Git and mercurial lose some features that enterprises like, spare checkouts for example is a killer feature for enterprises that don't work well with DVCSs simply because of their original design.
What does this have to do with the Pirate movement? It's outside your core areas of copyright and patents. Your 'MPs' are supposed to take a completely unpredictable stance on anything else.
I see you still haven't got over your butthurt ragequit. What a shame.
If you weren't just trolling, I would point you to our manifesto, which says:
We pledge that we will not allow government censorship of the internet for anything but the most extreme reasons (such as military secrets or images of child abuse).
Is the MAFIAA so ensconced in power that they really just don't give a shit?
Yes.
Do they believe that such errors pose no threat to their own legitimacy?
Yes.
Or perhaps anyone knowledgeable enough to discern the difference between the clear-cut pirates and the bystanders just isn't sympathetic enough to the MAFIAA to work with them?
Also yes.
Or maybe there are people within the ranks of the MAFIAA that disagree with the entire operation and deliberately set things up give their overlords a black eye?
Apparently lack of principles is a requirement for promotion over there, so I doubt it.
I dunno what it is, but you'd think that after 10+ years of this kinda of shit they would have figured out how to do it right.
"Opting in" will likely place customers on a permanent record that will be "accidentally" leaked to a "citizens for decency" movement to publish.
Naturally, we will be fighting against this tooth, nail, and claw.
I swear the current government has a checklist somewhere titled, "Things to do to piss off the Pirate movement," and are gradually working their way down it.
The Pirate Parties provide and administrate the wikileaks.ch network (note that the same network serves wikileaks.de and wikileaks.lu). Understandably, we all feel very strongly about the importance of whistleblowing and freedom of the press. I personally will vouch for those servers' integrity at this time. Specifically, Pirate Party members in the UK, Holland, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic have all donated servers.
I'm sorry that these servers are not currently available over SSL. As I understand it, some of these servers are hosted on IP addresses shared with other websites, and apparently this setup is incompatible with SSL. In addition, we have not yet identified a signing authority that we feel confident that would be resistant to coercion and subornation by agencies looking to discredit or manipulate Wikileaks. (Got a suggestion? Reply to this post!)
I'll re-raise the issue with the PPI organising committee, and see whether we can organise something.;-)
I'm afraid that I can't speak for any of the Wikileaks-specific issues, such as document submission or the status of the wikileaks.org domain.
Instead of paying the 12 pounds, can I just copy whatever I get for joining off my friend who did?
All of our publicity materials etc are licensed CC-BY, so yes, you can. In fact, please do!
The main advantages of membership, though, are getting to vote on what policies the party adopts and who our election candidates are. The money we raise from membership fees goes towards subsidising publicity materials and paying election deposits.
After the past 2 years of endless unstable and uselessly incomplete releases,
who the heck uses KDE any more?
Me. It's a genuinely excellent desktop environment with far more polish, user-friendliness and power than GNOME. And I can't recall a "unstable and uselessly incomplete" release in the last 18 months, so yeah, your post is indeed "Flamebait".
I have the utmost respect for people like the pirate party. These people are putting money, their reputations, and possibly even their livelihood, where their mouth is.
Why thank you (and if you're a UK voter, please join us -- it's only £12 a year).
With respect to the article, it's just restating what we've been saying all along...
But at some point, they show they completely do not want to practice what they preach, and that is when it should matter.
This statement is a bit confusing. I think you mean to say that, "When they do not practice what they preach, it is a problem.." I don't believe that it is a problem if a politician does not want to practice what he preaches, but practices it anyway. A good example might be a wealthy politician who is elected on a platform of higher taxes for the wealthy, votes in higher taxes for the wealthy, and then pays those taxes rather than trying to evade them.
Why the myopic view? This is a test vehicle. Who's to say they aren't planner a larger, manned version? There's not much a robotic plane can do in space. Take photos? Satellites already do that job. Launch satellites? I would assume using conventional rockets is more efficient and cheaper. And even if this thing never ends up being manned, we're still going to learn a ton of valuable information from it.
It's obviously a prototype space fighter designed to shoot down alien spacecraft! That's the real reason it's being built by the USAF and not NASA!
The real bottleneck that wireless carriers worry about is not their network. It's the capacity of a single cell tower to carry a finite number of simultaneous connections.
It doesn't seem to be an issue in central London or even in central Tokyo...
Modern CDMA systems (such as UMTS/TD-CDMA) using very large numbers of orthogonal carriers and variable cell sizes can gracefully degrade up to thousands of simultaneous users. Just look at the main concourse of Waterloo Station in London at about 8:45 am on a Monday morning to see it in action.
Really, it seems to me that the issue is that Verizon's eyes are bigger than its stomach. It's marketing a service that it hasn't bothered to roll out the equipment to actually provide, despite it being entirely possible to do so.
Actually, he pushed an incorrect assumption that operating systems don't include graphical interfaces (any other type of interface, but not graphics apparently).
No he didn't. You do know there are about an order of magnitude more systems running the Linux operating system without a GUI than with one, right?
What about window managers? Is my X11 based window manager going to manage window decorations for my Wayland applications? Does Wayland even have window managers?
Apparently, Wayland clients will all render their own window decorations. Which sounds utterly retarded to me: I really like having all of my windows having matching and predictable window decorations, with such nice WM-enabled features as a close button which falls back to killing the application if it doesn't respond to the request to close.
From what I can tell, Wayland is going to be a massive regression in actual usability and power of the open source GUI stack in favour of something that's shiny but seriously lacking in substance.
Also, settings management on X11 implementations like x.org are a fiasco resulting in dark screens after system updates.
Xorg is very good at autodetection nowadays. Next time, try just moving your Xorg.conf out of the way and starting X -- you may be pleasantly surprised...;-)
They are duplicating the KDE 4.0 roll out plan?? *ducks*
Yeah, I never understood why, when the KDE devs said, "Warning! The initial KDE 4.0 is missing a lot of features and probably doesn't have everything a normal desktop user needs yet!" all the distros ignored them and packaged it instead of KDE 3.x. I skipped Fedora 9 completely because of that.
But on the other hand, KDE 4.5 is absolutely brilliant, and I now wouldn't willingly go back to KDE 3.x again.
Fedora is for those who really enjoy tinkering, who want to be bleeding-edge. A lot of time, the non-standard apps won't run without some significant tweaking, and even Redhat says that you will need to recompile the kernel to avoid some hard limits on Disk I/O, however they make doing all of these tasks very easy, because they maintain very large repos and provide you with your development tools strait off the disk.
Um, I've been using Fedora on my workstation continuously for six years, and I've never had the need to recompile my kernel, nor have I had to perform "significant tweaking" to get "non-standard apps" to work (admittedly, I tend to stick almost exclusively to FLOSS stuff, which might help, but Quake IV ran out-of-the-box, for example). Neither have I had any issues at all with dependency tracking -- yum seems to take care of all that for me. In fact, the only times anything more than trivial tinkering has actually been necessary has been to setup postfix, spamassassin and dovecot to work nicely together -- and I don't imagine that's trivial on Ubuntu either.
Actually, I've found Fedora much less troublesome than Ubuntu -- in particular, the PulseAudio horror stories I hear from my Ubuntu user friends seem to have more-or-less passed me by, and KDE on Fedora generally seems to be way more polished and well-integrated than KDE on Ubuntu.
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Git and mercurial lose some features that enterprises like, spare checkouts for example is a killer feature for enterprises that don't work well with DVCSs simply because of their original design.
What's a "spare checkout", exactly?
My guess is the next "world war" (more a "worldwide war") will be governments vs. the people.
My guess is that the next "world war" will be the Last War.
What does this have to do with the Pirate movement? It's outside your core areas of copyright and patents. Your 'MPs' are supposed to take a completely unpredictable stance on anything else.
I see you still haven't got over your butthurt ragequit. What a shame.
If you weren't just trolling, I would point you to our manifesto, which says:
We pledge that we will not allow government censorship of the internet for anything but the most extreme reasons (such as military secrets or images of child abuse).
Is the MAFIAA so ensconced in power that they really just don't give a shit?
Yes.
Do they believe that such errors pose no threat to their own legitimacy?
Yes.
Or perhaps anyone knowledgeable enough to discern the difference between the clear-cut pirates and the bystanders just isn't sympathetic enough to the MAFIAA to work with them?
Also yes.
Or maybe there are people within the ranks of the MAFIAA that disagree with the entire operation and deliberately set things up give their overlords a black eye?
Apparently lack of principles is a requirement for promotion over there, so I doubt it.
I dunno what it is, but you'd think that after 10+ years of this kinda of shit they would have figured out how to do it right.
Haha, that's a good one, pull the other one!
'Some ISPs' meaning 'ISPs who, in total, cater to less than 5% of the population and who don't want to do any business with government or schools'.
Like the ISP I use, for example! They're decent chaps and I highly recommend them.
"Opting in" will likely place customers on a permanent record that will be "accidentally" leaked to a "citizens for decency" movement to publish.
Naturally, we will be fighting against this tooth, nail, and claw.
I swear the current government has a checklist somewhere titled, "Things to do to piss off the Pirate movement," and are gradually working their way down it.
The Pirate Parties provide and administrate the wikileaks.ch network (note that the same network serves wikileaks.de and wikileaks.lu). Understandably, we all feel very strongly about the importance of whistleblowing and freedom of the press. I personally will vouch for those servers' integrity at this time. Specifically, Pirate Party members in the UK, Holland, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic have all donated servers.
I'm sorry that these servers are not currently available over SSL. As I understand it, some of these servers are hosted on IP addresses shared with other websites, and apparently this setup is incompatible with SSL. In addition, we have not yet identified a signing authority that we feel confident that would be resistant to coercion and subornation by agencies looking to discredit or manipulate Wikileaks. (Got a suggestion? Reply to this post!)
I'll re-raise the issue with the PPI organising committee, and see whether we can organise something. ;-)
I'm afraid that I can't speak for any of the Wikileaks-specific issues, such as document submission or the status of the wikileaks.org domain.
No doubt for consistency they will need to remove Iain Banks' "Walking on Glass" too.
But can I insert my name into the system without paying and then vote anyways?
No.
Also: 2/10. You're trying too hard.
Instead of paying the 12 pounds, can I just copy whatever I get for joining off my friend who did?
All of our publicity materials etc are licensed CC-BY, so yes, you can. In fact, please do!
The main advantages of membership, though, are getting to vote on what policies the party adopts and who our election candidates are. The money we raise from membership fees goes towards subsidising publicity materials and paying election deposits.
After the past 2 years of endless unstable and uselessly incomplete releases, who the heck uses KDE any more?
Me. It's a genuinely excellent desktop environment with far more polish, user-friendliness and power than GNOME. And I can't recall a "unstable and uselessly incomplete" release in the last 18 months, so yeah, your post is indeed "Flamebait".
I have the utmost respect for people like the pirate party. These people are putting money, their reputations, and possibly even their livelihood, where their mouth is.
Why thank you (and if you're a UK voter, please join us -- it's only £12 a year).
With respect to the article, it's just restating what we've been saying all along...
'Modern reactors are very safe. '
Insurance companies don't believe that for some reason.
Well, yes. They can make more money that way.
Your best source is The Guardian in the UK. They have stuff that US papers don't.
Soon, people who wish to work in the diplomatic corps will be advised not to read foreign newspapers.
But at some point, they show they completely do not want to practice what they preach, and that is when it should matter.
This statement is a bit confusing. I think you mean to say that, "When they do not practice what they preach, it is a problem.." I don't believe that it is a problem if a politician does not want to practice what he preaches, but practices it anyway. A good example might be a wealthy politician who is elected on a platform of higher taxes for the wealthy, votes in higher taxes for the wealthy, and then pays those taxes rather than trying to evade them.
Why the myopic view? This is a test vehicle. Who's to say they aren't planner a larger, manned version? There's not much a robotic plane can do in space. Take photos? Satellites already do that job. Launch satellites? I would assume using conventional rockets is more efficient and cheaper. And even if this thing never ends up being manned, we're still going to learn a ton of valuable information from it.
It's obviously a prototype space fighter designed to shoot down alien spacecraft! That's the real reason it's being built by the USAF and not NASA!
The real bottleneck that wireless carriers worry about is not their network. It's the capacity of a single cell tower to carry a finite number of simultaneous connections.
It doesn't seem to be an issue in central London or even in central Tokyo...
Modern CDMA systems (such as UMTS/TD-CDMA) using very large numbers of orthogonal carriers and variable cell sizes can gracefully degrade up to thousands of simultaneous users. Just look at the main concourse of Waterloo Station in London at about 8:45 am on a Monday morning to see it in action.
Really, it seems to me that the issue is that Verizon's eyes are bigger than its stomach. It's marketing a service that it hasn't bothered to roll out the equipment to actually provide, despite it being entirely possible to do so.
That LG device is awesome! It has a fixed USB connector (was it broken?), and status LED and and internal antenna! How feature rich! http://network4g.verizonwireless.com/#/devices
You missed out the expensive bit -- the chipset (I can't remember whether you folks use GSM over there these days).
Actually, he pushed an incorrect assumption that operating systems don't include graphical interfaces (any other type of interface, but not graphics apparently).
No he didn't. You do know there are about an order of magnitude more systems running the Linux operating system without a GUI than with one, right?
Bzzt! Wrong...
No, nothing the GP said was factually incorrect.
What about window managers? Is my X11 based window manager going to manage window decorations for my Wayland applications? Does Wayland even have window managers?
Apparently, Wayland clients will all render their own window decorations. Which sounds utterly retarded to me: I really like having all of my windows having matching and predictable window decorations, with such nice WM-enabled features as a close button which falls back to killing the application if it doesn't respond to the request to close.
From what I can tell, Wayland is going to be a massive regression in actual usability and power of the open source GUI stack in favour of something that's shiny but seriously lacking in substance.
Also, settings management on X11 implementations like x.org are a fiasco resulting in dark screens after system updates.
Xorg is very good at autodetection nowadays. Next time, try just moving your Xorg.conf out of the way and starting X -- you may be pleasantly surprised... ;-)
They are duplicating the KDE 4.0 roll out plan?? *ducks*
Yeah, I never understood why, when the KDE devs said, "Warning! The initial KDE 4.0 is missing a lot of features and probably doesn't have everything a normal desktop user needs yet!" all the distros ignored them and packaged it instead of KDE 3.x. I skipped Fedora 9 completely because of that.
But on the other hand, KDE 4.5 is absolutely brilliant, and I now wouldn't willingly go back to KDE 3.x again.
Fedora is for those who really enjoy tinkering, who want to be bleeding-edge. A lot of time, the non-standard apps won't run without some significant tweaking, and even Redhat says that you will need to recompile the kernel to avoid some hard limits on Disk I/O, however they make doing all of these tasks very easy, because they maintain very large repos and provide you with your development tools strait off the disk.
Um, I've been using Fedora on my workstation continuously for six years, and I've never had the need to recompile my kernel, nor have I had to perform "significant tweaking" to get "non-standard apps" to work (admittedly, I tend to stick almost exclusively to FLOSS stuff, which might help, but Quake IV ran out-of-the-box, for example). Neither have I had any issues at all with dependency tracking -- yum seems to take care of all that for me. In fact, the only times anything more than trivial tinkering has actually been necessary has been to setup postfix, spamassassin and dovecot to work nicely together -- and I don't imagine that's trivial on Ubuntu either.
Actually, I've found Fedora much less troublesome than Ubuntu -- in particular, the PulseAudio horror stories I hear from my Ubuntu user friends seem to have more-or-less passed me by, and KDE on Fedora generally seems to be way more polished and well-integrated than KDE on Ubuntu.
Why do we need to allow Flash to read the letter? It's a letter ffs, it should be in text or html format.
I just posted the PDF on our website
Yeah, I hate scribd too.