to decide who does and doesn't get to be an official party, but I'm sure as hell not. Let me guess, you're Scandanavian, right?
Check your premises, as a +5 Insightful said further up the page. If it requires gutting free speech, is campaign finance really a "good concept" at all?
I don't remember the details anymore, but a court mostly likely determined that a campaign finance "reform" bill Congress passed "should" cover the Internet, and that the FEC (whose job it is to enfore campaign-related regs) therefore needed to do something about it.
The summary is 180 degrees wrong on the bill, which will (as the title suggest) protect blogs: here's the actual text.
Paragraph (22) of section 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431(22)) is amended by adding at the end of the following new sentence: "Such term shall not include communications over the Internet."
Apple has been doing so on Macs since System 1 in 1984, AFAIK. They presumably debuted in MacWrite, and possibly in the Finder's Edit menu as well (for use when editing file names). Windows picked them up in 3.1, IIRC, but the numpad versions from DOS were still useable for quite a while.
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And how many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
We'll fix it in software.
No, but Kaylee's just as hot.
In one of my favorite webcomics, one of the characters is a programmer who talks only in code, because he's forgotten English. (Or at least, he did until quite recently. Whether he'll stay cured is unknown.)
8MB would presumably be a IIIxe. I'm still carrying my IIIc, which is also 8MB, but is in color. (256 colors, and a transmissive screen, though, so it washes out in the sun like a '92 laptop.)
Quick, someone get Teal'c!
No, that's pretty clearly "free software", as per the RMS/FSF definitions. In fact, it seems to be taken almost directly from the FSF's "four freedoms".
Perhaps someone actually realized what a crappy summary that was--the article is about the shift in dev processes that was introduced a year or two ago that produced the Vista that we have now. I was about to post another editor flame about it, but they may have actually been awake today.
That's cute, comparing Paul and McKinney. Paul is (mostly) cool--McKinney is certifiably insane. Definitely a party of one.
I've met plenty of them--we had three separate socialist clubs on campus when I was in college: the Young Sparacists (Maoists, IIRC), the International Socialist Organization (Stalinists), and the "Democratic Socialists". They used to hang up posters about Mumia and debt relief, and the rest of us would point and laugh. Even on as liberal a campus as Columbia's, no one liked them.
The liberal definition of "Bush-sympathetic news" is "any network which reports on Bush without showing a chimp pic". Seriously, these people think "balance" means presenting press releases with "this another lie from the evil evil Karl Rove spin machine" disclaimer attached, instead of just saying what happened and letting us judge for ourselves.
Obviously you've never watched Stargate SG-1.
Believe me, people are trying. Apart from case one (and case five, the point), every single one of those is the result of horrific abuses of government power.
Heh. Actually, I saw an interesting post on Instapundit just the other day, linking to an article advocating a "single subject/descriptive title" amendment to the Constitution. It sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
Most of the voting alternatives lead directly to a Euro-style n-party mess (see Germany now, or Italy always). What's needed is what dada21 described in his post above--a return to constitutional principles. If the government can't regulate corporations to death, who cares how much money they give them?
Stark staring bonkers. I particularly love the part about "all political parties of a certain dignity". You may be naive enough to trust your government to decide who does and doesn't get to be an official party, but I'm sure as hell not. Let me guess, you're Scandanavian, right?
Check your premises, as a +5 Insightful said further up the page. If it requires gutting free speech, is campaign finance really a "good concept" at all?
Ah, and now we have a totally pointless update by Zonk that fixes a minor error while still leaving the story entirely wrong. Brilliant.
I don't remember the details anymore, but a court mostly likely determined that a campaign finance "reform" bill Congress passed "should" cover the Internet, and that the FEC (whose job it is to enfore campaign-related regs) therefore needed to do something about it.
The summary is 180 degrees wrong on the bill, which will (as the title suggest) protect blogs: here's the actual text.
For more info, see this blog post.
And I quote:
Strange definition of "fine" you have there.
Already down--use http://www.technovelgy.com.nyud.net:8090/ct/Scienc e-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=462.
And also probably the Pier Reis map of 1513, a common feature of ancient-alien conspiracy theories like Erich von Daniken's and Graham Hancock's.
Obviously we should all learn Lojban.
Apple has been doing so on Macs since System 1 in 1984, AFAIK. They presumably debuted in MacWrite, and possibly in the Finder's Edit menu as well (for use when editing file names). Windows picked them up in 3.1, IIRC, but the numpad versions from DOS were still useable for quite a while.
Given the title of the subthread, shouldn't that be "pkg_add sense-of-humour"?