Becuase they're the most popular. Of course that's a vicious circle situation, but in a business environment it's better to be wrong with everyone else.
What if they put a UNIX OS on that UNIX hardware of theirs.
I'd classify Linux as a UNIX OS.
Or what about Syllable, or SkyOS?
Lol. Wonderful as that would be, you try and find an admin who'll use those in a production environment.
I'm running with composite on an 800mhz duron with 128mb ram, TNT2 and GF2. It's perfectly usable. Composite doesn't slow things down at all unless you're using the transparency anyway.
The conventional boundary is having enough mass to maintain a (near-) spherical shape, which Pluto certainly does. I say it's a planet, and so are any of these large enough to be spheres. Of course then we have to admit Ceres and Vesta, but that should have been done a long time ago, IMO.
Nope. Not bottom to top, just backward in time. Not to say that makes any more sense...
But it does. Just about any decent-sized book you read will have passages that aren't in the right chronological position - they happened before the chapter before them, or after the next chapter. A newspaper doesn't print stories in the order they happened, rather they print the most important story first, even if that was a late-breaking one. Films often include flashbacks to previous events, or scenes simply out of order. I could go on.
I SO hope you meant that as humor, because I have absolutely no clue as to which point you meant to respond to with each section of your response.
The one quoted immediately below it. If you're too dumb to figure it out you don't deserve to read it.
Of course, we also have the classic:
"because it reads more logically."
"Why should I top post?"
Yet another feeble attempt to make it seem like top posting is the same as writing bottom-to-top. The quote and the reply are separate entities, and the fact that there's another post being replied to is completely ignored by such "demonstrations".
No, it's because that's actually a far more sensible way to do it. The average usenetter doesn't because the average usenetter has been flamed by the old boys when they joined the newsgroup, and so will flame the new people and so on, just like the monkeys who are sprayed with water when they go for the bananas.
Only because the average user has been *trained* by bad messaging habits to read email that way.
No it doesn't. You interleave in the same way, just putting reply above quote rather than below. Observe.
Top-posting is fine (it annoys me, but its tolerable) if you are engaged in a single-threaded, IM-style conversation where you only have to answer one question at a time. When someone asks multiple, unrelated questions in a single email or touches on multiple topics that cannot all be dealt with in a single response, top-posting falls flat on its face.
Technical users have been taught by old boys to post in the way that was best when usenet was ridiculously unreliable and still mostly transported over UUCP. Now it actually works, but old-timers don't want to adjust, and old-timership is the only kind of status that exists on usenet.
The division on this issue seems to be squarely along business users and technical users. Most technical users have been trained in Usenet-style posting: trimmed messages, clear annotation, appropriate response. Business users have been trained by Microsoft - fire and forget.
I think it goes beyond mere fear of technology. Would you believe Skype is on the list of banned "P2P programs" at the university I'm going to in a few weeks?
Some people don't trust Skype because of its association with Kazaa founders. Thankfully I'm sure their minds will be laid to rest with it being run by ebay, after all everyone knows their subsidiaries are always very reputable companies, we all know we can trust paypal with all our money.
Isn't FreeBSD committed to removing anything that isn't available under BSD license? That makes porting something non-BSD to it seem a step backwards.
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It's still in the title, he said we all know why ["High Resolution Computer Graphics and Broadband"] advanced so quickly. Splitting that up into "We all know why [high resolution computer graphics] advanced so quickly" and "We all know why [broadband] advanced so quickly" is legit.
So, should we de-register any New Orleans city-related domains
It's not as if the domains were taken away from someone who was running them properly. The.iq domain was (presumably) run by the Hussein government, which doesn't exist any more. Until a clear replacement arises, it makes sense for ICANN to keep them.
until that mayor and his state's governor can figure which of them works for who under what authority? That seems to be a somewhat contested issue at the moment.
The laws are there, there's no real prospect of any change in government or anything like that. You can't compare the situation there with what's going on in Iraq, it's a genuine warzone.
You could also say that the Sudan, or Lebannon don't deserve their own TLDs. Or how about the "stans" that operate essentially without any meaningful constitutional democracy.
They have well established governments, pretty solidly in power, normal diplomatic relations with just about everyone, UN membership etc. Democracy isn't a requirement to have an internet domain, but a recognised government is.
For that matter, what about China? Would you consider that oppressive, totalitarian regime the ideal owner of an enormously busy hunk of the internet's address space?
It's enormously busy becuase there are so many servers under that government, it's their own names. Anyway, yes, for the same reason, China's government is pretty much undisputed. Yes, there are rebels, but there don't seem to be real challengers - is there any real prospect of, say, the Republic of China government gaining control of the country in the near future? Wheras it seems to me there's a real prospect of any number of groups that could be ruling Iraq pretty soon. When the government that was running a TLD falls, ICANN looks after it until there's a new government that is the recognised ruler of the country. Not perfect, but what's the alternative - gun battles over a server farm for the propaganda victory controlling the country's domain would be? Two conflicting DNSes for a country so users have to decide whether their browsers are supporting the loyalists or the revolutionaries, and hope that a militant group doesn't check your hosts file and shoot you for picking the wrong one?
OT but I built my own railgun pretty recently, they're fairly simple, you just need a couple of copper rails and a big capacitor, and something to fire.
Point, but AIUI there's still ongoing violence.and the Iraqi Provisional Government has been in authority for over a year. A national assembly was elected by the Iraqi people in January to draft a new constitution, which is close to being voted on.
How did that government get authority without the country having a constitution? Anyway, the lack of a constitution shows that the country's not yet fully functioning governmentally. Yes it's getting there, and I'd say once they have the constitution and elections under it then the new government can take control of the domain, but it's not there yet.
There's no clear legitimate government, they've just been invaded, have they even got a constitution yet? Who should have the TLD? Better ICANN holds it for the moment than giving it to the occupying US forces, who are the only candidate for the current government of iraq.
You have to remember, NAT's are not designed to screw things up, they should be transparent.
They're still nonstandard, any incompatibilities they cause are their fault.
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KDE on the other hand seems to pride itself on being as different as possible,
Odd, other gnome zealots criticise it for being a "bad windows knockoff". What exactly is "different" about it?
seems to be designed to make guesses as to what I want as opposed to asking me or simply doing the logical default,
KDE always asks you, wheras gnome always chooses the illogical default, IME.
and is largely irrellevant to most supposedly KDE-centric apps when it comes to running them on Gnome. I don't have to change out of Gnome for KDE for them to work in almost every case.
If gnome wasn't trying to lock you in it would be just as easy to use gnome apps in kde.
Oh, so gnome never did reverse the buttons in the confirmation dialog and confuse anyone actually trying to use the damn thing? And never switched nautilus to that stupid amiga-like "spatial" interface without even a preference to change it back? (The historical revisionists seem to have gotten away with this one actually, but you run 2.6.*0* and try and find the preference). And never replaced the file dialog with that horrible folded-up one that means you need an extra click to save anything, if you can find the folder to save it into at all in the tiny browsing viewport?
I've tried to use gnome. I don't bash it to fit in (I've probably lost more karma bashing gnome and java than on anything else), I bash it because it's horrible to use.
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News that isn't exciting is just stuff that happened. I wrote an email today, does that qualify as news?
Nah, crazy idea
Becuase they're the most popular. Of course that's a vicious circle situation, but in a business environment it's better to be wrong with everyone else.
What if they put a UNIX OS on that UNIX hardware of theirs.
I'd classify Linux as a UNIX OS.
Or what about Syllable, or SkyOS?
Lol. Wonderful as that would be, you try and find an admin who'll use those in a production environment.
It's usable in 64mb, and smooth as anything if you turn the eye candy off. 256mb and it runs perfectly with as much eyecandy as you want.
(not to mention that until the new plastik, I wanted to gouge my eyes out whenever I opened a Qt app)
So pick keramik in the friendly wizard that comes up when you first start it.
I guess blackbox for windows, litestep and the rest don't exist then
I'm running with composite on an 800mhz duron with 128mb ram, TNT2 and GF2. It's perfectly usable. Composite doesn't slow things down at all unless you're using the transparency anyway.
The conventional boundary is having enough mass to maintain a (near-) spherical shape, which Pluto certainly does. I say it's a planet, and so are any of these large enough to be spheres. Of course then we have to admit Ceres and Vesta, but that should have been done a long time ago, IMO.
But it does. Just about any decent-sized book you read will have passages that aren't in the right chronological position - they happened before the chapter before them, or after the next chapter. A newspaper doesn't print stories in the order they happened, rather they print the most important story first, even if that was a late-breaking one. Films often include flashbacks to previous events, or scenes simply out of order. I could go on.
The one quoted immediately below it. If you're too dumb to figure it out you don't deserve to read it.
Of course, we also have the classic:
"because it reads more logically."
"Why should I top post?"
Yet another feeble attempt to make it seem like top posting is the same as writing bottom-to-top. The quote and the reply are separate entities, and the fact that there's another post being replied to is completely ignored by such "demonstrations".
The only way he could prove it would be to release an exploit that gave a shell or similar, and we don't want that happening.
Lol, really? Visual Basic should get you thrown out the window more than anything else.
Only because the average user has been *trained* by bad messaging habits to read email that way.
No it doesn't. You interleave in the same way, just putting reply above quote rather than below. Observe.
Top-posting is fine (it annoys me, but its tolerable) if you are engaged in a single-threaded, IM-style conversation where you only have to answer one question at a time. When someone asks multiple, unrelated questions in a single email or touches on multiple topics that cannot all be dealt with in a single response, top-posting falls flat on its face.
Technical users have been taught by old boys to post in the way that was best when usenet was ridiculously unreliable and still mostly transported over UUCP. Now it actually works, but old-timers don't want to adjust, and old-timership is the only kind of status that exists on usenet.
The division on this issue seems to be squarely along business users and technical users. Most technical users have been trained in Usenet-style posting: trimmed messages, clear annotation, appropriate response. Business users have been trained by Microsoft - fire and forget.
Took me the best part of two minutes to load this discussion page, and getting a reply page took anoø!%$^$@£ NO CARRIER
I think it goes beyond mere fear of technology. Would you believe Skype is on the list of banned "P2P programs" at the university I'm going to in a few weeks?
Oh, wait.
Isn't FreeBSD committed to removing anything that isn't available under BSD license? That makes porting something non-BSD to it seem a step backwards.
It's still in the title, he said we all know why ["High Resolution Computer Graphics and Broadband"] advanced so quickly. Splitting that up into "We all know why [high resolution computer graphics] advanced so quickly" and "We all know why [broadband] advanced so quickly" is legit.
It's not as if the domains were taken away from someone who was running them properly. The .iq domain was (presumably) run by the Hussein government, which doesn't exist any more. Until a clear replacement arises, it makes sense for ICANN to keep them.
until that mayor and his state's governor can figure which of them works for who under what authority? That seems to be a somewhat contested issue at the moment.
The laws are there, there's no real prospect of any change in government or anything like that. You can't compare the situation there with what's going on in Iraq, it's a genuine warzone.
You could also say that the Sudan, or Lebannon don't deserve their own TLDs. Or how about the "stans" that operate essentially without any meaningful constitutional democracy.
They have well established governments, pretty solidly in power, normal diplomatic relations with just about everyone, UN membership etc. Democracy isn't a requirement to have an internet domain, but a recognised government is.
For that matter, what about China? Would you consider that oppressive, totalitarian regime the ideal owner of an enormously busy hunk of the internet's address space?
It's enormously busy becuase there are so many servers under that government, it's their own names. Anyway, yes, for the same reason, China's government is pretty much undisputed. Yes, there are rebels, but there don't seem to be real challengers - is there any real prospect of, say, the Republic of China government gaining control of the country in the near future? Wheras it seems to me there's a real prospect of any number of groups that could be ruling Iraq pretty soon. When the government that was running a TLD falls, ICANN looks after it until there's a new government that is the recognised ruler of the country. Not perfect, but what's the alternative - gun battles over a server farm for the propaganda victory controlling the country's domain would be? Two conflicting DNSes for a country so users have to decide whether their browsers are supporting the loyalists or the revolutionaries, and hope that a militant group doesn't check your hosts file and shoot you for picking the wrong one?
OT but I built my own railgun pretty recently, they're fairly simple, you just need a couple of copper rails and a big capacitor, and something to fire.
By all means, change US law, but at the moment they're doing nothing more or less than what they legally have to.
Point, but AIUI there's still ongoing violence.and the Iraqi Provisional Government has been in authority for over a year. A national assembly was elected by the Iraqi people in January to draft a new constitution, which is close to being voted on.
How did that government get authority without the country having a constitution? Anyway, the lack of a constitution shows that the country's not yet fully functioning governmentally. Yes it's getting there, and I'd say once they have the constitution and elections under it then the new government can take control of the domain, but it's not there yet.
There's no clear legitimate government, they've just been invaded, have they even got a constitution yet? Who should have the TLD? Better ICANN holds it for the moment than giving it to the occupying US forces, who are the only candidate for the current government of iraq.
They're still nonstandard, any incompatibilities they cause are their fault.
Odd, other gnome zealots criticise it for being a "bad windows knockoff". What exactly is "different" about it?
seems to be designed to make guesses as to what I want as opposed to asking me or simply doing the logical default,
KDE always asks you, wheras gnome always chooses the illogical default, IME.
and is largely irrellevant to most supposedly KDE-centric apps when it comes to running them on Gnome. I don't have to change out of Gnome for KDE for them to work in almost every case.
If gnome wasn't trying to lock you in it would be just as easy to use gnome apps in kde.
I've tried to use gnome. I don't bash it to fit in (I've probably lost more karma bashing gnome and java than on anything else), I bash it because it's horrible to use.