They were not military targets. They were industrial targets, and the ones who did most of the dying were civilians. I'm not saying conventional attacks like Dresden or Kobe were better - they weren't - but an attack on civilians is never legitimate, even if it's in the interest of shortening the war.
The Chinese and other asians might have a claim to justification in terms of revenge, but nothing much had happened for the Americans, and it wasn't as if the US was particularly fond of those people (you were happily dropping napalm on them a few decades later). The number of civillians killed in those two attacks is comparable to the US's total casualties over the entire war in both theaters.
It may have resulted in less deaths, but in my view deaths of soldiers are acceptable in war, wheras death of civilians isn't. The attacks have killed about 100000 people who weren't even born at the time. If that's not innocent, I don't know what is.
Oh yes, because once one side has committed an atrocity they're no longer human, and anything is justified. That's the kind of logic that keeps bitter ethnic conflicts going for 30 years, children living their whole lives knowing nothing but getting them because of what they did to us, and then they'll get us because of what we just did to them. An atrocity is an atrocity is an atrocity, no matter what the other side did.
MS wins by bundling one that's "good enough", even if it's very bad in terms of features people won't bother to find out about the alternatives. Wheras by having to ensure people like windows media player enough to download it, MS is forced to include features the equal of their competitors.
That ad cracks me up all the time, with things like the infamous "new and used japanese sushi", or "new and used linux news". Can be scary on occasion though, while doing some research I saw an ad for "new and used W80 warhead on ebay". I certainly hope not.
Wars are important, but the one thing that separates us from the animals is that we have rules of war. It's about force and death, but there are points where we say that's too far. Attacks on civillians are one of those points. If they were carrying weapons and fighting fair enough, but they weren't. They were civillians and it was wrong to kill them.
I don't think it would come down to total war with everyone dying, but even if it did that is/their right/. But until they take up arms, they are civillians, and you *do* *not* *kill* *civillians*.
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Also, bear in mind it takes more delta-V to go to the Moon than to Mars. (You can't aerobrake on the moon since it doesn't have an atmosphere). So if you've got the engines to lift x tonnes to the moon, they can lift more than that to Mars. Of course, the trip's longer to Mars, so you need more supplies. But using the moon as a "stepping stone" doesn't help any, since the only way there's going to be supplies on the moon is if we put them there - and in that case we had enough rocket to just put them on mars.
Mandrake is/there/ when it comes to the DE. Really, use it. KDE with their lovely galaxy theme, and gnome set up to match it so you barely notice the difference in applications. Menus set up with descriptions over program names, so you just need to look for "web browser" or whatever. GUI package management that, while far from perfect, works wonderfully if you stick to Mandrake repositories and well enough if you get a few programs from elsewhere. It's good enough to go for the critical mass. All that's keeping them off it is inertia. However, it's starting to ship with cheap PCs, so even that may be about to change.
Use python, then you don't have to worry about it.
The fact that you can suggests to me that trolltech wouldn't require moc when using c++ unless they had to.
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The output options are cool, but mplayer always used to break up in wmv videos with "m-type picture isn't supported" (or similar). Since keyframes are very rare in wmvs (no more than one every couple of seconds usually) this would really disrupt the video, enough to make it unwatchable. I think they may have fixed that now though.
when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. It's the best mouse I've ever had, something that feels like it's actually trying to help me. Scrolls horizontally and vertically (works in everything except gtk1, but gtk1 sucks so that's understandable. Side note: why don't people upgrade?). It's been through 3 different computers. You're not having it!
That's the home desktop version, and they gave a lot of warning about the abnormally short support cycle. Compare it to redhat's enterprise line, since we're talking about a corporate setting.
It's not protection. It's just making things prettier, it doens't make the computer any more secure at all. In fact, it makes it less secure, because clueless noobs think they know what they're doing. It's good for a computer to be a little bit intimidating, to make sure users are cautious. It's the luser who thinks he knows what he's doing that's the most dangerous (I know from experience of what I did. When I was green I was fine, didn't mess with things I should have. When I knew a bit and thought I knew everything, that was when I messed up systems)
Most people don't care if they're using quicktime, realplayer, windows media player etc. They probably won't even notice the difference. But if there wasn't the choice, then they would notice, because the media player available would suck if it had no competition to drive it on. People don't realise it's important to them that there's competition between MS and real (if they did, there wouldn't be any need for the EU to act, people could sort it out themselves). But that doesn't mean it isn't.
Yes, they did. Back in "the day" viruses were often written in hand-coded assembly. That was craftsmanship, that was/misty eyes. Seriously, visual basic is used mainly for two reasons. Firstly, most virus writers are fairly immature (except those trying to get botnets for money) and visual basic is often the first language they learn. Secondly, visual basic scripts include their source, thus if you want to base your virus on an existing one, it's a lot easier to do with a visual basic one than decompiling a virus and trying to make sense of it. Any other dynamic language would work for this, but windows ships with visual basic interpreter wheras it doesn't include one for perl, python etc. (and dos scripting is too useless)
If only. There was a libjpeg vulnerability not so long ago that could be used to execute arbitrary code just by displaying a message with a jpeg in outlook or OE. So I wouldn't be surprised if there was a virus based around jpegs.
No, but I avoid web forums in favour of usenet wherever possible (I make an exception for here). As far as filesharing is concerned I tend to use good old gnutella, works fine, gets little attention, and has a protocol I can understand.
I would have thought the US of all countries would have learnt not to outlaw recreational drugs. Whilst I don't see it happening under the current administration or even in the near future, once people have seen again and again that the current drugs policy isn't working, and the old people who grew up without drugs, and eventually without current drugs policy, have died, people will start turning out in favour of legalisation.
It depends how much they publish. They've added to it, but if they publish their extensions then it is at least in principle a much easier task to implement them than the mostly undocumented win32 API. And gnustep as it currently is is a far better starting point than scratch. While it will be non-trivial, I don't think it will be as difficult as wine.
No, I'm just a poor user trying to burn my cds in linux. I now understand it's a problem with my specific drive (Cyberdrive CW058D) but it worked under 2.4 with ide-scsi, it doesn't work under 2.6 either with the same version of cdrecord that worked under 2.4 or withthe latest alpha (I've tried with and without ide-scsi), and cdrdao doesn't do all I want. All in all I'm more than a little pissed off with both of them, but since the same version works under 2.4 (and there's linus screaming there's no reason at all to use ide-scsi, I have a fucking reason my fucking cd burner doesn't fucking work without it), I'm more pissed off with Linus.
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Is it me or does the woman in the pic on that site look a lot like Kwan Boa?
What if they're exe files you did download, because they look to be warez games or something?
The Chinese and other asians might have a claim to justification in terms of revenge, but nothing much had happened for the Americans, and it wasn't as if the US was particularly fond of those people (you were happily dropping napalm on them a few decades later). The number of civillians killed in those two attacks is comparable to the US's total casualties over the entire war in both theaters.
It may have resulted in less deaths, but in my view deaths of soldiers are acceptable in war, wheras death of civilians isn't. The attacks have killed about 100000 people who weren't even born at the time. If that's not innocent, I don't know what is.
Oh yes, because once one side has committed an atrocity they're no longer human, and anything is justified. That's the kind of logic that keeps bitter ethnic conflicts going for 30 years, children living their whole lives knowing nothing but getting them because of what they did to us, and then they'll get us because of what we just did to them. An atrocity is an atrocity is an atrocity, no matter what the other side did.
MS wins by bundling one that's "good enough", even if it's very bad in terms of features people won't bother to find out about the alternatives. Wheras by having to ensure people like windows media player enough to download it, MS is forced to include features the equal of their competitors.
I wonder if that's the same Gord who wrote the Gord's synth soundfont. Because if so, we now know who he is!
Huh? Don't get me wrong, I hate java, but it's pretty much the only decent way to put a program in a browser. What else would you use, flash?
That ad cracks me up all the time, with things like the infamous "new and used japanese sushi", or "new and used linux news". Can be scary on occasion though, while doing some research I saw an ad for "new and used W80 warhead on ebay". I certainly hope not.
The reason they shocked is they were an atrocity. Eating a thousand Japanese babies would have had the same impact.
I don't think it would come down to total war with everyone dying, but even if it did that is /their right/. But until they take up arms, they are civillians, and you *do* *not* *kill* *civillians*.
Also, bear in mind it takes more delta-V to go to the Moon than to Mars. (You can't aerobrake on the moon since it doesn't have an atmosphere). So if you've got the engines to lift x tonnes to the moon, they can lift more than that to Mars. Of course, the trip's longer to Mars, so you need more supplies. But using the moon as a "stepping stone" doesn't help any, since the only way there's going to be supplies on the moon is if we put them there - and in that case we had enough rocket to just put them on mars.
Mandrake is /there/ when it comes to the DE. Really, use it. KDE with their lovely galaxy theme, and gnome set up to match it so you barely notice the difference in applications. Menus set up with descriptions over program names, so you just need to look for "web browser" or whatever. GUI package management that, while far from perfect, works wonderfully if you stick to Mandrake repositories and well enough if you get a few programs from elsewhere. It's good enough to go for the critical mass. All that's keeping them off it is inertia. However, it's starting to ship with cheap PCs, so even that may be about to change.
The fact that you can suggests to me that trolltech wouldn't require moc when using c++ unless they had to.
The output options are cool, but mplayer always used to break up in wmv videos with "m-type picture isn't supported" (or similar). Since keyframes are very rare in wmvs (no more than one every couple of seconds usually) this would really disrupt the video, enough to make it unwatchable. I think they may have fixed that now though.
when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. It's the best mouse I've ever had, something that feels like it's actually trying to help me. Scrolls horizontally and vertically (works in everything except gtk1, but gtk1 sucks so that's understandable. Side note: why don't people upgrade?). It's been through 3 different computers. You're not having it!
That's the home desktop version, and they gave a lot of warning about the abnormally short support cycle. Compare it to redhat's enterprise line, since we're talking about a corporate setting.
It's not protection. It's just making things prettier, it doens't make the computer any more secure at all. In fact, it makes it less secure, because clueless noobs think they know what they're doing. It's good for a computer to be a little bit intimidating, to make sure users are cautious. It's the luser who thinks he knows what he's doing that's the most dangerous (I know from experience of what I did. When I was green I was fine, didn't mess with things I should have. When I knew a bit and thought I knew everything, that was when I messed up systems)
What's your problem with vnc?
Most people don't care if they're using quicktime, realplayer, windows media player etc. They probably won't even notice the difference. But if there wasn't the choice, then they would notice, because the media player available would suck if it had no competition to drive it on. People don't realise it's important to them that there's competition between MS and real (if they did, there wouldn't be any need for the EU to act, people could sort it out themselves). But that doesn't mean it isn't.
Yes, they did. Back in "the day" viruses were often written in hand-coded assembly. That was craftsmanship, that was /misty eyes. Seriously, visual basic is used mainly for two reasons. Firstly, most virus writers are fairly immature (except those trying to get botnets for money) and visual basic is often the first language they learn. Secondly, visual basic scripts include their source, thus if you want to base your virus on an existing one, it's a lot easier to do with a visual basic one than decompiling a virus and trying to make sense of it. Any other dynamic language would work for this, but windows ships with visual basic interpreter wheras it doesn't include one for perl, python etc. (and dos scripting is too useless)
If only. There was a libjpeg vulnerability not so long ago that could be used to execute arbitrary code just by displaying a message with a jpeg in outlook or OE. So I wouldn't be surprised if there was a virus based around jpegs.
No, but I avoid web forums in favour of usenet wherever possible (I make an exception for here). As far as filesharing is concerned I tend to use good old gnutella, works fine, gets little attention, and has a protocol I can understand.
I would have thought the US of all countries would have learnt not to outlaw recreational drugs. Whilst I don't see it happening under the current administration or even in the near future, once people have seen again and again that the current drugs policy isn't working, and the old people who grew up without drugs, and eventually without current drugs policy, have died, people will start turning out in favour of legalisation.
It depends how much they publish. They've added to it, but if they publish their extensions then it is at least in principle a much easier task to implement them than the mostly undocumented win32 API. And gnustep as it currently is is a far better starting point than scratch. While it will be non-trivial, I don't think it will be as difficult as wine.
No, I'm just a poor user trying to burn my cds in linux. I now understand it's a problem with my specific drive (Cyberdrive CW058D) but it worked under 2.4 with ide-scsi, it doesn't work under 2.6 either with the same version of cdrecord that worked under 2.4 or withthe latest alpha (I've tried with and without ide-scsi), and cdrdao doesn't do all I want. All in all I'm more than a little pissed off with both of them, but since the same version works under 2.4 (and there's linus screaming there's no reason at all to use ide-scsi, I have a fucking reason my fucking cd burner doesn't fucking work without it), I'm more pissed off with Linus.