To elaborate: freedom 0: you can't use GFDL docs encumbered with invariant sections or front/back cover texts for any purpose that would be hindered by having to include several pages of gibberish. Want to record it in audio for a blind friend? You need to recite all the invariants as well. Want a cheat sheet? Sorry. Want to have your program show part of the docs as a help screen? No dice. Want to just take a screenful of doc to include as a comment in your code? No way.
freedom 3: you cannot edit the invariants in any way. A glaring error? Tough luck. Information that's no longer accurate? It needs to stay. Someone edited the docs before and in addition to a bounty of useful text added a comment praising Hitler? The comment needs to stay if it's invariant.
RMS doesn't use Debian because it's not free enough, as in it allows you to add the non-free repository.
RMS pushes a thoroughly non-free license (GFDL) with invariant parts which are uneditable, non-removable. They keep you from doing a lot of things like, say, printing a reference card or... using GFDLed snippets in GPL code!
So nyah, in comparison with Debian (not having any non-free code in Debian proper), what RMS gives you is less free (bad core documentation). He violates the Four Software Freedoms he made himself -- to be exact, freedom 0 and freedom 3.
Have you ever watched someone with no accounting or technical knowledge enter a bunch of figures in a spreadsheet then turn to the desk calculator to sum them up, turn back to the computer and key in the result?
Yes, a 55 years old programmer who has been in the works since he graduated. Awful.
random number rates of up to 1.7 gigabits per second,... Future work may center on devising laser schemes that can achieving rates as high as 10 Gbps."
Oh, I can get 3.4 gigabits right here. I'll take a second such laser.
Or, ten of them. A 17 Gbps device instead of your hoped for 10 Gbps one.
Er, what??? Do you actually believe what Putin says? Since when defending yourself against attacks from (Russian-sponsored) terrorists from YOUR OWN TERRITORY "attacking Russia"?
Either you're trolling, or... I don't really want to know what could be an "or"...
60% of consumers can't tell their head from their ass.
It's damn obvious you obtained this number by rectal extraction. Take a look around -- in our society, 40% of people having the basic cognitive skills? With such a gross overestimation, surely you jest.
Fixing this doesn't even require changing any actual code, since everything on the way supports Unicode well.
Steps required: convert existing comment data to UTF-8 (ok, that's a delicate one considering the size of the table), make Apache use UTF-8 as well, and possibly fix some filters.
Using an ancient charset like 8859-1 in this millenium is nothing but retarded.
Uhm, wrong. If a god exists and does something -- ie, not necessarily omnipotent but with any potency at all -- his existence can be found out. You cannot prove only god's inexistence, or, the presence of a god who set up the universe in motion but doesn't touch it anymore. That type of a god can matter as he can just silently wait outside for souls who leave the universe, but there's absolutely no way to find out he does exist.
Our inability to prove the existence of a meddling god doesn't mean he does not exist, but it's enough for me to not bet my whole life on such an unlikely thing. A hiding god -- hey, come on -- that's so much against scriptures of mainstream religions that there's no reason to even bother.
Note that the stats you provide are from hitslink.com -- that excludes any users of adblock and any other crapblocker worth its salt. Windows users will typically use MSIE and thus will be included unless their net admin installed some DNS or squid-based exclusion list. The rest of us are quite likely to have cesspools like hitslink blocked.
Do you want Vista? I don't..NET makes everything bloated to an insane degree.
Some Gnome guys try to push a piece of crock named "Tomboy notes". If you try it, it will take more memory than the whole rest of Gnome together. And Gnome, well, isn't quite the paragon of being bloat-free.
... in Windows software. There, you're bombarded with EULAs on every step, including even goddamned security updates.
I can't name a single case of a click-through agreement anywhere in for example Debian proper. You can find some in the non-free repository, but hey, it's just what it says on the tin.
WinXP is not capable of IPv6. It can at most run IPv4+IPv6 dual stack with v6 being used for user programs only. That is, unless you can do without DNS and similar details.
Ugh, ReiserFS and "good recovery when the file system is not closed properly"? It doesn't even have good recovery after a proper shutdown.
When other filesystems die, the damage is localised. When Reiser fucks up, all or nearly all of the tree is lost. Usually, you'll lose all files bigger than 4KB, although other damage modes are possible.
Reiser has a codebase of an insane size. A relatively small piece of code can be mostly bug-free, Reiser is simply too large, complex and ill-tested. I admit, I haven't given it a try recently but you can guess why I hate the very idea of approaching it without a ten-foot pole.
I've seen XFS screw a number of random files, ext3 mangled only files that were being written to, and my personal favourite is JFS. Even though I use JFS most of the time, the only screwup I witnessed was on a RAID without a write-intent bitmap.
Obligatory disclaimer: the Chechnyan separatists were bastards.
Er, what??? That's bullshit.
Take the population of an entire nation and forcibly resettle them (something done to a good portion of other nations conquered by Russians, BTW). Then, after a government change allow less than half of the population to return to their homes. Some time later, start shooting at them, have KGB/FSB agents sponsor crime (mass abductions, and so on). And if then some of the folks dare to return fire, declare them terrorists.
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To elaborate:
freedom 0: you can't use GFDL docs encumbered with invariant sections or front/back cover texts for any purpose that would be hindered by having to include several pages of gibberish. Want to record it in audio for a blind friend? You need to recite all the invariants as well. Want a cheat sheet? Sorry. Want to have your program show part of the docs as a help screen? No dice. Want to just take a screenful of doc to include as a comment in your code? No way.
freedom 3: you cannot edit the invariants in any way. A glaring error? Tough luck. Information that's no longer accurate? It needs to stay. Someone edited the docs before and in addition to a bounty of useful text added a comment praising Hitler? The comment needs to stay if it's invariant.
RMS doesn't use Debian because it's not free enough, as in it allows you to add the non-free repository.
RMS pushes a thoroughly non-free license (GFDL) with invariant parts which are uneditable, non-removable. They keep you from doing a lot of things like, say, printing a reference card or... using GFDLed snippets in GPL code!
So nyah, in comparison with Debian (not having any non-free code in Debian proper), what RMS gives you is less free (bad core documentation). He violates the Four Software Freedoms he made himself -- to be exact, freedom 0 and freedom 3.
Have you ever watched someone with no accounting or technical knowledge enter a bunch of figures in a spreadsheet then turn to the desk calculator to sum them up, turn back to the computer and key in the result?
Yes, a 55 years old programmer who has been in the works since he graduated. Awful.
The bulletin is dated 4 July 2008, it's just the Slashdot article that's late. Or even, just on time as a reminder.
random number rates of up to 1.7 gigabits per second, ... Future work may center on devising laser schemes that can achieving rates as high as 10 Gbps."
Oh, I can get 3.4 gigabits right here. I'll take a second such laser.
Or, ten of them. A 17 Gbps device instead of your hoped for 10 Gbps one.
For the real thing, use qemu.
Georgia attacking Russia
Er, what??? Do you actually believe what Putin says? Since when defending yourself against attacks from (Russian-sponsored) terrorists from YOUR OWN TERRITORY "attacking Russia"?
Either you're trolling, or... I don't really want to know what could be an "or"...
On a recipe I got just a month ago: $(DRUG) 1mg 1/0/1
The doc forgot to explain it to me that this means: 1 pill in the morning, 1 in the evening.
Everyone from AOL on - get the hell off.
Replace AOL with "whistleblowers" or any other group... and you'll get the real reason why this case most likely won't be overturned.
60% of consumers can't tell their head from their ass.
It's damn obvious you obtained this number by rectal extraction. Take a look around -- in our society, 40% of people having the basic cognitive skills? With such a gross overestimation, surely you jest.
Fixing this doesn't even require changing any actual code, since everything on the way supports Unicode well.
Steps required: convert existing comment data to UTF-8 (ok, that's a delicate one considering the size of the table), make Apache use UTF-8 as well, and possibly fix some filters.
Using an ancient charset like 8859-1 in this millenium is nothing but retarded.
There's absolutely no way Chrome could be faster than Firefox if Chrome has to render 3/4 of the page being ads and (Cthulhu save us!) flash.
Make a speed test at reasonable settings (ie, Firefox with AdBlock+Flashblock, Safari with PithHelmet and Chrome with... zilch), and then we'll talk.
Uhm, wrong. If a god exists and does something -- ie, not necessarily omnipotent but with any potency at all -- his existence can be found out. You cannot prove only god's inexistence, or, the presence of a god who set up the universe in motion but doesn't touch it anymore. That type of a god can matter as he can just silently wait outside for souls who leave the universe, but there's absolutely no way to find out he does exist.
Our inability to prove the existence of a meddling god doesn't mean he does not exist, but it's enough for me to not bet my whole life on such an unlikely thing. A hiding god -- hey, come on -- that's so much against scriptures of mainstream religions that there's no reason to even bother.
Note that the stats you provide are from hitslink.com -- that excludes any users of adblock and any other crapblocker worth its salt.
Windows users will typically use MSIE and thus will be included unless their net admin installed some DNS or squid-based exclusion list. The rest of us are quite likely to have cesspools like hitslink blocked.
You'd simply play on a local server.
Then instead of working 9-17 work 8-16, duh.
(You Americans have that silly breakfast/lunch/dinner system so add the lunch break time to the above.)
And it's not even patented yet!
Wrong.
Budweiser
Yeah, Budweiser from Budweis (sometimes called Budvar), not watered horse piss from Anheuser-Busch.
Do you want Vista? I don't. .NET makes everything bloated to an insane degree.
Some Gnome guys try to push a piece of crock named "Tomboy notes". If you try it, it will take more memory than the whole rest of Gnome together. And Gnome, well, isn't quite the paragon of being bloat-free.
There's only one window manager in the wild that's incapable of handling non-MDI reasonably well.
The problem is, on that particular OS alternate window managers are nearly unheard of.
... in Windows software. There, you're bombarded with EULAs on every step, including even goddamned security updates.
I can't name a single case of a click-through agreement anywhere in for example Debian proper. You can find some in the non-free repository, but hey, it's just what it says on the tin.
WinXP is not capable of IPv6. It can at most run IPv4+IPv6 dual stack with v6 being used for user programs only. That is, unless you can do without DNS and similar details.
Yes, the Russians call the booster 'Soyuz' and the capsule 'Soyuz'.
Hell, they called their whole country until the last repaint "Soviet Soyuz" (Sovyetskiy Soyuz).
Ugh, ReiserFS and "good recovery when the file system is not closed properly"? It doesn't even have good recovery after a proper shutdown.
When other filesystems die, the damage is localised. When Reiser fucks up, all or nearly all of the tree is lost. Usually, you'll lose all files bigger than 4KB, although other damage modes are possible.
Reiser has a codebase of an insane size. A relatively small piece of code can be mostly bug-free, Reiser is simply too large, complex and ill-tested. I admit, I haven't given it a try recently but you can guess why I hate the very idea of approaching it without a ten-foot pole.
I've seen XFS screw a number of random files, ext3 mangled only files that were being written to, and my personal favourite is JFS. Even though I use JFS most of the time, the only screwup I witnessed was on a RAID without a write-intent bitmap.
Obligatory disclaimer: the Chechnyan separatists were bastards.
Er, what??? That's bullshit.
Take the population of an entire nation and forcibly resettle them (something done to a good portion of other nations conquered by Russians, BTW). Then, after a government change allow less than half of the population to return to their homes. Some time later, start shooting at them, have KGB/FSB agents sponsor crime (mass abductions, and so on). And if then some of the folks dare to return fire, declare them terrorists.