I'll doubleplusgood the Neil Gaiman Sandman recommendation (one of the best series ever), but perhaps more easily approachable (and in the same ballpark of fantasticness) is Fables by Bill Willingham.
There is really one and only one consistent feature of their ideology: Führerprinzip or the leader principle. That basically means leaving the thinking to the higher-ups. If your superior seemed to contradict himself, that wasn't your problem, it was his.
It's always about personalities with authoritarians, and the leader can say or do no wrong.
My main issue with systemd is that it is monolithic; it violates the fundamental Unix philosophy in a most egregious way, and whenever anyone comments on this, we are (to quote the GP) "brusquely told that we shouldn't judge it we should just accept it and indeed ought to stop whining and complaining and be grateful someone is generously spending their free time on this problem, because we haven't invested the time to really learn it ourselves and don't know what we're talking about".
We used to have separate, replaceable systems for each aspect of systemd - e.g. if you didn't like syslog, there was syslog-ng, or metalog, or rsyslog; each different and meant for a different purpose. Now, it's "all or nothing" - except that it's becoming progressively more difficult to opt for "nothing" because it's integrating itself into fundamental bits like the kernel and udev.
Yeah, yeah, I know... Don't feed the trolls... but...
Were 35 years in jail an even-remotely-appropriate penalty for what essentially amounts to trespassing and/or mischief, I'd be with you. Him being "held responsible" should have amounted to something like 30 days in jail and a small fine, not a good chunk of his life in prison.
Stop blaming an individual, when the real problem is the adversarial system.
No. Fuck that.
I'm tired of the sentiment that the system is to blame, or "don't hate the player, hate the game". At some point, an individual made the decision to do this. They checked their morals at the door, and decided to abuse their authority for their own personal gain.
While the system is set up to reward that behaviour, it doesn't change the fact that Carmen M Ortiz chose to do this. At some point, we need to hold people who make decisions like this, whether or not the system encourages them to, responsible, and hold them up as the immoral SOBs that they are.
Maybe it should cause a fatal error because the input did not meet the criteria, would that be better?
Yes, it would be. Silently failing is one of PHP's most common and egregious sins. I'd rather it fail and fail loudly, so bugs like this can get fixed during development.
I was contacted by Google solely through my website (which I hadn't updated in about 3 years). Still, they'd found it, using a pretty funky search, and then they emailed me asking if I would like to be interviewed.
As a further indictment of HR drones:-), I aced the technical interviews (including several by phone and about 4 or 5 back-to-back technical interviews onsite), but then they mysteriously "had no projects that matched my skill set" once everything got to HR.
Dark Heart of Uukrul was a great game, with a very unique feel for the day. So many great things - no boxy dungeons, the whole thing "felt" like a "real" underground city; the notable difference between wizards' spells and priests' prayers (which you had to guess the meaning of, since all they told you was the literal prayer text); SATOR and ROTAS >:-)
I still remember the first place where you start encountering the grey and black orcs with fear.
Truly an awesome, awesome game, and one I replay at least once every few years.
I am so sensible, Sir, of the kindness with which the House has listened to me, that I will not detain you longer. I will only say this, that if the measure before us should pass, and should produce one-tenth part of the evil which it is calculated to produce, and which I fully expect it to produce, there will soon be a remedy, though of a very objectionable kind. Just as the absurd acts which prohibited the sale of game were virtually repealed by the poacher, just as many absurd revenue acts have been virtually repealed by the smuggler, so will this law be virtually repealed by piratical booksellers. At present the holder of copyright has the public feeling on his side. Those who invade copyright are regarded as knaves who take the bread out of the mouths of deserving men. Everybody is well pleased to see them restrained by the law, and compelled to refund their ill-gotten gains. No tradesman of good repute will have anything to do with such disgraceful transactions. Pass this law: and that feeling is at an end. Men very different from the present race of piratical booksellers will soon infringe this intolerable monopoly. Great masses of capital will be constantly employed in the violation of the law. Every art will be employed to evade legal pursuit; and the whole nation will be in the plot. On which side indeed should the public sympathy be when the question is whether some book as popular as Robinson Crusoe, or the Pilgrim's Progress, shall be in every cottage, or whether it shall be confined to the libraries of the rich for the advantage of the great-grandson of a bookseller who, a hundred years before, drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress? Remember too that, when once it ceases to be considered as wrong and discreditable to invade literary property, no person can say where the invasion will stop. The public seldom makes nice distinctions. The wholesome copyright which now exists will share in the disgrace and danger of the new copyright which you are about to create. And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living. If I saw, Sir, any probability that this bill could be so amended in the Committee that my objections might be removed, I would not divide the House in this stage. But I am so fully convinced that no alteration which would not seem insupportable to my honourable and learned friend, could render his measure supportable to me, that I must move, though with regret, that this bill be read a second time this day six months.
I use nspluginwrapper and the 32-bit Flash plugin, it works fairly well, although occasionally Flash "goes away" (blank window with no content) and you need to reload the browser.
That being said, it's certainly better than most of the other alternatives.
I'll second the shenanigans (and I'm going to fetch my broom).
I also happen to be somewhat fluent in reading Middle Egyptian, and I'll testify to the difficulty of translating all but the most simple of sentences. You need context, and lots of it - otherwise you won't even get the right verb form half the time (because Egyptian doesn't write down vowels, several of the verb forms are visually identical but have completely different meanings). Even in "beginner" texts, such as the Westcar Papyrus, there are chunks that translators disagree on, and translate in entirely different ways.
Automated translators can't even get French right half the time, and there are plenty of living, bilingual French/English speakers who have extremely good understanding of both grammars. This is not the case with Egyptian.
I'd mod you up if I had the points. That's exactly the purpose.
MPAA: "Ooh, Canadians are very, very bad, they steal all their movies and are the source of illegal movies on the internet."
Canadian Goverment: "Well, I guess we'd better change the laws to stop that."
Despite the fact that we all pay media taxes to permit exactly this, and that the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld that the current laws say both downloading and uploading using P2P is legal.
Yeah, I hope no one falls for this, but why am I cynical?
Check out Geometric Algebra. It integrates quaternions and vectors in a way that makes sense. The two together are greater than the sum of their parts.
Not that I necessarily agree with this, but Carl Sagan hypothesized in Dragons of Eden that mammals were originally nocturnal, and evolved sleep so as to be still (and thus more difficult to spot) during the day when the reptiles (which dominated all niches when mammals first evolved) were active.
I'm thinking the real reasons for all of this are in two sentences in the open letter:
Our interest in signing this agreement was to secure interoperability and joint sales agreements, but Microsoft asked that we cooperate on patents as well, and so a patent cooperation agreement was included as a part of the deal.
and
We have stated our commitment to use our own software patents to protect open source technologies.
Microsoft knows that they have infringed on Novell's patents, and, if they were to launch a patent attack on Linux, Novell would defend. Now, Novell can't. Microsoft's disarmed one of the big guns Linux has against a patent war. Watch for them to cozy up to IBM next.
I had a similar problem, but not completely identical.
One or two years ago, I did the same thing - purchased parts for a new machine (AMD64), assembled, etc., and installed Linux From Scratch on it (yes, I'm a masochist). Anyway, in addition to actual hardware/memory burn-in tests that I ran on it, the machine essentially had a steady GCC compile test for the better part of two weeks; so I KNEW the hardware was good.
Try to install Windows XP on it (my usual MO for a single machine is to install vanilla, then install the service packs) to dual-boot for the couple of games I play that won't work in Wine - nope, BSOD. Usually at the point where it's reading/writing files to the HD for the first time. Tried nearly everything - custom motherboard drivers from the manufacturer, BIOS updates, you name it, wouldn't install. Error message on the BSOD indicates it's faulty hardware.
The solution: I created a slipstreamed XP SP1 install CD, and magically everything worked fine. Still does to this day. I guess there was some sort of glitch in one of the Windows built-in drivers that didn't like my hardware, and they fixed it in the service pack.
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Canadians are granted a B-1/B-2 visa at the border (depending on business vs. pleasure); they just don't have to apply in advance.
Source: being a Canadian who has travelled to the US a great deal.
I'll doubleplusgood the Neil Gaiman Sandman recommendation (one of the best series ever), but perhaps more easily approachable (and in the same ballpark of fantasticness) is Fables by Bill Willingham.
There is really one and only one consistent feature of their ideology: Führerprinzip or the leader principle. That basically means leaving the thinking to the higher-ups. If your superior seemed to contradict himself, that wasn't your problem, it was his.
It's always about personalities with authoritarians, and the leader can say or do no wrong.
I have mod points, I would +6 you if I could.
I use Amaze file manager, and have no complaints.
It's open source, GitHub is here: https://github.com/arpitkh96/AmazeFileManager.
My main issue with systemd is that it is monolithic; it violates the fundamental Unix philosophy in a most egregious way, and whenever anyone comments on this, we are (to quote the GP) "brusquely told that we shouldn't judge it we should just accept it and indeed ought to stop whining and complaining and be grateful someone is generously spending their free time on this problem, because we haven't invested the time to really learn it ourselves and don't know what we're talking about".
We used to have separate, replaceable systems for each aspect of systemd - e.g. if you didn't like syslog, there was syslog-ng, or metalog, or rsyslog; each different and meant for a different purpose. Now, it's "all or nothing" - except that it's becoming progressively more difficult to opt for "nothing" because it's integrating itself into fundamental bits like the kernel and udev.
Second this - the Privacy Commissioner's office in Canada has real teeth.
Yeah, yeah, I know... Don't feed the trolls... but...
Were 35 years in jail an even-remotely-appropriate penalty for what essentially amounts to trespassing and/or mischief, I'd be with you. Him being "held responsible" should have amounted to something like 30 days in jail and a small fine, not a good chunk of his life in prison.
Stop blaming an individual, when the real problem is the adversarial system.
No. Fuck that.
I'm tired of the sentiment that the system is to blame, or "don't hate the player, hate the game". At some point, an individual made the decision to do this. They checked their morals at the door, and decided to abuse their authority for their own personal gain.
While the system is set up to reward that behaviour, it doesn't change the fact that Carmen M Ortiz chose to do this. At some point, we need to hold people who make decisions like this, whether or not the system encourages them to, responsible, and hold them up as the immoral SOBs that they are.
If we don't, the system will never change.
Maybe it should cause a fatal error because the input did not meet the criteria, would that be better?
Yes, it would be. Silently failing is one of PHP's most common and egregious sins. I'd rather it fail and fail loudly, so bugs like this can get fixed during development.
Posting to undo mod slipup...
More "funny" April Fools jokes.
Slashdot is more chaff than wheat today.
Yes, they do.
I was contacted by Google solely through my website (which I hadn't updated in about 3 years). Still, they'd found it, using a pretty funky search, and then they emailed me asking if I would like to be interviewed.
As a further indictment of HR drones :-), I aced the technical interviews (including several by phone and about 4 or 5 back-to-back technical interviews onsite), but then they mysteriously "had no projects that matched my skill set" once everything got to HR.
Yep, you can go as old-skool as you like.
I build Flash apps regularly using ant from the command line and VIM for editing.
Dark Heart of Uukrul was a great game, with a very unique feel for the day. So many great things - no boxy dungeons, the whole thing "felt" like a "real" underground city; the notable difference between wizards' spells and priests' prayers (which you had to guess the meaning of, since all they told you was the literal prayer text); SATOR and ROTAS >:-)
I still remember the first place where you start encountering the grey and black orcs with fear.
Truly an awesome, awesome game, and one I replay at least once every few years.
I wish I still had mod points.
How's this for a crystal ball:
It sure sounds a lot like the present to me :-)
I use nspluginwrapper and the 32-bit Flash plugin, it works fairly well, although occasionally Flash "goes away" (blank window with no content) and you need to reload the browser.
That being said, it's certainly better than most of the other alternatives.
I'll second the shenanigans (and I'm going to fetch my broom). I also happen to be somewhat fluent in reading Middle Egyptian, and I'll testify to the difficulty of translating all but the most simple of sentences. You need context, and lots of it - otherwise you won't even get the right verb form half the time (because Egyptian doesn't write down vowels, several of the verb forms are visually identical but have completely different meanings). Even in "beginner" texts, such as the Westcar Papyrus, there are chunks that translators disagree on, and translate in entirely different ways. Automated translators can't even get French right half the time, and there are plenty of living, bilingual French/English speakers who have extremely good understanding of both grammars. This is not the case with Egyptian.
I'd mod you up if I had the points. That's exactly the purpose. MPAA: "Ooh, Canadians are very, very bad, they steal all their movies and are the source of illegal movies on the internet." Canadian Goverment: "Well, I guess we'd better change the laws to stop that." Despite the fact that we all pay media taxes to permit exactly this, and that the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld that the current laws say both downloading and uploading using P2P is legal. Yeah, I hope no one falls for this, but why am I cynical?
Check out Geometric Algebra. It integrates quaternions and vectors in a way that makes sense. The two together are greater than the sum of their parts.
Not that I necessarily agree with this, but Carl Sagan hypothesized in Dragons of Eden that mammals were originally nocturnal, and evolved sleep so as to be still (and thus more difficult to spot) during the day when the reptiles (which dominated all niches when mammals first evolved) were active.
Bingo. I'd mod you up if I had points.
Oh, how I wish I had mod points. Well done. You got coffee up my nose on this one.
Do Canadians count?
I had a similar problem, but not completely identical.
One or two years ago, I did the same thing - purchased parts for a new machine (AMD64), assembled, etc., and installed Linux From Scratch on it (yes, I'm a masochist). Anyway, in addition to actual hardware/memory burn-in tests that I ran on it, the machine essentially had a steady GCC compile test for the better part of two weeks; so I KNEW the hardware was good.
Try to install Windows XP on it (my usual MO for a single machine is to install vanilla, then install the service packs) to dual-boot for the couple of games I play that won't work in Wine - nope, BSOD. Usually at the point where it's reading/writing files to the HD for the first time. Tried nearly everything - custom motherboard drivers from the manufacturer, BIOS updates, you name it, wouldn't install. Error message on the BSOD indicates it's faulty hardware.
The solution: I created a slipstreamed XP SP1 install CD, and magically everything worked fine. Still does to this day. I guess there was some sort of glitch in one of the Windows built-in drivers that didn't like my hardware, and they fixed it in the service pack.