...when Conan32 spelt "hypocrisy" correctly, and both eraserewind and NanoGator had it right there on their screens to reply to, they both spelt it wrong?
Well... www.oka.com.au seems a bit, kinda... obvious? (-:
This guy seems to like them, and ironically enough also links to Land Rover. Go figure. The Dual Cab seems to be most popular here in Oz, the Multi Cab (into which you can crush 12 people with some configurations!) is not much less popular, and fitted to carry 12 would be nice.
A decent 50m reflector (big piece of light foil alloy with platinum-wire structure, Bucky Fuller would love it) ought to make a dandy weapon. Not much chance of dodging and if you collated all of that sunlight down to a beam 0.5m across you would be putting about ten megawatts per square meter into your target. For up to several hours at a time.
The same distributed electronics needed to focus such a disc for astronomy would work just as well for walking it through a terrorist camp or turning a cave hideout into a pressure-cooker.
If someone explains this to Dubya, Hubble's replacement will be up by 2007, and giving us unbelievable resolution.
...that of the thousand or so people killed by starvation and disease every hour, day and night, the vast majority were put in this position by regimes which follow the same religion as you do.
You almost certainly do not think of it as or call it a religion and would probably argue that neither Materialism nor Naturalism were religious positions, because of this bizarre idea that a certain amount of stained glass or chanting has to be involved for it to qualify as a religion - or at least a priest (think Richard Dawkins) - but that doesn't stop the underlying philosophy from being, hah, fundamentally religious.
The end result of all such pogroms has so far been death and destruction, the bankrupting and degrading of the societies involved - yes, including the nominal winners.
Deism per se isn't the problem; even the relatively bad deists (think Inquisition or ritual sacrifices atop Mayan step-pyramids) can't hold a candle to the twin evils of "might makes right" (AKA "survival of the fittest") and "the end justifies the means". The means are the end.
Back on topic, despite massive technical and financial shortfalls in many disciplines, the Russians have kept within hailing distance of the USA in the space race by accepting greater risk levels; imagine what would happen if the West also had the courage to do a few things without insurance in quadruplicate. I'm not talking about the kind of administrative insanity which led to Chernobyl, but the willingness to potentially add 0.0001% to the world's death toll in order to flood the place with the kind of cheap energy and materials which would end starvation and disease within a decade (and, en passant, the population explosion: the way to stop people from overbreeding is to make them rich).
If I was going to space, I'd rather not die trying, but I'd rather die than not try. The resources to eliminate much pollution, clearfelling and other general crapping-in-our-own-nest are within reach and the only reason we aren't already tapped into them is our immediate fear and greed short-circuiting any serious long-term investment.
Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili (AKA Zakhar Grigoryan Melikyants AKA Joseph Stalin) Idi Amin Dada [I'm trying not to get this thread canned so I won't mention Eva Braun's husband lest it invoke G------'s Law] Don Inigo Lopez de Recalde (AKA Ignatius Loyola) The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Mao Zedong Demoiselle Candeille's worshippers (append your favourites here)
Not hard to see why the framers of the US Constitution acted as they did.
BTW, next time you hear "but nobody's complaining," point out that (1) Adolph was elected by popular vote; and (2) very few people complained about him and his crew<*> until it was waaaay too late.
<*> whom I have deliberately invoked to terminate the thread.
...have well-written, comprehensive, low-level instructions for building packages properly, but it's nice to see a well-written piece which is a bit more "meta" and general than that as well.
For a self-contained YAKoSoSBP<*>, no worries, but for anything serious you have to futz around lots to avoid DLL collisions and registry slapdown games. On Linux or BSD, I just put in the dependencies and let URPMI/yum/apt/YAST sort it out. Different versions of shared libraries are delighted to coexist, BoC you don't need to do that, see below.
Anyway, why do you need to ship an installer at all, isn't the OS supposed to provide that kind of plumbing? And what happens when the user gets to WinCE on ARM or something like that? I can post a.src.rpm for people whose distros or architectures I haven't explicitly packaged for, can you? The.src.rpm also allows seamless integration with systems running on odd versions of shardd libraries, one simply does a wone-liner (or one-click) rebuild of the offending.src.rpm and viola, all dependencies solved.
<*> YAKoSoSBP == Yet Another Kind of Solitaire or Sliding Block Puzzle
...after that, you need a tilt-tray or a crane to remove them.
The older ones were too heavy to fly, but damn near indestructible.
The funny ones are Range Rovers. Here in Oz, the spinifex grass gets wedged in between the cover plates and the exhaust in various places, and then catches fire. To know what a spinifex fire is like, fluff up a bale of hay nice and loose, douse it well in turps and throw in a burning match. Hints: stand well back; don't do it near anything (else) flammable; kiss your eyebrows and lashes goodbye. Imagine this happening under your vehicle on a plain packed with the stuff from horizon to horizon and at least 200km from civilisation. Run upwind.
My favourite offroad toy (if I had the money for offroad toys) would be an Oka. A bit too heavy but carries lots and eats Unimogs and the like before breakfast as far as actually getting places is concerned.
...since it would work with all existing PS systems.
OpenDocument is still, IMESHO, ideal for documents where exact layout is not critical. E.g. you can whomp up a wordprocessed document in A4 land and still print it out in US-Letter land without having to pull funny tricks with the printer queues.
The last thing we want is for the fixed-layout formats to become swamped in pointless wannabee-SVG bells and whistles (mutant PDF/Flash spawn) or 0\/\/n3rz3d by a hostile/selfish interest (Metro).
IMESHO PS (and so PDF) are both too powerful for this task. Or to put it another way, since there are a zillion different ways to represent text in PS, there are also a zillion different ways to push the limits on (and break) the various PS interpreters, and a zillion different ways to make content recovery difficult and imperfect. Perhaps we could use a limited subset of PS as a standard, and gzip it? But who would regulate such a standard?
The US dudes making the decisions thought they were, which is what matters. They also thought they'd be cute about it, which was not a particularly bright approach to people who have been immersed since birth in a culture where multi-level messages and indirection are the norm.
I think the Tupelov-fearers would have had massive coronary palpitations when Mark got to the fuelling-tech anecdote, though. (-:
...Apache, OpenSSHd and PostgreSQL all run just fine on XP Home. $0 each, simple to install and configure.
A Mac Mini RRPs for about AUD$799 here sans screen and with OS X bundled. I'll ring them tomorrow and find out if and how much for one without OS X. I can build a near-equivalent x86 whitebox (40GB HDD, 256MB RAM) for about AUD$450. If I could buy a naked PowerPC box of any physical size from Apple for about $550, I would be recommending them to customers like there was no tomorrow. Runs Linux but not x86 cracks, doesn't run Windows. Paradise.
Beige box for slightly less than the price of an x86 whitebox, that runs Linux just fine and can never run MS-Windows nor x86 exploits.
Hmm.
This is too good to be true. Where's the catch?
Probably here: Apple can see no profitable reason to do it. I'll bet that a substantial number of Mac Minis now run Linux, and that if Apple dropped the price of an entry-level machine even further by selling a non-tiny one, they might wind up in the embarrassing situation of having more Macs running Linux than OS X. Never mind having t0t4l 0\/\/n3r5h!p of the desktop hardware market, we're gonna dummy-spit on 3... 2... 1...
...on porting this all to OpenOffice Calc, Gnumeric and KSpread.
Or to put it another way, Microsoft must pop another champers every time someone does something like this. Part of their announced current strategy is to get people locked into MS Office's foibles (presumably for monopolistic exploitation yet again, which says something about the effectiveness of the US-DoJ - and won't it be fun if the EU takes exception to that?) and this book looks like a dead-centre component of just such a strategy.
Have a guess what one of the el-primo blockers for Linux adoption in the enterprise is?
If things break half as often because of what I've done, I do half as much work, I can charge half as much again for my work and the customer spends 25% less on me than on a competitor advocating less, um, safe software. The customer's machinery also works more reliably, so they get more work done and live in less fear of stuff vanishing from under their hands.
IRL, I "visit" a typical Linux server (I do mostly servers) by remote control about twice a year and in person about once a year on average. OTOH I will typically need to visit an MS-Windows server in person about every two months (some better, some much worse). This makes the billable-time ratio about 3:1. "Aaak!" the traditionalist says, "you have 1/3 of the income!" Not so. I am able to support 3x as many clients, charge 50% more for my time, and yet provide double the value.
Workstation differences are even more pronounced, since users have a far greater ability to break things on MS-Windows, which synergises very effectively with MS-Windows' ability to spontaneously break itself.
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They only wanted me for the licence fee! I feel so used...
...when Conan32 spelt "hypocrisy" correctly, and both eraserewind and NanoGator had it right there on their screens to reply to, they both spelt it wrong?
<thwack!>
...the code they're rewriting has not been substantially changed since the days when GIF was king of the images.
AFAICT, what they've finally added is genuine translucency (not the simple yes/no transparency of yore) to MSIE's image handlng.
Does anyone know of any other (non-text-mode) web browser which hasn't already been doing translucency for years?
Well... www.oka.com.au seems a bit, kinda... obvious? (-:
This guy seems to like them, and ironically enough also links to Land Rover. Go figure. The Dual Cab seems to be most popular here in Oz, the Multi Cab (into which you can crush 12 people with some configurations!) is not much less popular, and fitted to carry 12 would be nice.
Konqueror displays partial images as they download. The original friggin' browser in OS/2 did the same thing. It's hardly new.
Think about it: what's the whole purpose in Progressive-mode JPEGs?
/ME reads a +3 Scroll of Get Sucked Into Jet Engine to the AC loser.
A decent 50m reflector (big piece of light foil alloy with platinum-wire structure, Bucky Fuller would love it) ought to make a dandy weapon. Not much chance of dodging and if you collated all of that sunlight down to a beam 0.5m across you would be putting about ten megawatts per square meter into your target. For up to several hours at a time.
The same distributed electronics needed to focus such a disc for astronomy would work just as well for walking it through a terrorist camp or turning a cave hideout into a pressure-cooker.
If someone explains this to Dubya, Hubble's replacement will be up by 2007, and giving us unbelievable resolution.
...that of the thousand or so people killed by starvation and disease every hour, day and night, the vast majority were put in this position by regimes which follow the same religion as you do.
You almost certainly do not think of it as or call it a religion and would probably argue that neither Materialism nor Naturalism were religious positions, because of this bizarre idea that a certain amount of stained glass or chanting has to be involved for it to qualify as a religion - or at least a priest (think Richard Dawkins) - but that doesn't stop the underlying philosophy from being, hah, fundamentally religious.
The end result of all such pogroms has so far been death and destruction, the bankrupting and degrading of the societies involved - yes, including the nominal winners.
Deism per se isn't the problem; even the relatively bad deists (think Inquisition or ritual sacrifices atop Mayan step-pyramids) can't hold a candle to the twin evils of "might makes right" (AKA "survival of the fittest") and "the end justifies the means". The means are the end.
Back on topic, despite massive technical and financial shortfalls in many disciplines, the Russians have kept within hailing distance of the USA in the space race by accepting greater risk levels; imagine what would happen if the West also had the courage to do a few things without insurance in quadruplicate. I'm not talking about the kind of administrative insanity which led to Chernobyl, but the willingness to potentially add 0.0001% to the world's death toll in order to flood the place with the kind of cheap energy and materials which would end starvation and disease within a decade (and, en passant, the population explosion: the way to stop people from overbreeding is to make them rich).
If I was going to space, I'd rather not die trying, but I'd rather die than not try. The resources to eliminate much pollution, clearfelling and other general crapping-in-our-own-nest are within reach and the only reason we aren't already tapped into them is our immediate fear and greed short-circuiting any serious long-term investment.
Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili (AKA Zakhar Grigoryan Melikyants AKA Joseph Stalin)
Idi Amin Dada
[I'm trying not to get this thread canned so I won't mention Eva Braun's husband lest it invoke G------'s Law]
Don Inigo Lopez de Recalde (AKA Ignatius Loyola)
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Mao Zedong
Demoiselle Candeille's worshippers
(append your favourites here)
Not hard to see why the framers of the US Constitution acted as they did.
...when the revolution comes. (ObHHGttGRef)
...if you want to disband their shiny new Reich.
BTW, next time you hear "but nobody's complaining," point out that (1) Adolph was elected by popular vote; and (2) very few people complained about him and his crew<*> until it was waaaay too late.
<*> whom I have deliberately invoked to terminate the thread.
...have well-written, comprehensive, low-level instructions for building packages properly, but it's nice to see a well-written piece which is a bit more "meta" and general than that as well.
The instructions even work with their "Stoned Penguin" LoopyEdition2005 release. (-:
For a self-contained YAKoSoSBP<*>, no worries, but for anything serious you have to futz around lots to avoid DLL collisions and registry slapdown games. On Linux or BSD, I just put in the dependencies and let URPMI/yum/apt/YAST sort it out. Different versions of shared libraries are delighted to coexist, BoC you don't need to do that, see below.
.src.rpm for people whose distros or architectures I haven't explicitly packaged for, can you? The .src.rpm also allows seamless integration with systems running on odd versions of shardd libraries, one simply does a wone-liner (or one-click) rebuild of the offending .src.rpm and viola, all dependencies solved.
Anyway, why do you need to ship an installer at all, isn't the OS supposed to provide that kind of plumbing? And what happens when the user gets to WinCE on ARM or something like that? I can post a
<*> YAKoSoSBP == Yet Another Kind of Solitaire or Sliding Block Puzzle
...after that, you need a tilt-tray or a crane to remove them.
The older ones were too heavy to fly, but damn near indestructible.
The funny ones are Range Rovers. Here in Oz, the spinifex grass gets wedged in between the cover plates and the exhaust in various places, and then catches fire. To know what a spinifex fire is like, fluff up a bale of hay nice and loose, douse it well in turps and throw in a burning match. Hints: stand well back; don't do it near anything (else) flammable; kiss your eyebrows and lashes goodbye. Imagine this happening under your vehicle on a plain packed with the stuff from horizon to horizon and at least 200km from civilisation. Run upwind.
My favourite offroad toy (if I had the money for offroad toys) would be an Oka. A bit too heavy but carries lots and eats Unimogs and the like before breakfast as far as actually getting places is concerned.
There appears to be some doubt. Links welcome.
They've stripped practically everything innovative from it and backported the rest to XP, making Shorthorn big, fat and hairy but not a deal.
Havaing a look at Einstein's other interests is a worthwhile exercise too.
...since it would work with all existing PS systems.
OpenDocument is still, IMESHO, ideal for documents where exact layout is not critical. E.g. you can whomp up a wordprocessed document in A4 land and still print it out in US-Letter land without having to pull funny tricks with the printer queues.
The last thing we want is for the fixed-layout formats to become swamped in pointless wannabee-SVG bells and whistles (mutant PDF/Flash spawn) or 0\/\/n3rz3d by a hostile/selfish interest (Metro).
...ibFirebird with OS X?
Excellent tastefully understated sarcasm. (-:
IMESHO PS (and so PDF) are both too powerful for this task. Or to put it another way, since there are a zillion different ways to represent text in PS, there are also a zillion different ways to push the limits on (and break) the various PS interpreters, and a zillion different ways to make content recovery difficult and imperfect. Perhaps we could use a limited subset of PS as a standard, and gzip it? But who would regulate such a standard?
The US dudes making the decisions thought they were, which is what matters. They also thought they'd be cute about it, which was not a particularly bright approach to people who have been immersed since birth in a culture where multi-level messages and indirection are the norm.
I think the Tupelov-fearers would have had massive coronary palpitations when Mark got to the fuelling-tech anecdote, though. (-:
...Apache, OpenSSHd and PostgreSQL all run just fine on XP Home. $0 each, simple to install and configure.
A Mac Mini RRPs for about AUD$799 here sans screen and with OS X bundled. I'll ring them tomorrow and find out if and how much for one without OS X. I can build a near-equivalent x86 whitebox (40GB HDD, 256MB RAM) for about AUD$450. If I could buy a naked PowerPC box of any physical size from Apple for about $550, I would be recommending them to customers like there was no tomorrow. Runs Linux but not x86 cracks, doesn't run Windows. Paradise.
Beige box for slightly less than the price of an x86 whitebox, that runs Linux just fine and can never run MS-Windows nor x86 exploits.
Hmm.
This is too good to be true. Where's the catch?
Probably here: Apple can see no profitable reason to do it. I'll bet that a substantial number of Mac Minis now run Linux, and that if Apple dropped the price of an entry-level machine even further by selling a non-tiny one, they might wind up in the embarrassing situation of having more Macs running Linux than OS X. Never mind having t0t4l 0\/\/n3r5h!p of the desktop hardware market, we're gonna dummy-spit on 3... 2... 1...
...on porting this all to OpenOffice Calc, Gnumeric and KSpread.
Or to put it another way, Microsoft must pop another champers every time someone does something like this. Part of their announced current strategy is to get people locked into MS Office's foibles (presumably for monopolistic exploitation yet again, which says something about the effectiveness of the US-DoJ - and won't it be fun if the EU takes exception to that?) and this book looks like a dead-centre component of just such a strategy.
Have a guess what one of the el-primo blockers for Linux adoption in the enterprise is?
Can y'all say it with me? "LEMMINGS!" )-:
Besides which, I get to charge more.
How does this work?
If things break half as often because of what I've done, I do half as much work, I can charge half as much again for my work and the customer spends 25% less on me than on a competitor advocating less, um, safe software. The customer's machinery also works more reliably, so they get more work done and live in less fear of stuff vanishing from under their hands.
IRL, I "visit" a typical Linux server (I do mostly servers) by remote control about twice a year and in person about once a year on average. OTOH I will typically need to visit an MS-Windows server in person about every two months (some better, some much worse). This makes the billable-time ratio about 3:1. "Aaak!" the traditionalist says, "you have 1/3 of the income!" Not so. I am able to support 3x as many clients, charge 50% more for my time, and yet provide double the value.
Workstation differences are even more pronounced, since users have a far greater ability to break things on MS-Windows, which synergises very effectively with MS-Windows' ability to spontaneously break itself.