Stop patting yourself on the back, you'll sprain your arm. Boycotts are very rarely successful unless massively organized, and there simply wasn't that organization, nor even the likelihood of it. Advertisers read this magazine too, and they're just as appalled at this sort of sewage as any reader, and simply don't want their product associated with such inflammatory material. Imagine the advertisers running ads on the same page or opposite page of MOG's articles -- they must have been livid.
> Shouldn't the editors and slashdotters here who scream censorship at every turn be unhappy about this decision.
No one is telling her she cannot publish. No one is shutting down her site. Sys-con is declining to purchase her column because of gross unprofessionalism. Firing someone for failing to perform the duties and responsibilities of their job is hardly censorship.
It's common among geeks to assume laws and principles are some sort of rigid inflexible code. if publisher.cuts_off($writer) $action="CENSORSHIP";... the real world does not work like that, as some principles are regarded well above others, including subjective ones like "merit", such as the merit of MOG's column.
And doesn't it put the lie to your bait about us "screaming censorship at every turn" when "we" indeed do fail to live up to this charicature?
I saw only assertions in that post. "The copy control culture which values what gets the msot attention". Perhaps I am dense, but I am simply not seeing the arrow of causality. Draw me some cause and effect boxes please?
It should be clear that yes, you're speaking to someone very skeptical of your argument.
I think it's pretty obvious there's JW's and there's JW's. There's the ones who won't interact with "worldly" people unless it's to "witness", there's the intellectual ones interested in knowledge and inquiry, and there's the ones who just go to the kingdom hall on the sabbath and read out of a different bible.
My gf had a friend of many years who became one of the first. Very cultlike indeed, cut off ties from everything "worldly", including all her friends. What distinguishes that variety from other christian cults is that they take a very rigid dogmatic fundamentalist view of essentially the same beliefs instead of having some central charismatic figure often with wacky heterodox beliefs.
I've since run into other people raised JW's for many years, still practice, and they never even heard of that stuff, and they're as "worldly" as I am, and I'm a staunch atheist.
I really want to avoid being my usual sarcastic self here... so would you care to elucidate a little more analysis on how copyrights facilitate demagoguery?
Firefox using a piddly 35 megs for 25 open pages is something I'd like to see. Maybe if they're all the same page, or one screen of simple HTML, sure.
I regularly see Firefox go berzerk with memory usage, to the point where it takes MINUTES for it to swap back in on Windows. Early on in the process, the window will be visible, but it will take 5-15 seconds to respond to each mouse click. Process Explorer meanwhile puts its mem usage at over 200 megs. Perhaps the Joe Sixpacks are used to this poor behavior and will just reboot -- it'll probably happen faster than all the thrashing.
Is it still doing that asinine thing of flushing out all its RAM when minimized? There's still no user-visible option to turn that behavior off.
I used Maxthon back when it was MyIE2, and it's a pretty reasonable browser. Still, with FF, I get Adblock and Sage as extensions, and built-in I get typeahead find (it's amazing how quickly people pick up and love the behavior of "just type it and it will search").
... like How to Cool your PC with Bose-Einstein Condensate just so we finally get to the ultimate extreme end of things and never have to see another stupid cooling story again?
Can we just get a category for "cases and cooling"? Crust almighty...
> I fear that it is too late to burn virii as the abomination it is.
Yeah but it's still not too late to ridicule people for their pseudo-intellectual coinages. Most coinages of "incorrect" forms happen from people NOT trying to sound intelligent and "proper" -- Victorian-era words notwithstanding.
The way it is worded, it doesn't explicitly state that you have to do all these things for it to be science. Someone could [as ID proponents do] take existing "pure" scienctific research, use it to posit that there is order to the universe and use inductive reasoning [logical argument] to "prove" that a supreme being exists.
That's called Rationalism, and it was once all the rage. Descartes was of course the nee plus ultra of rationalists, who "proved" God's existence by nothing more than various logical-seeming arguments.
Rationalism however fell to Empiricism, which added observation to the mix. I think the definition is still mostly reasonable... my trouble is with the phrase "theory building", as it could be construed to place unfalsifiable theories ("God exists, you just can't detect him") on the same plane as legitimate ones.
But frankly, Billy Bob and Sue Anne aren't going to look up the definition of science when looking for a school for little Bobby Sue. This is infighting in the rather short and drab ivory towers of Kansas, that's all.
Kendo teaches that as you swing the blade, you should pull it in towards you at the same time, so that in addition to the direct kinetic impact forcing the edge through the target, it cuts as well.
That's called a draw cut, and it makes great sense with a katana, which is made for that sort of thing. If you chop with a katana, you're going to get it stuck. Now if you have a claymore, you've basically got two weapons in one: a big long massive cleaver, and a spear. Still does a lot more damage, but as long as you put the pointy part of the sword in the soft parts of the enemy, or chop up some tissue and break bones with the blade, it's a little less picky. Still, a sword that big is pretty uncommon... the Roman gladius was good and short, and more of a stabby weapon than anything else.
Lightsabers are of course bullshit, but I imagine how they work has something to do with midichlorians...
> There is no evidence that proves Windows is less secure than MacOS.
Actually the problem is that Windows is too secure, against using it effectively. You can't even *view* the calendar from the taskbar clock without at least power user access. All this might seem to be more secure, but leads to most users of windows boxes (myself included) simply giving their everyday account administrative access.
So yes, windows comes with greater security that's so restrictive that people end up disabling it. This is not without precedent, e.g. in facilities where people prop open security doors or write down excessively numerous and complex passwords.
OSX as well as most KDE and Gnome apps have a well-defined path for escalating permissions for apps that require root access, while windows simply denies access. There is less temptation to do one's everyday work as root on these platforms.
> "...and they deserve to have their business model survive"
Because they pay kernel developers for their time and effort and provide a lot of stuff that otherwise wouldn't be there. Centos is just getting a free ride. I can't disparage them their free ride, it's available and perfectly legal, but they don't add anything of value themselves.
In the big Darwinian scheme of things, nothing deserves to survive, they merely do or don't. Markets are going to seek out efficiencies like water seeks out low ground, even if it's counter to their long term interests. I'd love to see Redhat make it, but not if they can't have something that's theirs alone.
Well, I don't imagine you work in my building, but I didn't exactly make up the whole story either (it's sort of a pastiche of real issues).
I feel I should be fair though: none of this is really Redhat's fault, because they make it as easy as a magazine subscription, the price is really fairly reasonable, and they deserve to have their business model survive. Unfortunately, the mechanics of corporate bureacracy aim to defeat that model, and when other choices such as Centos exist, techies and low level managers in the trenches will seek them out simply to end-run all the purchasing nonsense.
Right now, Centos is probably a blip, but if it got enough momentum, it could really pull the rug out from under Redhat. It's sad for Redhat, and if they go under, Centos becomes an also-ran as well. Other than highly proprietary essential additions to the distro, I don't see much a way out though. Risky thing to base a business on, really.
They prefer to use cracked ICQ accounts because it adds some misdirection to point to an existing entity, an older account may be less likely to be instantly shut off by automatic processes, and well, they're L33T H4X0RZ and cracking is what they like to do (at least the kids working for the extortionists -- the folks running the show are probably pretty rational organized crime types).
The books were hilarious not because of the storyline, or the clever plot, or even the funny jokes--they were hilarious because of DNA's writing style.
Actually, it was a radio show first. But the long and garish paths of prose like "exactly the same way that bricks don't" not only are in the radio show, they're even funnier that way. The visuals in the guide actually seemed to detract from the humor.
Unfortunately, this movie starts off by wiping away all context that would make it funny to non-fans, then systematically removes most of the lines for those remaining. It had great moments -- the thought-slappers on vogosphere for example, Alan Rickman as Marvin -- but otherwise the whole thing just falls horribly flat.
If you're looking for commentary on the madness of bureaucracy, look no further than the scene on Vogsphere, when Arthur was trying to get Trillian released. It was a fairly brilliant sequence, IMO.
Indeed, probably the funniest moment in the movie. If the rest of the movie had original scenes like that instead of being half-assed fanservice parroting lines out of the radio show (then book, then tv series), it could have saved it. But cripes, I already heard, read, and watched at least half this movie already.
Additionally, the whole movie lacked any context for anyone who wasn't already a fan. They don't even give the guide much of an introduction -- all of a sudden, Arthur's just reading the thing, and all of a sudden Ford's a writer for it (mentioned in an aside). I rather look forward to the Director's Cut in the hopes that it isn't so savagely edited...
Right. He's an engineer. Who has to fill out requisition forms in triplicate with business justifications for purchasing redhat provisioning, have it routed to IT support who will send it to your manager's manager who is on vacation for the next three years or something, where you will wonder what happened, take it back, escalate it, get the budget allocated next quarter, get your credits, IT will get your RHN password instead of yourself, forget to send it to you, make you open a ticket to get it, forget the password, tell you you don't have provisioning credits, have you escalate, find out you do have provisiong credits, get the password reset...
And they'll forget to renew it next year.
Maybe he just wants to admin the box without having to go through that.
You are condemning Katamari Damacy as "dark"... and you think the problem is with the games? I wish I could just ignore this paranoid insanity... people like you wouldn't be a problem if they just shut themselves at home away from "worldly" influences. Problem is, they tend to get jobs as politicians.
Yet you seem to have no problem with Guild Wars. What powers the SPELLS in GW, hmm?
Look, we know we should all fall down in theophanic awe and worship at your particular choice of the One True God. Just will you for once shut the fuck up about it already? You're not only not changing anyone's mind, you're just making your religion look like it's populated by narrow-minded superstitious zealots like yourself.
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Stop patting yourself on the back, you'll sprain your arm. Boycotts are very rarely successful unless massively organized, and there simply wasn't that organization, nor even the likelihood of it. Advertisers read this magazine too, and they're just as appalled at this sort of sewage as any reader, and simply don't want their product associated with such inflammatory material. Imagine the advertisers running ads on the same page or opposite page of MOG's articles -- they must have been livid.
> Shouldn't the editors and slashdotters here who scream censorship at every turn be unhappy about this decision.
... the real world does not work like that, as some principles are regarded well above others, including subjective ones like "merit", such as the merit of MOG's column.
No one is telling her she cannot publish. No one is shutting down her site. Sys-con is declining to purchase her column because of gross unprofessionalism. Firing someone for failing to perform the duties and responsibilities of their job is hardly censorship.
It's common among geeks to assume laws and principles are some sort of rigid inflexible code. if publisher.cuts_off($writer) $action="CENSORSHIP";
And doesn't it put the lie to your bait about us "screaming censorship at every turn" when "we" indeed do fail to live up to this charicature?
I saw only assertions in that post. "The copy control culture which values what gets the msot attention". Perhaps I am dense, but I am simply not seeing the arrow of causality. Draw me some cause and effect boxes please?
It should be clear that yes, you're speaking to someone very skeptical of your argument.
I think it's pretty obvious there's JW's and there's JW's. There's the ones who won't interact with "worldly" people unless it's to "witness", there's the intellectual ones interested in knowledge and inquiry, and there's the ones who just go to the kingdom hall on the sabbath and read out of a different bible.
My gf had a friend of many years who became one of the first. Very cultlike indeed, cut off ties from everything "worldly", including all her friends. What distinguishes that variety from other christian cults is that they take a very rigid dogmatic fundamentalist view of essentially the same beliefs instead of having some central charismatic figure often with wacky heterodox beliefs.
I've since run into other people raised JW's for many years, still practice, and they never even heard of that stuff, and they're as "worldly" as I am, and I'm a staunch atheist.
I really want to avoid being my usual sarcastic self here ... so would you care to elucidate a little more analysis on how copyrights facilitate demagoguery?
Firefox using a piddly 35 megs for 25 open pages is something I'd like to see. Maybe if they're all the same page, or one screen of simple HTML, sure.
I regularly see Firefox go berzerk with memory usage, to the point where it takes MINUTES for it to swap back in on Windows. Early on in the process, the window will be visible, but it will take 5-15 seconds to respond to each mouse click. Process Explorer meanwhile puts its mem usage at over 200 megs. Perhaps the Joe Sixpacks are used to this poor behavior and will just reboot -- it'll probably happen faster than all the thrashing.
Is it still doing that asinine thing of flushing out all its RAM when minimized? There's still no user-visible option to turn that behavior off.
I used Maxthon back when it was MyIE2, and it's a pretty reasonable browser. Still, with FF, I get Adblock and Sage as extensions, and built-in I get typeahead find (it's amazing how quickly people pick up and love the behavior of "just type it and it will search").
... like How to Cool your PC with Bose-Einstein Condensate just so we finally get to the ultimate extreme end of things and never have to see another stupid cooling story again?
Can we just get a category for "cases and cooling"? Crust almighty...
> I fear that it is too late to burn virii as the abomination it is.
Yeah but it's still not too late to ridicule people for their pseudo-intellectual coinages. Most coinages of "incorrect" forms happen from people NOT trying to sound intelligent and "proper" -- Victorian-era words notwithstanding.
So says GOD_ALMIGHTY himself. Down here on earth, we created seven of 'em, just to bring you up to date. They are:
Slashcode, in its infinite wisdom, has decided there is one more unnamed one, and can't be educated otherwise.
You know, I normally hate these kinds of replies, but for this one I'll bite, it deserves it:
MOD PARENT UP
The way it is worded, it doesn't explicitly state that you have to do all these things for it to be science. Someone could [as ID proponents do] take existing "pure" scienctific research, use it to posit that there is order to the universe and use inductive reasoning [logical argument] to "prove" that a supreme being exists.
... my trouble is with the phrase "theory building", as it could be construed to place unfalsifiable theories ("God exists, you just can't detect him") on the same plane as legitimate ones.
That's called Rationalism, and it was once all the rage. Descartes was of course the nee plus ultra of rationalists, who "proved" God's existence by nothing more than various logical-seeming arguments.
Rationalism however fell to Empiricism, which added observation to the mix. I think the definition is still mostly reasonable
But frankly, Billy Bob and Sue Anne aren't going to look up the definition of science when looking for a school for little Bobby Sue. This is infighting in the rather short and drab ivory towers of Kansas, that's all.
> I find it interesting that totally generic french words can be held as being relatively strong trademarks in the US.
Windows. Hello. Tiger. Apple. Virgin.
Ain't nothing special about French.
> They used really small bits.
Did they get perpendicular?
Kendo teaches that as you swing the blade, you should pull it in towards you at the same time, so that in addition to the direct kinetic impact forcing the edge through the target, it cuts as well.
... the Roman gladius was good and short, and more of a stabby weapon than anything else.
That's called a draw cut, and it makes great sense with a katana, which is made for that sort of thing. If you chop with a katana, you're going to get it stuck. Now if you have a claymore, you've basically got two weapons in one: a big long massive cleaver, and a spear. Still does a lot more damage, but as long as you put the pointy part of the sword in the soft parts of the enemy, or chop up some tissue and break bones with the blade, it's a little less picky. Still, a sword that big is pretty uncommon
Lightsabers are of course bullshit, but I imagine how they work has something to do with midichlorians...
> There is no evidence that proves Windows is less secure than MacOS.
Actually the problem is that Windows is too secure, against using it effectively. You can't even *view* the calendar from the taskbar clock without at least power user access. All this might seem to be more secure, but leads to most users of windows boxes (myself included) simply giving their everyday account administrative access.
So yes, windows comes with greater security that's so restrictive that people end up disabling it. This is not without precedent, e.g. in facilities where people prop open security doors or write down excessively numerous and complex passwords.
OSX as well as most KDE and Gnome apps have a well-defined path for escalating permissions for apps that require root access, while windows simply denies access. There is less temptation to do one's everyday work as root on these platforms.
> "...and they deserve to have their business model survive"
Because they pay kernel developers for their time and effort and provide a lot of stuff that otherwise wouldn't be there. Centos is just getting a free ride. I can't disparage them their free ride, it's available and perfectly legal, but they don't add anything of value themselves.
In the big Darwinian scheme of things, nothing deserves to survive, they merely do or don't. Markets are going to seek out efficiencies like water seeks out low ground, even if it's counter to their long term interests. I'd love to see Redhat make it, but not if they can't have something that's theirs alone.
Well, I don't imagine you work in my building, but I didn't exactly make up the whole story either (it's sort of a pastiche of real issues).
I feel I should be fair though: none of this is really Redhat's fault, because they make it as easy as a magazine subscription, the price is really fairly reasonable, and they deserve to have their business model survive. Unfortunately, the mechanics of corporate bureacracy aim to defeat that model, and when other choices such as Centos exist, techies and low level managers in the trenches will seek them out simply to end-run all the purchasing nonsense.
Right now, Centos is probably a blip, but if it got enough momentum, it could really pull the rug out from under Redhat. It's sad for Redhat, and if they go under, Centos becomes an also-ran as well. Other than highly proprietary essential additions to the distro, I don't see much a way out though. Risky thing to base a business on, really.
They prefer to use cracked ICQ accounts because it adds some misdirection to point to an existing entity, an older account may be less likely to be instantly shut off by automatic processes, and well, they're L33T H4X0RZ and cracking is what they like to do (at least the kids working for the extortionists -- the folks running the show are probably pretty rational organized crime types).
The new engine in DNF won't use displays, as it will pipe the image directly into your brain. It'll be done WHEN IT'S DONE, dammit.
Since 2001, that would be World Wrestling Entertainment. They lost a court case to the World Wildlife Fund over the "WWF" moniker.
The books were hilarious not because of the storyline, or the clever plot, or even the funny jokes--they were hilarious because of DNA's writing style.
Actually, it was a radio show first. But the long and garish paths of prose like "exactly the same way that bricks don't" not only are in the radio show, they're even funnier that way. The visuals in the guide actually seemed to detract from the humor.
Unfortunately, this movie starts off by wiping away all context that would make it funny to non-fans, then systematically removes most of the lines for those remaining. It had great moments -- the thought-slappers on vogosphere for example, Alan Rickman as Marvin -- but otherwise the whole thing just falls horribly flat.
If you're looking for commentary on the madness of bureaucracy, look no further than the scene on Vogsphere, when Arthur was trying to get Trillian released. It was a fairly brilliant sequence, IMO.
Indeed, probably the funniest moment in the movie. If the rest of the movie had original scenes like that instead of being half-assed fanservice parroting lines out of the radio show (then book, then tv series), it could have saved it. But cripes, I already heard, read, and watched at least half this movie already.
Additionally, the whole movie lacked any context for anyone who wasn't already a fan. They don't even give the guide much of an introduction -- all of a sudden, Arthur's just reading the thing, and all of a sudden Ford's a writer for it (mentioned in an aside). I rather look forward to the Director's Cut in the hopes that it isn't so savagely edited...
Right. He's an engineer. Who has to fill out requisition forms in triplicate with business justifications for purchasing redhat provisioning, have it routed to IT support who will send it to your manager's manager who is on vacation for the next three years or something, where you will wonder what happened, take it back, escalate it, get the budget allocated next quarter, get your credits, IT will get your RHN password instead of yourself, forget to send it to you, make you open a ticket to get it, forget the password, tell you you don't have provisioning credits, have you escalate, find out you do have provisiong credits, get the password reset ...
And they'll forget to renew it next year.
Maybe he just wants to admin the box without having to go through that.
> But video games have become quite dark indeed.
... and you think the problem is with the games? I wish I could just ignore this paranoid insanity ... people like you wouldn't be a problem if they just shut themselves at home away from "worldly" influences. Problem is, they tend to get jobs as politicians.
You are condemning Katamari Damacy as "dark"
Yet you seem to have no problem with Guild Wars. What powers the SPELLS in GW, hmm?
Look, we know we should all fall down in theophanic awe and worship at your particular choice of the One True God. Just will you for once shut the fuck up about it already? You're not only not changing anyone's mind, you're just making your religion look like it's populated by narrow-minded superstitious zealots like yourself.