You seem to equate liberty with convenience. It's not exactly the same thing. Would you like to secure your computer with the caveat that you can no longer visit/.? That would be sacrificing liberty for security. Accessing your computer quickly and easily isn't exactly a liberty. Deciding what you want to do and then being able to do it is a liberty.
Re:Which version of 2.6???
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From the press release: "SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 core technology includes the new enhanced Linux kernel 2.6.8"
3) Given the difficulty of getting CSS stylesheets to work correctly across all browsers, you have to ask yourself - doesn't it make more sense to use tabular design and some content management system that contains templating features, rather than struggling with the theoretically cool but difficult to implement CSS design switching?
Seems like you missed the point on that one, they aren't at any point suggesting that anyone should use CSS switching on their site. The switching engine is not even mentioned, and that is intentional. The point is to encourage people to use CSS for their layout by showing how very differently you can lay out your page using only CSS. Should your site implement the ability to switch styles? Only if it adds to your user experience in some meaningful way.
Hmm, that's actually quite cool(no pun intended). I knew I was making a mistake when I said "definitely" but at least I learned something as a result. However, I still posit that at 0K it would be solid, since there should be zero molecular activity in that state. Ya know, no energy, no motion.
It's a solid at those temperatures, what is it at higher temps? Liquid again? Does it have two melting points? At what temp does it vaporize? Does it freeze at some point below the normal low-end melting point? At 0 degrees Kelvin, it's definitely a solid, somewhere above that, a liquid, then a solid again, then a liquid again, then a vapor? Maybe.
I'm not old enough to "remember" Watergate. But I do recall that all the wrong-doing was committed even though the Republican candidate was almost assured of a landslide victory, which he got, and with little help from the Plumbers(or whatever they were called), I might add. Just because Bush is sure to win doesn't preclude the possibility of them further rigging the election, just in case. Regardless, I'm gonna show up and vote against Bush, I just wish that I could vote for someone other than Kerry.
Well, it's not like I was gonna put this on sourceforge. I know it's not scalable, well-formed, whatever. But it is quick, small, and easy. If I could have written it smaller, and in worse style, I would have. In fact, here goes:
There has never been a true Marxist society. It's probably not possible. But it's a reasonable ideal. And whack job Marxist politicians could help counterbalance some of the other whack jobs in government. In my opinion, the government is full of dangerous lunatics, and our only chance is to make sure that they disagree and can't get anything frightening done.
If the U.S. tried to become a Marxist society, it would fail, without question. But if a significant number of people contributed Marxist elements into our current system, it could be a good thing.
I would have much preferred to see the volume of email, represented in terms of the size of messages received, displayed on a nice looking bar graph, with viruses in the foreground, spam in the back. Maybe even show legit email as another row in front of the viruses. Or even just a line graph. As it is, the information is occluded by his presentation. He took some raw data, did very little to interpet it, and put it on his blog. The information could be interesting, but the presentation is very lacking.
Collusion: You and everyone else agree to charge the same price, eliminating that pesky "competition."
Dumping: You sell at a loss, driving competitors who cannot afford that kind of loss out of business, then you jack up your price and recoup when you're the only shop in town.
Price fixing: See collusion, except that everyone has agreed to keep raising their price.
And it's not like these corporations are "starving artists" or anything. They're making big bucks in this horribly hostile market, where antitrust laws obviously make it impossible to do business. Right?
If it wasn't for IE, a quarter of all tech. support reps would be out of a job.
Ok, not really, but I do work in tech. support, and spend a significant portion of my day dealing with IE-related issues. If a normal rep spends an average of 1 hour each day on IE issues alone, and there are 250 reps at the center I work at, then we're spending 250 hours a day on IE problems. If no one dealt with IE issues, we could shift the workload and fire 30 people! that works out closer to an eighth, but saying "1/8" isn't impressive enough these days.
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Dive Into Python
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To this type of programmer, there is nothing more exhilarating than a new project, a blank file, a clean slate, from which they can craft the perfect solution.
I actually got a little misty eyed when I read that.
People always harp on the "religious implications" of proving that alien life exists. There was a time period nto so long ago, when it was considered standard fare that life existed on all the planets in our solar system. And no one of religious bent seemed particularly put off by that.
If we meet aliens, and they're atheists, or follow a strange alien religion, then we've got pretty much the same situation we have now, dedicated worshippers won't be swayed. If there are beings from another world who happen to believe the exact way that an earthly religion does, then you have profound religious implications.
Were any banned? At all? Where's that list? Because if it's empty, then what's the big deal? I could start a campaign to ban public availability of the Bill of Rights, but that doesn't really put it in any danger of being banned(I would hope not anyway).
Ok, I don't particularly agree with outsourcing, but I happen to think that M. Bastiat would. He states that artificial boundaries on trade, such as a law prohibiting the outsourcing of jobs, are destructive forces. For instance, he speaks here of a case wherein a fictitious producer of French iron(M. Prohibant) has obtained for himself a government sanction against the importation of cheaper Belgian iron:
It is true, the crown-piece, thus directed by law into M. Prohibant's strong-box, is advantageous to him and to those whose labour it would encourage; and if the Act had caused the crownpiece to descend from the moon, these good effects would not have been counterbalanced by any corresponding evils. Unfortunately, the mysterious piece of money does not come from the moon, but from the pocket of a blacksmith, or a nail-smith, or a cartwright, or a farrier, or a labourer, or a shipwright; in a word, from James B., who gives it now without receiving a grain more of iron than when he was paying ten francs. Thus, we can see at a glance that this very much alters the state of the case; for it is very evident that M. Prohibant's profit is compensated by James B.'s loss, and all that M. Prohibant can do with the crown-piece, for the encouragement of national labour, James B. might have done himself. The stone has only been thrown upon one part of the lake, because the law has prevented it from being thrown upon another.
So, instead of the companies seeking cheaper iron being the "window-breakers" the actual detrimental factor here are the people who impose the artificial restraint on the import. The window is broken when you attempt to prevent outsourcing, and ultimately it leads to a loss of value for everyone involved.
...it provides the ability for people in these countries to start their own business, utilizing cheaper local professionals, to produce products and outcompete the American companies..
Hate to be another nitpicker, but India is not the United States. They do not have the option to advance their own social status, the culture and even laws there prevent this kind of thing from happening. So the only way this can happen is if the economic climate of India changes to match our own.
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I think someone has a screwy spellchecker, every time you said "casual" it should have been "causal."
You seem to equate liberty with convenience. It's not exactly the same thing. Would you like to secure your computer with the caveat that you can no longer visit /.? That would be sacrificing liberty for security. Accessing your computer quickly and easily isn't exactly a liberty. Deciding what you want to do and then being able to do it is a liberty.
From the press release: "SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 core technology includes the new enhanced Linux kernel 2.6.8"
So, yeah, that version.
3) Given the difficulty of getting CSS stylesheets to work correctly across all browsers, you have to ask yourself - doesn't it make more sense to use tabular design and some content management system that contains templating features, rather than struggling with the theoretically cool but difficult to implement CSS design switching?
Seems like you missed the point on that one, they aren't at any point suggesting that anyone should use CSS switching on their site. The switching engine is not even mentioned, and that is intentional. The point is to encourage people to use CSS for their layout by showing how very differently you can lay out your page using only CSS. Should your site implement the ability to switch styles? Only if it adds to your user experience in some meaningful way.
Hmm, that's actually quite cool(no pun intended). I knew I was making a mistake when I said "definitely" but at least I learned something as a result. However, I still posit that at 0K it would be solid, since there should be zero molecular activity in that state. Ya know, no energy, no motion.
It's a solid at those temperatures, what is it at higher temps? Liquid again? Does it have two melting points? At what temp does it vaporize? Does it freeze at some point below the normal low-end melting point? At 0 degrees Kelvin, it's definitely a solid, somewhere above that, a liquid, then a solid again, then a liquid again, then a vapor? Maybe.
I'm not old enough to "remember" Watergate. But I do recall that all the wrong-doing was committed even though the Republican candidate was almost assured of a landslide victory, which he got, and with little help from the Plumbers(or whatever they were called), I might add. Just because Bush is sure to win doesn't preclude the possibility of them further rigging the election, just in case. Regardless, I'm gonna show up and vote against Bush, I just wish that I could vote for someone other than Kerry.
There has never been a true Marxist society. It's probably not possible. But it's a reasonable ideal. And whack job Marxist politicians could help counterbalance some of the other whack jobs in government. In my opinion, the government is full of dangerous lunatics, and our only chance is to make sure that they disagree and can't get anything frightening done.
If the U.S. tried to become a Marxist society, it would fail, without question. But if a significant number of people contributed Marxist elements into our current system, it could be a good thing.
Ok, HL2 has been delayed 3.730229782154581e-11 half-lives of U-238. Unless I'm horribly mistaken.
I would have much preferred to see the volume of email, represented in terms of the size of messages received, displayed on a nice looking bar graph, with viruses in the foreground, spam in the back. Maybe even show legit email as another row in front of the viruses. Or even just a line graph. As it is, the information is occluded by his presentation. He took some raw data, did very little to interpet it, and put it on his blog. The information could be interesting, but the presentation is very lacking.
That site isn't even registered by them.
Collusion: You and everyone else agree to charge the same price, eliminating that pesky "competition."
Dumping: You sell at a loss, driving competitors who cannot afford that kind of loss out of business, then you jack up your price and recoup when you're the only shop in town.
Price fixing: See collusion, except that everyone has agreed to keep raising their price.
And it's not like these corporations are "starving artists" or anything. They're making big bucks in this horribly hostile market, where antitrust laws obviously make it impossible to do business. Right?
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Mixing English and metric measurements? For shame.
If it wasn't for IE, a quarter of all tech. support reps would be out of a job.
Ok, not really, but I do work in tech. support, and spend a significant portion of my day dealing with IE-related issues. If a normal rep spends an average of 1 hour each day on IE issues alone, and there are 250 reps at the center I work at, then we're spending 250 hours a day on IE problems. If no one dealt with IE issues, we could shift the workload and fire 30 people! that works out closer to an eighth, but saying "1/8" isn't impressive enough these days.
To this type of programmer, there is nothing more exhilarating than a new project, a blank file, a clean slate, from which they can craft the perfect solution.
I actually got a little misty eyed when I read that.
People always harp on the "religious implications" of proving that alien life exists. There was a time period nto so long ago, when it was considered standard fare that life existed on all the planets in our solar system. And no one of religious bent seemed particularly put off by that.
If we meet aliens, and they're atheists, or follow a strange alien religion, then we've got pretty much the same situation we have now, dedicated worshippers won't be swayed. If there are beings from another world who happen to believe the exact way that an earthly religion does, then you have profound religious implications.
I agree, as Voltaire may or may not have said "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Were any banned? At all? Where's that list? Because if it's empty, then what's the big deal? I could start a campaign to ban public availability of the Bill of Rights, but that doesn't really put it in any danger of being banned(I would hope not anyway).
So, instead of the companies seeking cheaper iron being the "window-breakers" the actual detrimental factor here are the people who impose the artificial restraint on the import. The window is broken when you attempt to prevent outsourcing, and ultimately it leads to a loss of value for everyone involved.
Hate to be another nitpicker, but India is not the United States. They do not have the option to advance their own social status, the culture and even laws there prevent this kind of thing from happening. So the only way this can happen is if the economic climate of India changes to match our own.
I know how a regular user can bring down a properly configured Unix system...with a hammer. Aside from that, I tend to agree with you.
Oh, I think the reference might have been to the heat, like, I can grill meat on my pc case because my CPU runs fine at several hundred degrees.
I was just about to do exactly what you describe, then your post stopped me. Thank you.