One thing that's always bothered me about modern user interfaces is black text on a white background. I find the opposite much more soothing. Unfortunately, I can't turn it on, for one simple reason, and you're looking right at it.
If I go for that setting, it results in a generally darker (but no less visible) desktop. The problem? You're staring right at it. Open a full-screen slashdot, and suddenly AAARGH GOD DAMN, MY EYES! As blinding white light suddenly gets beamed into my eyeballs.
So I have to begrudgingly use black-on-white all over the desktop, to avoid sudden drastic changes of contrast every time I visit a web page.
Actually, one of the main reasons to switch from kde 3 to kde 4 is that it (or rather, qt4) is heavily optimised to use less ram, have faster loading times, and make more efficient use of shared libraries.
One of the key issues with gnome (which I know is being addressed) is the fact that "ldd" on your average gnome program is a mile long.
KDE's konsole now uses barely more memory than 'xterm'
It does equate to evidence though. The seizure wasn't to censure the information, it was to study it for the process of finding who sent the death threats. That's the opposite of censorship, that's putting the information in the hands of the people who find it useful. Feel free to take a copy first.
Whereas "Limey old fart gently parts his winking sphincter as he jacks off to some legal shit about some cunt who penetrated the NSA's waiting ass" would be a far more offensive one.
I pick YOU UP. I unzip YOUR PANTS. I roughly jam my cock up your ass. As the students are watching I sodomize you for several minutes until I give my "O" face to the class.
Higher taxes only count when your overall cost of living goes up. If you pay higher tax but get stuff for free, you have to weigh up the pros and cons.
Governmental control only becomes a problem when there is no vote. If you don't like Obama, then in 4 years time, vote conservative or independent.
Even Alan Greenspan, a huge backer of "the best government is the one who governs least" philosophy in his book "the age of turbulence" says that corporate freedom has gone too far. Government may be shit at regulating the economy, but the banks are even worse. The government is accountable to some degree. The banks aren't.
But American's aren't really in a place to talk about tax. How many trillions do you owe now? YOU have to pay for that. If you don't, and China kicks off a run on the dollar, you are all going to get VERY poor.. the only thing stopping them from doing that is that it will affect them as well, but they're already digging their way out of that hole. Obama knows this. Clinton knew it and even got the debt clock to go backwards. Bush fucked that one up. Work hard, buy less shit, be happy without trinkets, make stuff that other countries will buy, pay your taxes, and who knows? In 10 years, you don't need to worry about being a victim of financial warfare.
It's not just price that puts people off sun, it's difficulty of use. There's all sorts of silly pointless things like why you have to put a 01 in front of mac addresses when configuring their ldap client to jumpstart stuff (apparently the 01 means "ipv4" or something, but after learning what it was, i figured it was too irrelevant to bother remembering what it was for), or how when you configure ldapclient it defaults to trying to do name lookups over ldap to look up the name of the ldap server (come on guys, that's a schoolboy error of a bug).
We got 2 x4150s in. Sun hardware, sun operating system.. what could go wrong? 2 weeks later, I still haven't got the bloody Sun operating system installed on Sun hardware over jumpstart, and the vendor providing tech support hasn't got it running either. Why? Turns out it's because the baud rate of the iLom runs at 115khz, and the install image defaults to 9600, and the only way to fix that is to MODIFY THE IMAGE (!!!!). Lost days over that one.
Sun should stop wasting time making pointless crap like "webstack" which is basically apache and mysql, and concentrate on what's missing from their OS - get pkg running, stop making commands difficult to use, and fix jumpstart.
People who spell that company's name "Micro$oft" give me flashbacks to 1997. Firstly because they need to grow up, and secondly because they haven't moved on since then.
I see your point, but python, as much as it was originally designed as a teaching language, is now a REAL language, and with functional concepts, a committee that doesn't just say what goes in and out of the core library, but how it should be implemented for utmost usefulness and simplicity (unlike CPAN which is a free-for-all mashup of bad code), and a very clear definition about what is "pythonic", it's a language that is as old as perl, but has stood the test of time better. People are leaving the sed/awk replacement (and a very good one) in droves, and yet, while I see new languages appear, like "boo", "groovy", and the rather pathetic ruby, as a "language slut" who tries out any language out of sheer nerdy interest, I'm yet to find a language which is as perfect as python, and this is a self-perpetuating phenomenon created by perfect-language-zealots who like python and would like to make it progress with the times and keep it that way. The debate on how to implement tertiary operators in python has gone on for FIVE YEARS!!! It still doesn't have one, because nobody can come up with a clean and unambigous (and pythonic) way to implement it while more versed language philosophers simply argue that it's unnecessary (a: what's wrong with an if statement, and b: if you're writing functional code, then...)!!
My other favorite languages are: haskell, D, REBOL, ARM assembler, and Amos basic, the latter out of nostalgia. The other four are what I would call building blocks of the future of computing if anyone would listen to reason:-)
That's nearly 1 printer for every 2 people. Here we have a team of 25 sharing a printer, and there's rarely a queue. How many trees are they intending to cut down?
Do me a favor, go run for 45 minutes, take a 10 minute, and run for another 45 minutes. I'd love to see those NFL athletes have heart attacks over that one...
Plus diving legs-first (rather than shoulders/padding) into a high-speed tackle whilst actually trying to get a ball... cause, you know, sometimes this happens: ouch
I'll take this bit as the point to respond on:
WMV, H.264, and other codecs are also proprietary formats.
We're talking about silverlight here. Silverlight is an open standard. For once, microsoft released an open spec, because they wanted to leverage the open source community against adobe. I don't care where the standards come from - it's a good standard. Don't look a gift-horse in the mouth. It's open, and it's better than flash.
Silverlight is an open-source implementation of an application, written according to the specifications given to them without license by microsoft. How much more open do you want?
It's also a darn sight more powerful than flash, which incidentally isn't open.
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Could be worse.. half of america thinks Obama is the antichrist.
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So all I have to do is reply to this thread, and I get marked up as "interesting"? Wow! I never knew how simple it was!
Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
Beware of geeks.
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One thing that's always bothered me about modern user interfaces is black text on a white background. I find the opposite much more soothing. Unfortunately, I can't turn it on, for one simple reason, and you're looking right at it.
If I go for that setting, it results in a generally darker (but no less visible) desktop. The problem? You're staring right at it. Open a full-screen slashdot, and suddenly AAARGH GOD DAMN, MY EYES! As blinding white light suddenly gets beamed into my eyeballs.
So I have to begrudgingly use black-on-white all over the desktop, to avoid sudden drastic changes of contrast every time I visit a web page.
type "glxinfo".
HTH :-)
Actually, one of the main reasons to switch from kde 3 to kde 4 is that it (or rather, qt4) is heavily optimised to use less ram, have faster loading times, and make more efficient use of shared libraries.
One of the key issues with gnome (which I know is being addressed) is the fact that "ldd" on your average gnome program is a mile long.
KDE's konsole now uses barely more memory than 'xterm'
Information does not equate to action
It does equate to evidence though. The seizure wasn't to censure the information, it was to study it for the process of finding who sent the death threats. That's the opposite of censorship, that's putting the information in the hands of the people who find it useful. Feel free to take a copy first.
Whereas "Limey old fart gently parts his winking sphincter as he jacks off to some legal shit about some cunt who penetrated the NSA's waiting ass" would be a far more offensive one.
I pick YOU UP. I unzip YOUR PANTS. I roughly jam my cock up your ass. As the students are watching I sodomize you for several minutes until I give my "O" face to the class.
Oh stop it.. you're turning me on
Higher taxes only count when your overall cost of living goes up. If you pay higher tax but get stuff for free, you have to weigh up the pros and cons.
Governmental control only becomes a problem when there is no vote. If you don't like Obama, then in 4 years time, vote conservative or independent.
Even Alan Greenspan, a huge backer of "the best government is the one who governs least" philosophy in his book "the age of turbulence" says that corporate freedom has gone too far. Government may be shit at regulating the economy, but the banks are even worse. The government is accountable to some degree. The banks aren't.
But American's aren't really in a place to talk about tax. How many trillions do you owe now? YOU have to pay for that. If you don't, and China kicks off a run on the dollar, you are all going to get VERY poor.. the only thing stopping them from doing that is that it will affect them as well, but they're already digging their way out of that hole. Obama knows this. Clinton knew it and even got the debt clock to go backwards. Bush fucked that one up. Work hard, buy less shit, be happy without trinkets, make stuff that other countries will buy, pay your taxes, and who knows? In 10 years, you don't need to worry about being a victim of financial warfare.
It's not just price that puts people off sun, it's difficulty of use. There's all sorts of silly pointless things like why you have to put a 01 in front of mac addresses when configuring their ldap client to jumpstart stuff (apparently the 01 means "ipv4" or something, but after learning what it was, i figured it was too irrelevant to bother remembering what it was for), or how when you configure ldapclient it defaults to trying to do name lookups over ldap to look up the name of the ldap server (come on guys, that's a schoolboy error of a bug).
We got 2 x4150s in. Sun hardware, sun operating system.. what could go wrong? 2 weeks later, I still haven't got the bloody Sun operating system installed on Sun hardware over jumpstart, and the vendor providing tech support hasn't got it running either. Why? Turns out it's because the baud rate of the iLom runs at 115khz, and the install image defaults to 9600, and the only way to fix that is to MODIFY THE IMAGE (!!!!). Lost days over that one.
Sun should stop wasting time making pointless crap like "webstack" which is basically apache and mysql, and concentrate on what's missing from their OS - get pkg running, stop making commands difficult to use, and fix jumpstart.
People who spell that company's name "Micro$oft" give me flashbacks to 1997. Firstly because they need to grow up, and secondly because they haven't moved on since then.
He has a point. Nowadays, it's "Appl€".
Besides, IBM still makes a lot of money from Notes/Domino.
They do?! D:
Don't complain about an extra second in bed!
I see your point, but python, as much as it was originally designed as a teaching language, is now a REAL language, and with functional concepts, a committee that doesn't just say what goes in and out of the core library, but how it should be implemented for utmost usefulness and simplicity (unlike CPAN which is a free-for-all mashup of bad code), and a very clear definition about what is "pythonic", it's a language that is as old as perl, but has stood the test of time better. People are leaving the sed/awk replacement (and a very good one) in droves, and yet, while I see new languages appear, like "boo", "groovy", and the rather pathetic ruby, as a "language slut" who tries out any language out of sheer nerdy interest, I'm yet to find a language which is as perfect as python, and this is a self-perpetuating phenomenon created by perfect-language-zealots who like python and would like to make it progress with the times and keep it that way. The debate on how to implement tertiary operators in python has gone on for FIVE YEARS!!! It still doesn't have one, because nobody can come up with a clean and unambigous (and pythonic) way to implement it while more versed language philosophers simply argue that it's unnecessary (a: what's wrong with an if statement, and b: if you're writing functional code, then...)!!
My other favorite languages are: haskell, D, REBOL, ARM assembler, and Amos basic, the latter out of nostalgia. The other four are what I would call building blocks of the future of computing if anyone would listen to reason :-)
The Whitespace Thing might prove especially frustrating, as adolescents tend to pay little attention to subtlety
That's exactly why it's there. It's to force them to indent properly. Newbie programmers take a while to "get" indentation. If you get a line like:
while 1:
print hello
File "helloworld.py", line 2
print hello
^
IndentationError: expected an indented block
Instant education! INDENT YOUR CODE BOY!!!
That's nearly 1 printer for every 2 people. Here we have a team of 25 sharing a printer, and there's rarely a queue. How many trees are they intending to cut down?
Yes, you're right. a load of fat fucks who never get injured are far braver than stuff like this:
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_03/BreakPA_468x303.jpg
http://www2.hoahoctro.vn/Upload/20071003/David%20Busst.jpg
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/MickyHatton/cisse.jpg
doh.. should've used preview. here: http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02/eduardoinjuredAI_450x300.jpg
Do me a favor, go run for 45 minutes, take a 10 minute, and run for another 45 minutes. I'd love to see those NFL athletes have heart attacks over that one...
Plus diving legs-first (rather than shoulders/padding) into a high-speed tackle whilst actually trying to get a ball... cause, you know, sometimes this happens: ouch
Correct where appropriate..
Stalin/Gates can talk. Stalin/Gates was a communist who uses the Kremlin/Windows to control the population against their will.
I'll take this bit as the point to respond on: WMV, H.264, and other codecs are also proprietary formats.
We're talking about silverlight here. Silverlight is an open standard. For once, microsoft released an open spec, because they wanted to leverage the open source community against adobe. I don't care where the standards come from - it's a good standard. Don't look a gift-horse in the mouth. It's open, and it's better than flash.
Silverlight is an open-source implementation of an application, written according to the specifications given to them without license by microsoft. How much more open do you want?
It's also a darn sight more powerful than flash, which incidentally isn't open.
quite right. if they're not going to pay me to boot it, then they can damn well boot it themselves and I'll come in when they're done.