your statement itself contains a hidden discouragement: against atheism, which is not a religion
Of course it's a religion, else English ain't English... or Latin ain't Latin, take your pick.
A-theism is the religion of no God. There is no such thing as "no religion", the closest you'll come is "not interested" but even there you have to make some basic assumptions [pun not intended but I'll leave it there anyway] in order to be able to run your life.
Such as this one:
A lot of important science raises serious questions that make people of many religions uncomfortable.
Yes, especially Atheism - but that science is somewhat ruthlessly suppressed by the Atheist/Humanist scientific establishment.
Links by the bucketload are available on demand, but a recent classic to get you started was a report in Nature [431, 114 (09 September 2004); doi:10.1038/431114a]. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute (an Intelligent Design (ID) organisation) submitted an article to the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington [117, 213239; 2004 - vol 117 no 2 pp 213-239] and after 3 well-accredited peers unanimously approved the article it was published.
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) promptly complained, and they and others browbeat Proceedings into promising never to publish an article from an ID or Creationist proponent again. Such science! Such impartiality! A threat to Atheism arises and they face it with... logic? No! With an Index Librorum Prohibitorum! Welcome back to the dark ages and the reign Pope Me.
The crowning glory of this hypocrisy is that NCSE claims that neither ID nor Creationism are scientific. Why not? Because you don't see their articles in peer-reviewed journals! Like, derrrr... I wonder why? Help me out here: should I follow up with a <thwack> or a <ta-dish-boom>? Is this funny or just sad?
...(hi, Bruce!) rigged his car up with a pair of sirens under the dashboard rated at 105dB at 3m. One night while he was at work, he heard the sirens from downstairs and went haring down to see. He found:
His car, a Holden HZ sedan, with the door open; and
His steering column partially disassembled; and
Traces of blood and hair on assorted knobs and corners under the dash and on the door; and
No car thief.
You see, 105dB at 3m in free space equals 117dB at about 40cm, which was the approximate distance between the screamers and the thief's ears as he lay in the footwell jiggering the ignition switch on the steering column.
This is in a mostly-enclosed hard-walled space, which has to be worth at least another 12dB. And there were two of them, so add another 3dB as icing on the cake, draw a line, 132dB.
The threshold of pain, for reference, is 120dB.
If you're going to bother building a car alarm, get it right. (-:
Come and live off any beaten tracks and 50km outside Albany, Western Australia. The local crims are too lazy to visit, but connectivity is a bit of a pig.
If a crim hurts themselves on a farm in a "locked paddock" (means you left it with a sealed fence-line and locks on each gate, even if they're piddly little tokens), they're going to have a tough time drawing out any sympathy.
"So you walked into a harrow? Well, we do leave these things standing around in paddocks you know. It's a farm. The paddock was locked, after all. You walked into it seventeen times, despite prompt assistance from the farmer? Dang, that was careless of you. Next."
...they would have started doing so a long time ago. The lunatics in charge of that particular asylum have an irrational streak of invincibility syndrome. "Buzz wouldn't do that!" "3!" "He would."
If you have a look at MS' history, they wrote precious little of their own stuff. People keep lists, but even lots of stuff not on the lists 'coz it's no longer current (e.g. MultiPlan) was not written by them, so I'd be totally unsurprised if they'd got someone else to craft those as well.
Probably preaching to the choir on this one, but if you only use crappy fonts, you will not ever get good results.
There are plenty of good, free TTFs kicking around, starting with the Microsoft ones (yes Rheba, before they realised that competitors could use them too, the Evil Empire released some of the good things they make, for free. It's difficult to make insecure fonts, but I'm sure they tried:-).
I've had people walk up to Mandrake machines, use them for a day, and walk away not realising that it wasn't MS-Windows. If I switched those boxes to XPDE instead of KDE and did a little tweaking, I'm sure it would be easy to fool ten times as many people - if that was my aim.
I was using my laptop (running Mandrake Linux) at a private function last week, and a 10yob I know came up, looked oddly at the screen for a few minutes, then asked "Which Windows are you using?" It took about 15 minutes and much repetition to mostly-convince him that it wasn't running MS-Windows at all, but rather KDE on Linux. This is the level of ignorance we face. This kid knows his own machine inside out, as well as a non-programmer possibly could, but had no clue that anything other than MS-Windows ever existed.
Both Mandrake and SuSE do the font thing well, including different aliasing at different sizes.
I haven't seriously tried other distros for a while but seem to remember some of the Debian-based distros (Gentoo, Knoppix) being happy out of the box nowadays, and probably Lin{spire,dows,insertsuffixhere} but that has other issues you don't want to have to deal with.
If you use the download edition of Mandrake, set it up with the Contribs as a URPMI source, and manually pull down a few things (Flash player, Win32 CoDecs and the like) from the Penguin Liberation Front sites. Using PLF wide throttle is a bit risky, but cherry-picking only extras instead of replacing standard packages as well seems to work well. I've also tacked together a few extras of my own here, but that's a skinny DSL line; please don't melt it down.
The argument that someone needs to "manage developer resources" in OSS is completely bunk. OSS didn't get where it is today by forming a central economy of software projects. OSS is about freedom and fair competition. A defining quality of Open Source has been: there are no managers!
Seconded, except that I'd not assert that there are no managers. There are indeed managers, but they aren't ubiquitous and required as they would be in a traditional setting.
Most FOSS managers are as much developers, which helps them to keep a lot more closely in touch with what the code is doing than even a highly talented manager would. There is a place in FOSS for highly talented managers sans coding skills, too - it's just that many (almost certainly most) little tinpot FOSS projects would suffer from having one rather than benefit.
A skilled manager knows when to manage lightly, and FOSS is all about lightly managed massive asynchronous parallelism (no, that's not quite an oxymoron). A deft management touch here and there can help to cut gordian knots without "crushing the butterfly".
If it then works, what's happening is that the GMail folks are checking for Safari and special-casing it, but not for Konqueror. In which case, write to them (GMail has a link for this) and ask that they check for and treat Konq as Safari until they get around to supporting Konq directly.
Incidentally, what version of Konq are you using? GMail seems to work for me using Konq 3.2.0 (from Mandrake 10.0, so it may be patched for something GMail depends on).
...they'll add a dropdown list of commonly preferred close-the-tab keys and an option to either close the browser with the last tab or leave it open with zero tabs showing.
The whole lot will be accessible from the command line with the right bizarre 90-character invokation.
GNOME will then add similar options, but you'll need to feed their equivalent a 40kB XML file to operate it from the command line.
I can also imagine an MSIE compatibility engine for KDE with settings for what kinds of viruses you want to support. (-:
Portions of this software are based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc.
So... grandparent poster, while what you said was technically correct, your post was wrong in that you said that the GGP poster was wrong. MSIE is based on SpyGlass Mosaic - but that's in turn based on NCSA Mosaic.
It's to late now, but if you want exact WYSIWYG, use PDF instead of HTML (and be prepared for issues such as A4 vs Letter). HTML was not and is not designed to be a layout language. Any layout you can do with it is a bonus. Get over it.
...actually read most recipes, and you'll see the difference. For best effect, do it from a magazine like Women's Weekly which is actively targeted at femmes, then compare with his recipes.
As long as you got Rutan or his ilk to fly the bits up there and assemble them instead of one of the traditional agencies. Anything you get rolling is going to help the other pieces of the puzzle fall into place. And once you build one, other people will start saying "why can't we..." and the gold-rush will be on for young and old.
Once the manufacturers get used to the idea that we'll turn specs into gold code at no charge, and they'll sell more boards as a consequence (which is why it's as important to us to have visible market share as to have real desktop share) they'll kick themselves for not having boarded this particular bandwagon sooner.
They've got to overcome decades of negative "take it or leave it... and die" conditioning from Microsoft to reach that point, though.
...and I look forward with wry amusement to the announcement that they've become a Microsoft subsiduary. They seem to want a monopoly on monopolies as well.
...wander up into the QV.1 building, plug my laptop in next to Digital (which is actually not a Digital/DEC machine any more) and burn you a DVD from there. If I hustled down to the airport with it I could have it in any Australian capital city within about 12 hours. (-:
The 3D drivers work better on MS-Windows out of the box because if they don't then the card manufacturer sells practically no cards. There has been no incentive for the card manufacturers to write drivers. A stupid, selfish, short-sighted attitude among businesses along the lines of "everything we hoard will make us money" means that very few card manufacturers release any specs at all. Now that Linux has maybe 5% real desktop share (as distinct from market share) and a few serious 3D games, and growing, this will change.
ATI has released some code (albeit only for older cards). XGI have released some code (albeit not for 3D). NVidia haven't released anything significant, but some FOSS people did a "clean room" reimplementation of their NForce ethernet driver and others have bullied their 2D hardware into working reasonably well. The first one to completely break ranks and GPL their drivers will pretty much completely own the Linux desktop market.
There is a thin sliver of the computing population who are bright enough to care but dumb enough to have trouble with manually tweaking stuff. Linux is not yet for them, although distros like Mandrake come close. In fact, MS-Windows is not really for them either, since you often have to do driver-tweaking (and/or registry tweaking) there to eke the last ghasp out of your hardware. Linux is for everyone else, those who don't care about getting 10 more FPS out of their graphics driver or those who give enough of a damn to tweak things to get it.
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He must have been hung over or doing drugs y'r honour, it's just a car alarm (this after replacing the screamers with 80dB jobbies).
A-theism is the religion of no God. There is no such thing as "no religion", the closest you'll come is "not interested" but even there you have to make some basic assumptions [pun not intended but I'll leave it there anyway] in order to be able to run your life.
Such as this one:Yes, especially Atheism - but that science is somewhat ruthlessly suppressed by the Atheist/Humanist scientific establishment.
Links by the bucketload are available on demand, but a recent classic to get you started was a report in Nature [431, 114 (09 September 2004); doi:10.1038/431114a]. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute (an Intelligent Design (ID) organisation) submitted an article to the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington [117, 213239; 2004 - vol 117 no 2 pp 213-239] and after 3 well-accredited peers unanimously approved the article it was published.
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) promptly complained, and they and others browbeat Proceedings into promising never to publish an article from an ID or Creationist proponent again. Such science! Such impartiality! A threat to Atheism arises and they face it with... logic? No! With an Index Librorum Prohibitorum! Welcome back to the dark ages and the reign Pope Me.
The crowning glory of this hypocrisy is that NCSE claims that neither ID nor Creationism are scientific. Why not? Because you don't see their articles in peer-reviewed journals! Like, derrrr... I wonder why? Help me out here: should I follow up with a <thwack> or a <ta-dish-boom>? Is this funny or just sad?
Amen to that! (-:
s/millitant/militant/
"I'm on a mission from grammar".
I'll ask Bruce if he has them.
- His car, a Holden HZ sedan, with the door open; and
- His steering column partially disassembled; and
- Traces of blood and hair on assorted knobs and corners under the dash and on the door; and
- No car thief.
You see, 105dB at 3m in free space equals 117dB at about 40cm, which was the approximate distance between the screamers and the thief's ears as he lay in the footwell jiggering the ignition switch on the steering column.This is in a mostly-enclosed hard-walled space, which has to be worth at least another 12dB. And there were two of them, so add another 3dB as icing on the cake, draw a line, 132dB.
The threshold of pain, for reference, is 120dB.
If you're going to bother building a car alarm, get it right. (-:
Somebody pushed a hot-button?
Come and live off any beaten tracks and 50km outside Albany, Western Australia. The local crims are too lazy to visit, but connectivity is a bit of a pig.
If a crim hurts themselves on a farm in a "locked paddock" (means you left it with a sealed fence-line and locks on each gate, even if they're piddly little tokens), they're going to have a tough time drawing out any sympathy.
"So you walked into a harrow? Well, we do leave these things standing around in paddocks you know. It's a farm. The paddock was locked, after all. You walked into it seventeen times, despite prompt assistance from the farmer? Dang, that was careless of you. Next."
McDonalds is regarded by pretty much everyone in the rest of the world as emblematic of American society. That and Coke and cigarettes.
...they would have started doing so a long time ago. The lunatics in charge of that particular asylum have an irrational streak of invincibility syndrome. "Buzz wouldn't do that!" "3!" "He would."
If you have a look at MS' history, they wrote precious little of their own stuff. People keep lists, but even lots of stuff not on the lists 'coz it's no longer current (e.g. MultiPlan) was not written by them, so I'd be totally unsurprised if they'd got someone else to craft those as well.
Well done, it doesn't happen often. (-:
Probably preaching to the choir on this one, but if you only use crappy fonts, you will not ever get good results.
:-).
There are plenty of good, free TTFs kicking around, starting with the Microsoft ones (yes Rheba, before they realised that competitors could use them too, the Evil Empire released some of the good things they make, for free. It's difficult to make insecure fonts, but I'm sure they tried
I've had people walk up to Mandrake machines, use them for a day, and walk away not realising that it wasn't MS-Windows. If I switched those boxes to XPDE instead of KDE and did a little tweaking, I'm sure it would be easy to fool ten times as many people - if that was my aim.
I was using my laptop (running Mandrake Linux) at a private function last week, and a 10yob I know came up, looked oddly at the screen for a few minutes, then asked "Which Windows are you using?" It took about 15 minutes and much repetition to mostly-convince him that it wasn't running MS-Windows at all, but rather KDE on Linux. This is the level of ignorance we face. This kid knows his own machine inside out, as well as a non-programmer possibly could, but had no clue that anything other than MS-Windows ever existed.
Both Mandrake and SuSE do the font thing well, including different aliasing at different sizes.
I haven't seriously tried other distros for a while but seem to remember some of the Debian-based distros (Gentoo, Knoppix) being happy out of the box nowadays, and probably Lin{spire,dows,insertsuffixhere} but that has other issues you don't want to have to deal with.
If you use the download edition of Mandrake, set it up with the Contribs as a URPMI source, and manually pull down a few things (Flash player, Win32 CoDecs and the like) from the Penguin Liberation Front sites. Using PLF wide throttle is a bit risky, but cherry-picking only extras instead of replacing standard packages as well seems to work well. I've also tacked together a few extras of my own here, but that's a skinny DSL line; please don't melt it down.
Most FOSS managers are as much developers, which helps them to keep a lot more closely in touch with what the code is doing than even a highly talented manager would. There is a place in FOSS for highly talented managers sans coding skills, too - it's just that many (almost certainly most) little tinpot FOSS projects would suffer from having one rather than benefit.
A skilled manager knows when to manage lightly, and FOSS is all about lightly managed massive asynchronous parallelism (no, that's not quite an oxymoron). A deft management touch here and there can help to cut gordian knots without "crushing the butterfly".
If it then works, what's happening is that the GMail folks are checking for Safari and special-casing it, but not for Konqueror. In which case, write to them (GMail has a link for this) and ask that they check for and treat Konq as Safari until they get around to supporting Konq directly.
Incidentally, what version of Konq are you using? GMail seems to work for me using Konq 3.2.0 (from Mandrake 10.0, so it may be patched for something GMail depends on).
...why not leave the browser open with zero tabs showing? It's what the keystroke asked for, after all.
...they'll add a dropdown list of commonly preferred close-the-tab keys and an option to either close the browser with the last tab or leave it open with zero tabs showing.
The whole lot will be accessible from the command line with the right bizarre 90-character invokation.
GNOME will then add similar options, but you'll need to feed their equivalent a 40kB XML file to operate it from the command line.
I can also imagine an MSIE compatibility engine for KDE with settings for what kinds of viruses you want to support. (-:
So... grandparent poster, while what you said was technically correct, your post was wrong in that you said that the GGP poster was wrong. MSIE is based on SpyGlass Mosaic - but that's in turn based on NCSA Mosaic.
It's the MS replacement for HTTP and HTML, and... oops, it's been cancelled.
Your point was...?
It's to late now, but if you want exact WYSIWYG, use PDF instead of HTML (and be prepared for issues such as A4 vs Letter). HTML was not and is not designed to be a layout language. Any layout you can do with it is a bonus. Get over it.
...actually read most recipes, and you'll see the difference. For best effect, do it from a magazine like Women's Weekly which is actively targeted at femmes, then compare with his recipes.
As long as you got Rutan or his ilk to fly the bits up there and assemble them instead of one of the traditional agencies. Anything you get rolling is going to help the other pieces of the puzzle fall into place. And once you build one, other people will start saying "why can't we..." and the gold-rush will be on for young and old.
Once the manufacturers get used to the idea that we'll turn specs into gold code at no charge, and they'll sell more boards as a consequence (which is why it's as important to us to have visible market share as to have real desktop share) they'll kick themselves for not having boarded this particular bandwagon sooner.
They've got to overcome decades of negative "take it or leave it... and die" conditioning from Microsoft to reach that point, though.
...and I look forward with wry amusement to the announcement that they've become a Microsoft subsiduary. They seem to want a monopoly on monopolies as well.
...wander up into the QV.1 building, plug my laptop in next to Digital (which is actually not a Digital/DEC machine any more) and burn you a DVD from there. If I hustled down to the airport with it I could have it in any Australian capital city within about 12 hours. (-:
The 3D drivers work better on MS-Windows out of the box because if they don't then the card manufacturer sells practically no cards. There has been no incentive for the card manufacturers to write drivers. A stupid, selfish, short-sighted attitude among businesses along the lines of "everything we hoard will make us money" means that very few card manufacturers release any specs at all. Now that Linux has maybe 5% real desktop share (as distinct from market share) and a few serious 3D games, and growing, this will change.
ATI has released some code (albeit only for older cards). XGI have released some code (albeit not for 3D). NVidia haven't released anything significant, but some FOSS people did a "clean room" reimplementation of their NForce ethernet driver and others have bullied their 2D hardware into working reasonably well. The first one to completely break ranks and GPL their drivers will pretty much completely own the Linux desktop market.
There is a thin sliver of the computing population who are bright enough to care but dumb enough to have trouble with manually tweaking stuff. Linux is not yet for them, although distros like Mandrake come close. In fact, MS-Windows is not really for them either, since you often have to do driver-tweaking (and/or registry tweaking) there to eke the last ghasp out of your hardware. Linux is for everyone else, those who don't care about getting 10 more FPS out of their graphics driver or those who give enough of a damn to tweak things to get it.