What an idiot. If you support a tool that is "free" part of the point has you not upset about how others choose to use it.
Does he not think there is any balance such as te proliferation of Linux into Afganistan and other bombed countries because it is cheap and able to be locally support etc...
I'm finding 10.0 community better than 9.2. The improved responsiveness is real for a start. It hasn't so far fallen over on me. The only problem on an older machine was that it froze during install to XFS partitions. Using JFS seemed to resolve that.
I know a lot of none native English speakers/writers contribute valuably to/. but...
The basic quality of English in the postings is routinely so poor that I think I am going to give up reading the feedback and just scan the headlines (which are often riddled with flaws to but at least in most cases you can follow the link!)
All those who say it isn't important are idiots, the simple example being computers and ambiguity. If you don't write the code to do exactly what you want (understanding all those areas that are "undefined") whose fault is it?
Can the machine be expected to understand what you meant rather than what you said. Now apply that to the less predictable realm of humans in their individual vagueness and variance attempting to understand each others writing. Clarity and precision is essential.
I'd say it is more thinking of nature. The matter of fact is that in a less cozy world than our privelaged ones the life expectancy of people with certain disabilities would be very low.
If you are a person convinced that some thought or planning should always be taken to the coming of the next dark age. Or an enviromental extremist perhaps convinced that we need to minimise use of resources and that every one of set of modifications that burns additional resource.
Industry seeks to reduce defects up front because to recall a product that is flawed and keep fixing it is more expensive than getting it right first off.
Some might argue that these days one of the biggest industries is children and society. Therefore the current thinking in industry makes pre-birth testing inevitable.
As resources become tight it might become the only way to allow the population to continute increasing at the 100millions a decade or whatever it does.
Don't get angry it's just a dispationate set of observations. If nature no longer does the selection what will?
In the UK the UCTA (Unfair contract terms act) would be handy on that. It's clearly unfair to attempt to get you to sign away statutory protections and under consumer law I'm not sure it is possible.
I regularly think that a site of "actually these are the facts" would be great. For news stories too.
I'm completely with you, I've stopped believing most of the stuff I'm told or read unless they list the evidence and it is accessible to me. Sometimes I do actually check
Damned because you are smarter than others. It's totally unfair. I've been wrestling with the concept recently and wondering if there shouldn't just be a minimum level.
I say that because in say manslaughter if you foresaw the potential harm (and are daft enough to admit it) it makes your conviction easier.
So as a careful and thoughtful person who considers most outcomes I would be really at risk whereas Mr Fookwit who hasn't a clue is OK.
Mop up the idiots and give them free holiday tickets to the Arctic?
It's largly the people who use the system that are responsible not the lawyers. The legal system isn't out of control the people that use it are.
Your blaming the out-of-control system is an example of passing the blame.
I'm glad to say in the UK one big accident chasing company went under because so far the UK public have been reluctant to follow the US "it's always someone elses fault" culture.
We are creeping in the direction of "there's no such thing as an accident" anymore.
Note: I am training as a lawyer and do deal with lots of the legal profession all of whom are dismayed at the direction things are taking.
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I thought the sheer noise of the engines was the real problem.
Does he not think there is any balance such as te proliferation of Linux into Afganistan and other bombed countries because it is cheap and able to be locally support etc...
I'm finding 10.0 community better than 9.2. The improved responsiveness is real for a start. It hasn't so far fallen over on me. The only problem on an older machine was that it froze during install to XFS partitions. Using JFS seemed to resolve that.
Link by default? Well some of us go to .co.uk so it would waste my time to follow the .com link.
Though I'd hope they'd move fully to Free Software.
they will take 10-20% of that money and stick it in a trust that hires developers to produce Free Software full time!
The basic quality of English in the postings is routinely so poor that I think I am going to give up reading the feedback and just scan the headlines (which are often riddled with flaws to but at least in most cases you can follow the link!)
All those who say it isn't important are idiots, the simple example being computers and ambiguity. If you don't write the code to do exactly what you want (understanding all those areas that are "undefined") whose fault is it?
Can the machine be expected to understand what you meant rather than what you said. Now apply that to the less predictable realm of humans in their individual vagueness and variance attempting to understand each others writing. Clarity and precision is essential.
I'd say it is more thinking of nature. The matter of fact is that in a less cozy world than our privelaged ones the life expectancy of people with certain disabilities would be very low.
If you are a person convinced that some thought or planning should always be taken to the coming of the next dark age. Or an enviromental extremist perhaps convinced that we need to minimise use of resources and that every one of set of modifications that burns additional resource.
Industry seeks to reduce defects up front because to recall a product that is flawed and keep fixing it is more expensive than getting it right first off.
Some might argue that these days one of the biggest industries is children and society. Therefore the current thinking in industry makes pre-birth testing inevitable.
As resources become tight it might become the only way to allow the population to continute increasing at the 100millions a decade or whatever it does.
Don't get angry it's just a dispationate set of observations. If nature no longer does the selection what will?
In the UK the UCTA (Unfair contract terms act) would be handy on that. It's clearly unfair to attempt to get you to sign away statutory protections and under consumer law I'm not sure it is possible.
I'm completely with you, I've stopped believing most of the stuff I'm told or read unless they list the evidence and it is accessible to me. Sometimes I do actually check
So well said.
Oh how fed up I get with nation self centric expressing of things
I say that because in say manslaughter if you foresaw the potential harm (and are daft enough to admit it) it makes your conviction easier.
So as a careful and thoughtful person who considers most outcomes I would be really at risk whereas Mr Fookwit who hasn't a clue is OK.
Mop up the idiots and give them free holiday tickets to the Arctic?
Your blaming the out-of-control system is an example of passing the blame.
I'm glad to say in the UK one big accident chasing company went under because so far the UK public have been reluctant to follow the US "it's always someone elses fault" culture.
We are creeping in the direction of "there's no such thing as an accident" anymore.
Note: I am training as a lawyer and do deal with lots of the legal profession all of whom are dismayed at the direction things are taking.