I haven't made any great study of what happened, but I'm not sure any apology is in order.
As I understand it, they made an astonishing scientific claim. That claim, while it might be absolutely true, was not substantiated by the experiment they describe.
There is more to good science than turning out to be right.
Please reconsider what the effect of a hole, less than half an inch in diameter, would have on a commercial aircraft.
There is a good chance that there is already 0.2 in^2 of leakage, and doubling it is not going to cause the plane to turn inside-out.
That's not to say that I think that discharging a firearm in an aircraft is a thing to be taken lightly. Your comment, however, is nothing more than an ignorant appeal to emotion.
He said that Jay and Silent Bob wouldn't be back. That he didn't want to be Pauly Shore.
What the fuck?
Maybe his next film should be about a director who does a really fresh, raw movie. Follows it up with some meaningful, personal movies (I'm ignoring "Mallrats"), and then turns into the thing he fears most.
What? Do I have a right to invade your home and make a political speech in your living room?
I'm not at all familiar with the Australian Constitution, but the American ideal of free speech is the freedom to speak, not a guarantee of being heard.
According to IMDB the quote is "Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding." which is how I remember it.
Unless you are quoting his mutterings on the porch.
Well, it depends entirely on the depth of the closet. We really only need to know how far he is from the door (and the angle off the normal to the door) to calculate the width in some usable unit.
I was trying to be funny. Only you know if I succeeded. I did click the link, and I was playing off of what you said in your journal. I disagree with your premise, but I'm okay with that if you are;-)
Incidentally, "nooch" is a Kevin Smithism (really a Jay Mewesism) for "just kidding."
I agree about the originality of Apache and snort (sodi-mumbo-jumbo-podi I am not familiar with).
Well, I feel a bit vindicated. Sodipodi is an SVG editor. Allow me to reiterate my point. If you seek only clones you will find only clones.
Oo - perhaps if it was different people would complain. But also:
a) if it was different and better, people wouldn't complain (I never hear people complain about Apache, although it's different from IIS, or Firefox)
I hear it all the time. "This thing doesn't render [some grossly non-compliant] website right [read: the same way as IE]."
Perhaps I have a strange world-view, but to my mind this is a) a complaint about it being different and b) standards compliance is an improvement.
b) if it is indeed the same, then it's a clone (and bad at that, since it's not better)
OO.o is not exactly the same as MS Office. It is missing features. (Mostly mis-features, IMO.) It has some improvements. I love the stylist, for example.
Most OSS aren't clones (on the other hand, one possible reason is that Microsoft and Apple were never that focused on office or creative desktop software), but many apps are clones, and bad clones at that.
I think that my mental model for the software landscape is that of an evolutionary ecosystem. Yours seems to be more like a manufacturing economy. When I was first exposed to the GIMP is was a half-assed Photoshop knock-off. I think it has diverged from Photoshop quite a bit since then. (I don't use Photoshop, so I'm not sure.) But it has developed along a different track into a useful piece of Free Software. Where you see "bad clone" I see evolutionary success.
In short, I see a "bad clone" that is Free as a good thing, because it might grow up to be something great. A "bad clone" that is not Free is likely just a waste of investment capital.
It's same like with commercial software - some of it is good, some of it is shite.
Hard to argue with that. Of course if it is Free you may deshitify it.
Right. Because snort and sodipodi and Apache are all clones of MS products.
Some items (OpenOffice.org, The GIMP) aren't much more than knockoffs. BUT they are trying to fulfill the same role. If OO.o worked in a completely different way from Office this guy'd be bitching about the UI.
Most Free and/or OSS projects are like Mozilla or the GIMP; they fill the same niche as a commercial product, but they strike a balance between innovation and familiarity. A minority are completely out of left field like Bit Torrent.
The majority of the people I have heard make the "chasing the taillights" observation are myopic MBAs or pundits who refuse to use anything unfamiliar, but when people show them something they can be comfortable with they bemoan the lack of innovation.
There is innovative Free and OSS out there, but if you choose to ignore anything that isn't a workalike you shouldn't be surprised to find nothing but workalikes.
Several people have made the appropriate reply, but no one has actually provided you the text you need:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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Ha! Before this month is out I will look as someone and say, "Ow! My memory!"
-Peter
Uh, that think your mind is floating around in has been in outer space.
We're all made of star poo.
-Peter
I haven't made any great study of what happened, but I'm not sure any apology is in order.
As I understand it, they made an astonishing scientific claim. That claim, while it might be absolutely true, was not substantiated by the experiment they describe.
There is more to good science than turning out to be right.
-Peter
Sure, but you have to email me. Or post your email address.
-Peter
Dude, email me and I'll send you an invite. No begging necessary.
-Peter
They added file contents indexing to grep?! Sweet!
-Peter
I recommend that you publish PDF, not .doc (or .swx).
OO.o makes this easy, with its "export PDF" feature.
I consider word processor internal formats to be "source" files. Hardcopy, PostScript, or PDF files(maybe even HTML) are a presentation formats.
-Peter
I figured someone would gig me on the firmware on my shiny new blu-ray.
;-)
I'm okay with non-Free "software" that is integral to a piece of hardware. Or, at the very least, it is a battle I'm not ready to face yet
-Peter
I use Free Software exclusively at home. It is a matter of principle for me.
So I buy a new blu-ray player for my PC (I don't have a TV) and get, say, Brian Helgeland's latest opus on blu-ray disc. Pop it into my player.
Awww, too bad, Pete. You can't take it back to the store 'cause it's opened. You can't watch it unless you buy a MS OS.
I guess my choice is to avoid the format all together.
Thanks.
-Peter
Please reconsider what the effect of a hole, less than half an inch in diameter, would have on a commercial aircraft.
There is a good chance that there is already 0.2 in^2 of leakage, and doubling it is not going to cause the plane to turn inside-out.
That's not to say that I think that discharging a firearm in an aircraft is a thing to be taken lightly. Your comment, however, is nothing more than an ignorant appeal to emotion.
-Peter
I'm a huge Kevin Smith fan.
He said that Jay and Silent Bob wouldn't be back. That he didn't want to be Pauly Shore.
What the fuck?
Maybe his next film should be about a director who does a really fresh, raw movie. Follows it up with some meaningful, personal movies (I'm ignoring "Mallrats"), and then turns into the thing he fears most.
I'd pay to see that.
-Peter
I'm just passing on what my publisher told me when I pitched "Zen and the Art of Tao Maintenance" to him.
-Peter
You jerk. His or her shift key is clearly broken. You can't type angle brackets without a shift key.
-Peter
PS: Oh, fuck. I just realized that the underscore requires a shift too. OP must just be an idiot.
-P
. . . no longer clever to use the word "Tao" or "Zen" in your book title.
Thank you for your attention regarding this matter.
-Peter
What? Do I have a right to invade your home and make a political speech in your living room?
I'm not at all familiar with the Australian Constitution, but the American ideal of free speech is the freedom to speak, not a guarantee of being heard.
Keep your speech out of my fucking inbox.
-Peter
Wait! We could do that with all industries. Now all we need is a catchy name! Hmm, something that displays our belief in communal property . . .
But in all seriousness, you are a brilliant troll. I liked your 12cm CD bit too. I'm adding you as a friend.
-Peter
Please contact me to make royalty arrangemnets.
-Peter
According to IMDB the quote is "Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding." which is how I remember it.
Unless you are quoting his mutterings on the porch.
-Peter
Well, it depends entirely on the depth of the closet. We really only need to know how far he is from the door (and the angle off the normal to the door) to calculate the width in some usable unit.
Oh, that wasn't what you meant, was it?
-Peter
I was trying to be funny. Only you know if I succeeded. I did click the link, and I was playing off of what you said in your journal. I disagree with your premise, but I'm okay with that if you are ;-)
Incidentally, "nooch" is a Kevin Smithism (really a Jay Mewesism) for "just kidding."
-Peter
How do you know it's light minutes? Could be arc minutes. So now we just need to know how far he is from the closet.
-Peter
Well, I feel a bit vindicated. Sodipodi is an SVG editor. Allow me to reiterate my point. If you seek only clones you will find only clones.
I hear it all the time. "This thing doesn't render [some grossly non-compliant] website right [read: the same way as IE]."
Perhaps I have a strange world-view, but to my mind this is a) a complaint about it being different and b) standards compliance is an improvement.
OO.o is not exactly the same as MS Office. It is missing features. (Mostly mis-features, IMO.) It has some improvements. I love the stylist, for example.
I think that my mental model for the software landscape is that of an evolutionary ecosystem. Yours seems to be more like a manufacturing economy. When I was first exposed to the GIMP is was a half-assed Photoshop knock-off. I think it has diverged from Photoshop quite a bit since then. (I don't use Photoshop, so I'm not sure.) But it has developed along a different track into a useful piece of Free Software. Where you see "bad clone" I see evolutionary success.
In short, I see a "bad clone" that is Free as a good thing, because it might grow up to be something great. A "bad clone" that is not Free is likely just a waste of investment capital.
Hard to argue with that. Of course if it is Free you may deshitify it.
-Peter
That should be "Data are singular."
Nooch.
-Peter
Right. Because snort and sodipodi and Apache are all clones of MS products.
Some items (OpenOffice.org, The GIMP) aren't much more than knockoffs. BUT they are trying to fulfill the same role. If OO.o worked in a completely different way from Office this guy'd be bitching about the UI.
Most Free and/or OSS projects are like Mozilla or the GIMP; they fill the same niche as a commercial product, but they strike a balance between innovation and familiarity. A minority are completely out of left field like Bit Torrent.
The majority of the people I have heard make the "chasing the taillights" observation are myopic MBAs or pundits who refuse to use anything unfamiliar, but when people show them something they can be comfortable with they bemoan the lack of innovation.
There is innovative Free and OSS out there, but if you choose to ignore anything that isn't a workalike you shouldn't be surprised to find nothing but workalikes.
-Peter
-Peter