I meant liberal as in the common American perception. It is liberal as in classic liberal, like libertarianism. I'll admit that it was a knee-jerk reaction and that I only read the summary (silly me). Also, I was referring to raggin on America as in America sucks trolls, or GWB r t3h devil. I totally support constructive criticism, and participate myself. And by corporate shills I meant that people often refer to Americans like a bunch of sell outs. Probably my biggest pet peeve has been addressed her, and that is that it is wrong (and infinitely irritating) to refer to 'Americans' as a single group. Simply by saying 'Americans are...' or 'America is...' you are incorrect, unless it is stated as a majority thing.
I meant liberal by the common American definition. Europeans use liberal to mean classic liberal, which I am and open source is. One French leader even refered to Thatcher and Reagan as extreme liberals
It's interesting to see that while people rag on America all the time for being a bunch of corporate shills, we are very friendly to OSS, the Gov't even makes its own publicly available (think World Wind, SELinux), and OSS adoption is high. Meanwhile, our french friends are hostile to it. And they say OSS is a liberal thing.
Proprietary != evil. It's probably safe to say that for 99% of all users, they have just as much freedom on a Mac as on a Linux box. Saying that all software must be open source is foolish and hopelessly ideological. Drop the zealotry and realize that you lose few if any freedoms by using proprietary software, and that often proprietary software is better than its OSS alternatives. This xenophobia towards different licencing schemes::Gasp OMG:: drives more people away that it attracts.
Err... Chatzilla is a plugin IRC client for Firefox, and totally unrelated save the Mozilla part. It's really not a big product or anything, and I would guess that the development time put into it eould be negligible towards any other project.
I said you couldnt do it directly. If we all stopped driving cars, aside from the economic borkage that would occur it would do immense wonders for Earth. But you simply can't make a machine big enough to create/change/move an ocean current.
I know it is a long and gradual process, the point I was making is that melting ice caps can cause problems on a larger scale than he desctibed. But what the hell, who am I to complain, I've got prime beachfront property if that happens.
Imagine a sea that covers much of northwestern Canada and America's breadbasket, not to mention a total lack of Florida or any islands in the Gulf of Mexico or Carribean Sea. In fact, get rid of most of the eastern seaboard as well. Then imagine that someone called that losing a little coastline. I'm no environmentalist and I'm definitely not trying to spread FUD, but if there is massive Ice cap meltage, lots of low lying areas stand at risk.
You can't make anything that would work on that massive a scale without spending as much money as would be lost if South America suddenly vanished. Nature is much bigger and more powerful than us and is totally beyond our control through methods like that.
C'mon, thats just euphemistic for 'Gaim is fscking hideous' And yet I use it as well, all the unwashed heathens are on AIM and some of the enlightened because their friends aren't cool enough to use GTalk or get a GMail, even when offered (i.e. Hotmail is teh kewlzorz man!).
... but wireless power does exist. It is most commonly seen during what is commonly known as a thunderstorm. Go stick a fork in the nearest outlet if you doubt me, because sparks will fly.
Actually, more seriously, there is already limited use of wireless electricity in hospitals to recharge pacemakers and the like to avoid having to cut open the patient or put a plug on his chest (too matrix-like I guess)
10 is cataclysmic. SUSE hit 10, then all hell broke loose and it went more open/community based. Not that that's bad, but 10 is a dangerous number to use outright.
You brought up a good point. The USA is actually gaining forest ground every year and firewood is 100% renewable. Use real wood people, you're not hurting the environment by doing so, as forests are growing and you are using the resources you have.
I'm blaming the dolphins and mice. They actually know what they are doing.
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That's for sure. Ruby might not yet be of perl's power, but it definitely isnt a toy. It is at least as capable as Python and Perl, just not quite as popular.
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I meant liberal as in the common American perception. It is liberal as in classic liberal, like libertarianism. I'll admit that it was a knee-jerk reaction and that I only read the summary (silly me). ...' or 'America is...' you are incorrect, unless it is stated as a majority thing.
Also, I was referring to raggin on America as in America sucks trolls, or GWB r t3h devil. I totally support constructive criticism, and participate myself. And by corporate shills I meant that people often refer to Americans like a bunch of sell outs. Probably my biggest pet peeve has been addressed her, and that is that it is wrong (and infinitely irritating) to refer to 'Americans' as a single group. Simply by saying 'Americans are
I meant liberal by the common American definition. Europeans use liberal to mean classic liberal, which I am and open source is. One French leader even refered to Thatcher and Reagan as extreme liberals
some more words: not even french, and neither was all of his army
It's interesting to see that while people rag on America all the time for being a bunch of corporate shills, we are very friendly to OSS, the Gov't even makes its own publicly available (think World Wind, SELinux), and OSS adoption is high. Meanwhile, our french friends are hostile to it. And they say OSS is a liberal thing.
Proprietary != evil. It's probably safe to say that for 99% of all users, they have just as much freedom on a Mac as on a Linux box. Saying that all software must be open source is foolish and hopelessly ideological. Drop the zealotry and realize that you lose few if any freedoms by using proprietary software, and that often proprietary software is better than its OSS alternatives. This xenophobia towards different licencing schemes ::Gasp OMG:: drives more people away that it attracts.
Err... Chatzilla is a plugin IRC client for Firefox, and totally unrelated save the Mozilla part. It's really not a big product or anything, and I would guess that the development time put into it eould be negligible towards any other project.
I said you couldnt do it directly. If we all stopped driving cars, aside from the economic borkage that would occur it would do immense wonders for Earth. But you simply can't make a machine big enough to create/change/move an ocean current.
I know it is a long and gradual process, the point I was making is that melting ice caps can cause problems on a larger scale than he desctibed. But what the hell, who am I to complain, I've got prime beachfront property if that happens.
Imagine a sea that covers much of northwestern Canada and America's breadbasket, not to mention a total lack of Florida or any islands in the Gulf of Mexico or Carribean Sea. In fact, get rid of most of the eastern seaboard as well. Then imagine that someone called that losing a little coastline. I'm no environmentalist and I'm definitely not trying to spread FUD, but if there is massive Ice cap meltage, lots of low lying areas stand at risk.
You can't make anything that would work on that massive a scale without spending as much money as would be lost if South America suddenly vanished. Nature is much bigger and more powerful than us and is totally beyond our control through methods like that.
C'mon, thats just euphemistic for 'Gaim is fscking hideous'
And yet I use it as well, all the unwashed heathens are on AIM and some of the enlightened because their friends aren't cool enough to use GTalk or get a GMail, even when offered (i.e. Hotmail is teh kewlzorz man!).
Plus all the Magratheans would probably be angry with you for screwing with their art.
... but wireless power does exist. It is most commonly seen during what is commonly known as a thunderstorm. Go stick a fork in the nearest outlet if you doubt me, because sparks will fly.
Actually, more seriously, there is already limited use of wireless electricity in hospitals to recharge pacemakers and the like to avoid having to cut open the patient or put a plug on his chest (too matrix-like I guess)
10 is cataclysmic. SUSE hit 10, then all hell broke loose and it went more open/community based. Not that that's bad, but 10 is a dangerous number to use outright.
You brought up a good point. The USA is actually gaining forest ground every year and firewood is 100% renewable. Use real wood people, you're not hurting the environment by doing so, as forests are growing and you are using the resources you have.
I'm blaming the dolphins and mice. They actually know what they are doing.
That's for sure. Ruby might not yet be of perl's power, but it definitely isnt a toy. It is at least as capable as Python and Perl, just not quite as popular.
Long live sneakernet!!!
I don't know much about DBs, but an OODBMS sounds cool. ::hint hint::
Also, turkey barbeque is amazing!
It's this simple. Einstein called God a crappy dungeon master then failed to roll initiative.
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Very true, but sometimes he does have a point.
That's hilarious. Isn't a moderator based system supposed to alleviate these problems? Do the mods even read /.??