well, you generally don't find complex life at temperatures where water and most (all?) hydrocarbons freeze, do you? i'm sorry you're 'fed up' with this kind of rampant speculation, but given that life anywhere will still have to obey the same physics, it's unlikely we'll find complex life at temperatures where little chemical activity takes place, and where pretty much everything is solid.
yeah, spyware is annoying as hell. but (a) it only happens when you don't know what you're doing and (b) it's not the end of the world, it's just annoying. rarely does spyware cause problems beyond nuisance, but i totally understand why you want your mother to use firefox. but presumably you're smart enough to use ie without getting spyware. personally, i'm a lot happier with ie, especially after sp2, since it just works better for me than firefox. what self-respecting geek would use a took that doesn't work as well just to satistfy some idealogical bent? people here are just going to have to deal with the fact that some well informed geeks actually prefer the evil ie over the morally pure firefox.
woah. let's not go crazy, here. i didn't defend ie so much as imply that firefox sucks, as well. but, yeah, if ie 7 comes out and it doesn't have too many security flaws relative to 6 (which shouldn't be hard) then i think i'll happily use it. for all the breathless rhetoric around here, i've never had a problem with 6, except for wishing it had tabs. i can't say the same for firefox, save the tabs.
seriously, people are here act as if somebody gets hit by a buffer overflow exploit every two minutes. do you know anybody who's ever been the victim of a serious ie exploit?
I see how you could make this mistake, but THIS browser will render pages correctly and load them in less than two minutes. But I agree they do appear very similar.
Python is written in C. Therefore, just draw a box around the portage code and python interpreter code and consider that the portage system, and you should be happy.
Why would you set aside coal generated power? That's the whole problem with these kinds of things. These guys are probably patting themselves on the back as "progressives" but I'd be willing to bet that people would be surprised at how inefficient it is to move around on a segway. Going from coal/nat gas to electricity, across the grid, into a battery, and then back to mechanical power is pretty lousy for efficiency. I'd be willing to bet a motorcycle would get better fuel efficiency with respect to emissions. And for two people, I'd put my money on an efficient small car.
I think I see the problem. Exactly when did I say that a low res image is as good as a high res one if it's less than a DVD? I think you're completely missing the point of what I said, and reading way too much into my simple comment. I was making the argument that if people are NOT happy with regular TV, than they are likely to not be happy with DVD as well. Given that they are similar formats, that seems a pretty reasonable statement, no? So then you start talking about interpolation, which is meaningless in this case since nowhere were we talking about displaying a signal of one resolution on a display of another.
DVD is similar resolution as broadcast TV. Now does my comment make sense?
Anyway, it seems you know just enough to be dangerous to yourself. If you think a normal DVD signal played on a TV of any reasonable size and any reasonable viewing distance is anywhere near the resolution limit of the human eye (at the foveal vision) you're crazy.
Furthermore, none of this has anything to do with sampling and interpolation issues. I don't know why you even brough that up.
Pfft... I've been writing programs and working with computers for over 25 years. I *STILL* haven't figured out what they are doing. Come to think of it, I could say the samething about my wife.
If you've been trying to program your wife for 25 years, I think I may see your problem...
If it's so remote you don't have power lines, you probably don't need it. Anyway, so we're going to have lights only if enough cars happened to drive on that road recently? It has the same problem every other hairbrained eco-scheme has: you need backups which render the "alternative" source pointless. Also, it's just burning gasoline from cars to get power. Why not just do it directly with a generator?
No way to spin this. It's incredibly stupid and amazing to me that people in the UK are even thinking about this. Just shows why it's a bad idea to let government do too much. The people in government are usually quite dull.
You need power for the lights, which need electricity, which costs money, so: you take electricity it from cars, which have kinetic energy, which they get from chemical energy (with losses) which their drivers get from money. If only there were a way for the government to get money directly from it's citizens...
a) Sorry I mistyped.
b) It's a fucking joke, asshat. A joke. Nobody really thinks it's true.
c) I didn't dismiss an idea. I dismissed a stupid epithet. I wasn't even discussing the idea (because I didn't actually disagree with the underlying idea). Using the term 'feminazi' has no substantive, productive value. It's a slur, not an argument. Maybe you should figure out what an actual idea looks like before throwing around the phrase.
well, you're far more charitable than i.:-) i'm pretty sure the guy was full of shit. in fact, i think feminazi should be enough to invoke goddard's rule.
look, this is ridiculous. for all the valid criticism of extreme, 70s style feminism, everybody knows it's indefensible to use an epithet like feminazi in a serious argument. i can't believe we're even debating this because (a) it's ridiculous to even consider the possibility that it's a word with serious and well-definid meaning and (b) nonetheless we all know exactly what he meant despite the course language. so lets just table it.
sometimes i wonder what sins could be forgiven on/. were one to close with "but hey, i love FF. linux rules. fuck bill gates!" i'm guessing you could post a neonazi tirade and get modded up +4 insightful by ending with the correct salutory.
Perhaps you should think about who it is that is stuck in 'obsession'.
Woah. I love tabs. I just don't like them blank.
Was it a firefox issue? Did you test the same sites with firefox on other machines?
Of course it's a Firefox issue. That's self evident if you drop your defensive knee-jerking for a minute. If you install software and it doesn't work, it is, by definition, that software that is the problem. Perhaps it's understandable that FF has problems given the sorry nature of Windows networking, but that doesn't change the fact that I, and others, have had problems with Firefox on machines where IE works fine. Part of writing software is working around problems with the OS you're targeting. Everybody knows that but OSS people, who regularly project their faults on the OS in lieu of QC. The bottom line is IE works on every machine I have, but FF has occasional problems on most every machine I use, from linux to windows.
It seems like you have a nasty habit of externalizing your own character flaws into the outside world.
Damn. You're either the world's greatest psychologist or the worst hypocrite. You may be projecting the projecting, chief. I just uninstalled it. You're psychoanalysing it. Which one of us has the issue? I don't care that FF sucked for me. I have nothing invested in OSS or commericial software. I was just telling what happened to me. However, I do appreciate it every time somebody from/. decides to read my fortune from one paragraph I write about a fucking html browser. Listen: not everybody has their identity caught up in the software they choose to use. So when I insult the guys who spend countless hours developing FF without compensation and only manage to produce something of comparable bloatness and bugginess to IE, I mention this fact with a detachment that is probably hard for some people here to understand. Don't mistake the extremity of my position for passion about the cause. I really don't care if FF fails or succeeds. I do, however, find mild amusement in calling BS when I see it. And the idea that FF is god's answer to the browser is wrong both in premise and in fact.
I suggested the FF guys were arrogant not because I'm sure I'm right, but because they didn't even bother to find out either way. No respectable company would act that way. There were more than a few of us who were submitting bugs about pages not loading, and we were all dismissed out of hand since there are, evidently, millions of downloads without problems. Intellectually honest developers would at least be curious about the issue. The FF guys were almost reactionary with their dismissal. I thought I was helping them with their project, but I was treated like a guy taking a shit in the middle of a party. It was pretty enlightening to me about their mindset, and I thought it would be interesting for people here. Or at least the ones with some objectivity left.
Anyway, this only makes me arrogant if I'm wrong. And it only makes me obsessed if I think about this for more than a minute after hitting "submit." And believe me, I don't. I argue about software for the same reason most people argue about sports. It fun to do when there's nothing else to do.
You mean the total number of people on/. who prefer IE is now two. But/. is about the most skewed sampling of computer users you could ever find. It would be like taking a poll on the validity of the fossil record at a Southern Baptist convention.
Also, for the record I really prefer Safari. But my job won't let me use a Mac at work.
Your argument assumes that FF is better than IE. For most users, it may not be. And it may not be for anybody whose not a idealogically bound to OSS, or obsessed with tabs.
Personally, I just uninstalled FF earlier this week after getting fed up with its inability to load pages consistently. For reasons I can't fathom, even with default settings, FF will sometimes hang on pages that don't load fast enough. IE, on the other hand, is very robust in this regard. I miss the tabs, but I really like having pages always come up.
Yes, I filed a bug report. It was dismissed arrogantly with the statement "millions of people have no problem with FF." I wasn't the only person who filed such a report, either.
that it's cruel to experiment on monkeys. You wouldn't put a child in a cage and perform medical experiments, right? Yeah, I know it's not a perfect analogy, but I'm not sure in who's favor.
A new physical media! Great! Maybe they'll finally get affordable HD video on a disc just in time to see us all get broadband optical to the home so that we can download any movie we want on demand.
Here's my prediction: the HD format that will finallly take it will be streaming movies and video over IP. The reason is that with streaming video, commercials can be forced on the consumer, allowing for cheap or free, but high quality content. Nobody will care about DRM for a "free" signal.
Everybody knows the days of getting a movie from the USPS on a piece of plastic is numbered. Even Netflix knows that. Why doesn't Pioneer? DVD will be the last disc format that is successful.
Well, you're right about informing us that the NASDAQ is a stock market. Thanks for that bit of advice. But I think the rest you have a bit wrong. The DOW is not really considered a proxy for the market, just large-cap industry. The S&P 500 is more considered the 'market'. The NASDAQ 100 isn't the NASDAQ index. When people say the NASDAQ hit 2500, they mean the NASDAQ composite, not the 100. The 100 is an index of the largest stocks in the NASDAQ, that's all.
If subconscience preference towards people you can identify is racism, then the word doesn't mean much. I think the same thing applies to many other group identies, like sex and wealth. Since all those preferences come from the same psychological basis, I don't think it's meaningful to call it racism. Racism should be reserved for an overt belief system that puts one above another individual because of race, not a basic human tendency like clustering with those like you. I don't have white friends because I don't like black people, I have white friends because I tend to have more in common with them socially. And if that were to spill over subconsciously into a hiring preference, it's not racism, it would be cronyism, if anything. Still bad, but it's really incidiary and hyperbolic to call it racism.
Anyway, I also disagree with your notion of white affirmative action. Legacy preference may have no place in a meritocracy, but it doesn't help white people. It helps people, white or black, whose parents went to Yale. If you're white and have no legacy, you're not helped. The fact that most people with legacy are white doesn't keep white people above black people. It's just another example of poor people having a harder time breaking into the middle class. If you're poor and white, I don't think you're too comforted about the idea of white affirmative action. At the individual level, poverty is all that really matters anymore. It's hard to get people out of a bad situation, and the fact that group statistics are one way or the other is just a red herring that lets people make quick and easy conclusions that the problem is racism. In reality, the problem is that it's a problem. Who cares why more blacks are poor than whites. In the end, the problem is that they are poor, and it's hard for poor people to get ahead. If you label everything racism, just because of inherited statistics, that doesn't help and just polarizes and misdirects energy from the real problem.
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well, you generally don't find complex life at temperatures where water and most (all?) hydrocarbons freeze, do you? i'm sorry you're 'fed up' with this kind of rampant speculation, but given that life anywhere will still have to obey the same physics, it's unlikely we'll find complex life at temperatures where little chemical activity takes place, and where pretty much everything is solid.
yeah, spyware is annoying as hell. but (a) it only happens when you don't know what you're doing and (b) it's not the end of the world, it's just annoying. rarely does spyware cause problems beyond nuisance, but i totally understand why you want your mother to use firefox. but presumably you're smart enough to use ie without getting spyware. personally, i'm a lot happier with ie, especially after sp2, since it just works better for me than firefox. what self-respecting geek would use a took that doesn't work as well just to satistfy some idealogical bent? people here are just going to have to deal with the fact that some well informed geeks actually prefer the evil ie over the morally pure firefox.
seriously, people are here act as if somebody gets hit by a buffer overflow exploit every two minutes. do you know anybody who's ever been the victim of a serious ie exploit?
I see how you could make this mistake, but THIS browser will render pages correctly and load them in less than two minutes. But I agree they do appear very similar.
Python is written in C. Therefore, just draw a box around the portage code and python interpreter code and consider that the portage system, and you should be happy.
Are you serious, or you being sarcastic. I don't really understand what you're getting at in either case.
Why would you set aside coal generated power? That's the whole problem with these kinds of things. These guys are probably patting themselves on the back as "progressives" but I'd be willing to bet that people would be surprised at how inefficient it is to move around on a segway. Going from coal/nat gas to electricity, across the grid, into a battery, and then back to mechanical power is pretty lousy for efficiency. I'd be willing to bet a motorcycle would get better fuel efficiency with respect to emissions. And for two people, I'd put my money on an efficient small car.
I think I see the problem. Exactly when did I say that a low res image is as good as a high res one if it's less than a DVD? I think you're completely missing the point of what I said, and reading way too much into my simple comment. I was making the argument that if people are NOT happy with regular TV, than they are likely to not be happy with DVD as well. Given that they are similar formats, that seems a pretty reasonable statement, no? So then you start talking about interpolation, which is meaningless in this case since nowhere were we talking about displaying a signal of one resolution on a display of another.
Anyway, it seems you know just enough to be dangerous to yourself. If you think a normal DVD signal played on a TV of any reasonable size and any reasonable viewing distance is anywhere near the resolution limit of the human eye (at the foveal vision) you're crazy.
Furthermore, none of this has anything to do with sampling and interpolation issues. I don't know why you even brough that up.
I think it's more than double the resolution. Is that not significant? If you think DVD is fine, than so is regular format TV.
If you've been trying to program your wife for 25 years, I think I may see your problem...
No way to spin this. It's incredibly stupid and amazing to me that people in the UK are even thinking about this. Just shows why it's a bad idea to let government do too much. The people in government are usually quite dull.
You need power for the lights, which need electricity, which costs money, so: you take electricity it from cars, which have kinetic energy, which they get from chemical energy (with losses) which their drivers get from money. If only there were a way for the government to get money directly from it's citizens...
a) Sorry I mistyped. b) It's a fucking joke, asshat. A joke. Nobody really thinks it's true. c) I didn't dismiss an idea. I dismissed a stupid epithet. I wasn't even discussing the idea (because I didn't actually disagree with the underlying idea). Using the term 'feminazi' has no substantive, productive value. It's a slur, not an argument. Maybe you should figure out what an actual idea looks like before throwing around the phrase.
well, you're far more charitable than i. :-) i'm pretty sure the guy was full of shit. in fact, i think feminazi should be enough to invoke goddard's rule.
look, this is ridiculous. for all the valid criticism of extreme, 70s style feminism, everybody knows it's indefensible to use an epithet like feminazi in a serious argument. i can't believe we're even debating this because (a) it's ridiculous to even consider the possibility that it's a word with serious and well-definid meaning and (b) nonetheless we all know exactly what he meant despite the course language. so lets just table it.
sometimes i wonder what sins could be forgiven on /. were one to close with "but hey, i love FF. linux rules. fuck bill gates!" i'm guessing you could post a neonazi tirade and get modded up +4 insightful by ending with the correct salutory.
Woah. I love tabs. I just don't like them blank.
Was it a firefox issue? Did you test the same sites with firefox on other machines?
Of course it's a Firefox issue. That's self evident if you drop your defensive knee-jerking for a minute. If you install software and it doesn't work, it is, by definition, that software that is the problem. Perhaps it's understandable that FF has problems given the sorry nature of Windows networking, but that doesn't change the fact that I, and others, have had problems with Firefox on machines where IE works fine. Part of writing software is working around problems with the OS you're targeting. Everybody knows that but OSS people, who regularly project their faults on the OS in lieu of QC. The bottom line is IE works on every machine I have, but FF has occasional problems on most every machine I use, from linux to windows.
It seems like you have a nasty habit of externalizing your own character flaws into the outside world.
Damn. You're either the world's greatest psychologist or the worst hypocrite. You may be projecting the projecting, chief. I just uninstalled it. You're psychoanalysing it. Which one of us has the issue? I don't care that FF sucked for me. I have nothing invested in OSS or commericial software. I was just telling what happened to me. However, I do appreciate it every time somebody from /. decides to read my fortune from one paragraph I write about a fucking html browser. Listen: not everybody has their identity caught up in the software they choose to use. So when I insult the guys who spend countless hours developing FF without compensation and only manage to produce something of comparable bloatness and bugginess to IE, I mention this fact with a detachment that is probably hard for some people here to understand. Don't mistake the extremity of my position for passion about the cause. I really don't care if FF fails or succeeds. I do, however, find mild amusement in calling BS when I see it. And the idea that FF is god's answer to the browser is wrong both in premise and in fact.
I suggested the FF guys were arrogant not because I'm sure I'm right, but because they didn't even bother to find out either way. No respectable company would act that way. There were more than a few of us who were submitting bugs about pages not loading, and we were all dismissed out of hand since there are, evidently, millions of downloads without problems. Intellectually honest developers would at least be curious about the issue. The FF guys were almost reactionary with their dismissal. I thought I was helping them with their project, but I was treated like a guy taking a shit in the middle of a party. It was pretty enlightening to me about their mindset, and I thought it would be interesting for people here. Or at least the ones with some objectivity left.
Anyway, this only makes me arrogant if I'm wrong. And it only makes me obsessed if I think about this for more than a minute after hitting "submit." And believe me, I don't. I argue about software for the same reason most people argue about sports. It fun to do when there's nothing else to do.
Also, for the record I really prefer Safari. But my job won't let me use a Mac at work.
Personally, I just uninstalled FF earlier this week after getting fed up with its inability to load pages consistently. For reasons I can't fathom, even with default settings, FF will sometimes hang on pages that don't load fast enough. IE, on the other hand, is very robust in this regard. I miss the tabs, but I really like having pages always come up.
Yes, I filed a bug report. It was dismissed arrogantly with the statement "millions of people have no problem with FF." I wasn't the only person who filed such a report, either.
that it's cruel to experiment on monkeys. You wouldn't put a child in a cage and perform medical experiments, right? Yeah, I know it's not a perfect analogy, but I'm not sure in who's favor.
Here's my prediction: the HD format that will finallly take it will be streaming movies and video over IP. The reason is that with streaming video, commercials can be forced on the consumer, allowing for cheap or free, but high quality content. Nobody will care about DRM for a "free" signal.
Everybody knows the days of getting a movie from the USPS on a piece of plastic is numbered. Even Netflix knows that. Why doesn't Pioneer? DVD will be the last disc format that is successful.
Clearly, expecting an American to learn another human language is asking a bit much.
Well, you're right about informing us that the NASDAQ is a stock market. Thanks for that bit of advice. But I think the rest you have a bit wrong. The DOW is not really considered a proxy for the market, just large-cap industry. The S&P 500 is more considered the 'market'. The NASDAQ 100 isn't the NASDAQ index. When people say the NASDAQ hit 2500, they mean the NASDAQ composite, not the 100. The 100 is an index of the largest stocks in the NASDAQ, that's all.
Anyway, I also disagree with your notion of white affirmative action. Legacy preference may have no place in a meritocracy, but it doesn't help white people. It helps people, white or black, whose parents went to Yale. If you're white and have no legacy, you're not helped. The fact that most people with legacy are white doesn't keep white people above black people. It's just another example of poor people having a harder time breaking into the middle class. If you're poor and white, I don't think you're too comforted about the idea of white affirmative action. At the individual level, poverty is all that really matters anymore. It's hard to get people out of a bad situation, and the fact that group statistics are one way or the other is just a red herring that lets people make quick and easy conclusions that the problem is racism. In reality, the problem is that it's a problem. Who cares why more blacks are poor than whites. In the end, the problem is that they are poor, and it's hard for poor people to get ahead. If you label everything racism, just because of inherited statistics, that doesn't help and just polarizes and misdirects energy from the real problem.