That's a good point. I guess it's really a judgment call whether the readership here could be expected to know what the blurb is talking about. Personally I don't think it's too much to ask, but then, I probably check Slashdot too often for my own good.
I don't see your point. If Apple's contributions are not helpful, nothing's stopping the KDE team from just ignoring Apple entirely. They wouldn't gain from Apple's changes to the code, but at least they'd be no worse off than they were before.
If you don't mind my asking, what's your scanner? I do outside consulting for print shops across the nation and I've yet to come across a flatbed my PowerBook couldn't handle, but I'd be curious to know if they're out there.
You're not worth my time to set straight, so suffice it to say that you are a fucking idiot. Please refrain, in the future, from spewing your senseless shit all over Slashdot where it may negatively impact others in the form of wasted time and wasted brainpower.
Then maybe the Konq team should just adopt WebCore as their rendering engine, if it's not too much trouble to convert between Cocoa and Konq APIs. Even if so, KHTML has lost nothing from the existence of WebCore, save the fact that the latter might steal users away from the former by virtue of its superiority.
Actually, this guy (Perrak) seems to be active, his last contributions were just last month. Someone should let him know that a troll knows his password (assuming he uses the same password on de.* and en.*).
109 account names. However, about 90% of them are from identified and well-known trolls
So Wikipedia exposed ~11 passwords, along with their usernames. Which, given that their owners weren't security conscious enough to pick non-dictionary passwords, they probably use on other sites too. Verbatim. And you don't see any problem with this.
Remind me why anyone should trust you with their passwords?
You're absolutely right. How fundamentally postmodern (just like all Google's most successful algorithms). I can't wait to see the google translator in action.
If the aim (ultimately) is to help you understand things from other languages better, then what's the problem with changing pop culture references? Someone talking in British English about Kylie Minogue's lovely bum, for example, could probably be replaced in American English with a phrase about Shakira's boobs. Which is good, because no one in the States (in my experience) knows who Kylie is, and the translation gets the concepts right. That can only be a good thing, right?
One more thing. In case you've never heard of my alma mater (where, as I mentioned, I was on the managing board of the school paper), you might be familiar with this little award in print journalism it administers. It's called the Pulitzer.
Point? If you're going to babble on about how fantastically fucking intelligent you are by association, you should be aware that I can trot out the same irrelevant shit and look just as petty for doing so.
Dude, you think sentences of that construction are hard to follow? "Christopher, the son of Samuel L. Jackson, has never been more effeminate, and is now poised to win the local drag queen competition." I don't need to take that sentence to an editor to know there's nothing wrong with it.
Why not, you ask? Because back in the day, I myself was a managing editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the undergraduate student newspaper of Columbia University. Prior to that, I had scored a 1600 on the SAT and an 800 on the SAT-II Writing. Big whoop. Honestly, nobody gives a flying fuck about these things, and I only bring them up because I noticed you'd done likewise, you say, in order to feed a "troll" (i.e., me). Fuck you very much.
There's always more understandable ways of writing things, but the labor of reading subject-verb-object sentences composed of pure monosyllables can quickly become tedious, if you're burdened with the brain mass at least of an ant.
On a possibly related note, what the hell is this captcha? Not mwmqvso, not mwmavso, and not mwmquso. That's as far as I got before Slashdot decided I wasn't human. You got any guesses?
No, he's right, even if he's "Lir". How do you know all those user names are his? There's so goddamn many! Not to mention, most of them don't look related. And what about "Nico" and the rest of them? I think they must have used dictionary words for their passwords, or something common that a lot of other people unfortunately were also using.
Original post should be modded up. Or submitted as a story. If there's even one person who's on that page by coincidence (and it looks like there's probably at least a few) then that's seriously, seriously fucked, maybe even lawsuit fucked.
What the fuck, man? I'm sorry, but if you're a native speaker of the language and you still can't understand that sentence, you must have done pretty piss-poorly in grammar school English. The writer certainly has a responsibility to write clearly, but not by dumbing it down in order to cater to mental midgets like you.
Um, do you speak English? At all? There's nothing wrong with that sentence. Maybe you've just grown so used the usual addled Slashdot syntax that you can't recognize anymore a well-constructed sentence when you see one.
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Older, but not old enough. If it'd had a SCSI interface, I might have been able to help. Sorry. :)
That's a good point. I guess it's really a judgment call whether the readership here could be expected to know what the blurb is talking about. Personally I don't think it's too much to ask, but then, I probably check Slashdot too often for my own good.
Cool, I didn't know about that. Thanks for the link.
Apple's doing well more than the minimum, but apparently still not enough to satisfy the KDE devs.
I might also add that Safari's implementation of RTE is far superior to Mozilla/Gecko/Firefox.
No, Safari has rich text editing.
I don't see your point. If Apple's contributions are not helpful, nothing's stopping the KDE team from just ignoring Apple entirely. They wouldn't gain from Apple's changes to the code, but at least they'd be no worse off than they were before.
If you don't mind my asking, what's your scanner? I do outside consulting for print shops across the nation and I've yet to come across a flatbed my PowerBook couldn't handle, but I'd be curious to know if they're out there.
Maybe you'd be more comfortable reading CNN or Yahoo! News.
You're not worth my time to set straight, so suffice it to say that you are a fucking idiot. Please refrain, in the future, from spewing your senseless shit all over Slashdot where it may negatively impact others in the form of wasted time and wasted brainpower.
Then maybe the Konq team should just adopt WebCore as their rendering engine, if it's not too much trouble to convert between Cocoa and Konq APIs. Even if so, KHTML has lost nothing from the existence of WebCore, save the fact that the latter might steal users away from the former by virtue of its superiority.
Open source projects tend not to care about users, unless those users are also developers of the project.
Actually, this guy (Perrak) seems to be active, his last contributions were just last month. Someone should let him know that a troll knows his password (assuming he uses the same password on de.* and en.*).
109 account names. However, about 90% of them are from
identified and well-known trolls
So Wikipedia exposed ~11 passwords, along with their usernames.
Which, given that their owners weren't security conscious enough
to pick non-dictionary passwords, they probably use on other sites
too. Verbatim. And you don't see any problem with this.
Remind me why anyone should trust you with their passwords?
Good gracious. You admitted you fucked up, but then proceeded to do nothing about it -- not even notify the people who might have been affected?
If you worked for me as a developer, much less a database admin, I'd fire you on the spot. You better hope your boss doesn't find out about this.
Look, if everyone you know doesn't own a Mac, your problem isn't in the software -- it's your choice of friends. I suggest moving to the Castro.
(I say this as a Chelsea boy with half a dozen Macs in and out of the closet.)
You're absolutely right. How fundamentally postmodern (just like all Google's most successful algorithms). I can't wait to see the google translator in action.
If the aim (ultimately) is to help you understand things from other languages better, then what's the problem with changing pop culture references? Someone talking in British English about Kylie Minogue's lovely bum, for example, could probably be replaced in American English with a phrase about Shakira's boobs. Which is good, because no one in the States (in my experience) knows who Kylie is, and the translation gets the concepts right. That can only be a good thing, right?
One more thing. In case you've never heard of my alma mater (where, as I mentioned, I was on the managing board of the school paper), you might be familiar with this little award in print journalism it administers. It's called the Pulitzer.
Point? If you're going to babble on about how fantastically fucking intelligent you are by association, you should be aware that I can trot out the same irrelevant shit and look just as petty for doing so.
Again, fuck you.
Dude, you think sentences of that construction are hard to follow? "Christopher, the son of Samuel L. Jackson, has never been more effeminate, and is now poised to win the local drag queen competition." I don't need to take that sentence to an editor to know there's nothing wrong with it.
Why not, you ask? Because back in the day, I myself was a managing editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator , the undergraduate student newspaper of Columbia University. Prior to that, I had scored a 1600 on the SAT and an 800 on the SAT-II Writing. Big whoop. Honestly, nobody gives a flying fuck about these things, and I only bring them up because I noticed you'd done likewise, you say, in order to feed a "troll" (i.e., me). Fuck you very much.
There's always more understandable ways of writing things, but the labor of reading subject-verb-object sentences composed of pure monosyllables can quickly become tedious, if you're burdened with the brain mass at least of an ant.
On a possibly related note, what the hell is this captcha? Not mwmqvso, not mwmavso, and not mwmquso. That's as far as I got before Slashdot decided I wasn't human. You got any guesses?
Redundant but aids understanding.
Redundant, but aids understanding.
No, he's right, even if he's "Lir". How do you know all those user names are his? There's so goddamn many! Not to mention, most of them don't look related. And what about "Nico" and the rest of them? I think they must have used dictionary words for their passwords, or something common that a lot of other people unfortunately were also using.
Original post should be modded up. Or submitted as a story. If there's even one person who's on that page by coincidence (and it looks like there's probably at least a few) then that's seriously, seriously fucked, maybe even lawsuit fucked.
What the fuck, man? I'm sorry, but if you're a native speaker of the language and you still can't understand that sentence, you must have done pretty piss-poorly in grammar school English. The writer certainly has a responsibility to write clearly, but not by dumbing it down in order to cater to mental midgets like you.
Um, do you speak English? At all? There's nothing wrong with that sentence. Maybe you've just grown so used the usual addled Slashdot syntax that you can't recognize anymore a well-constructed sentence when you see one.