Looks like you've been censored too, in a roundabout kind of way. I don't know why that would happen, but the chinese page shows no evidence of the massacre; just a bunch of pictures of the temple, complete with children smiling for the camera.
uTorrent is inferior to rTorrent, IMO. rtorrent generally beats uTorrent on performance (try using some of the performance improvements documented on the performance tuning page. It's also open, free, and runs on unix. I haven't personally seen a client that I like more.
"A discerning person recognizes that general observations do not necessarily apply to individuals."
Wrong. A discerning person realises that making idiotic generalisations about a community with no political or social common ground is foolish. Slashdot isn't "groupthink" or any of the "i'm-a-trendy-non-conformist" words you want to attribute to it.
You're looking at the large community, pointing out that they don't all agree, and then acting like it's unprecedented. Fool.
"Except that China is not communist. It is MORE capitalist than the USA."
What are you talking about? If you're trying to say what a lot of communists I know say and say that China doesn't entirely follow Marx's theories, then fair point. But MORE capitalist than the USA? You're full of shit.
Because it's wrong damnit. Read up on web standards. That is what you should follow when you design a web page. If you're smart you can also use html tidy to fix your broken code in most cases.
It's closed, and although the team haven't especially ruled out the possibility of making it Free Software, it is currently pretty much win32 only (although there is a GNU/Linux binary: it doesn't work very well).
To my knowledge, the only Free PSX emulator is PCSX, but development has been dead a few years, and I have a feeling compatibility is poor.
Exactly. People are so indoctrinated with the legislative process that they would ban something as soon a they have no obvious use for it. Companies and destroying freedom, and what's more...people like it.
I know two people with Archos players. I don't know _anyone_ with a different player. The archos is currently one of the bigger portable video players in the UK.
I made a mistake by generalizing about Gentoo users, but now I feel OK because you also made a generalization:)
How did I? There is a level of general knowledge about Unix needed to run to gentoo, and there is a level of knowledge gained from using it. It's the same as many other things, skills learn from one activity translate to others.
Flexibility I can buy, but I have serious doubts about the sanity of people who think that compiling the code themselves adds anything whatsoever to their user experience.
Compiling the code yourself does mean flexibility. You can control exactly what libraries you link to, what kind of things you put in, ectera. It can mean an improvement in the user experience; you're not stuck to any maintainers decisions about what to link to, how to do it etc. You get more flexibility when you do something by hand. Whether that is offset by unpredictable problems depends on what you're using it for.
I don't know any employer who would want l33t script kiddies running their critical production boxen, I'm afraid.
Using the term "l33t script kiddies" to you basically trying to infer that gentoo users are malicious crackers. In your foolishness in trying to work in a particular phrase, you've forgotten that it has nothing to do with the topic at hand! Whoops! Try to include some kind of relevant closing statement in your inevitable reply to this! Even better, why not use the following phrase in your reply; it represents your arguement well:
"Gentoo users are idiots! If my company thought I was competant enough to recruit staff (which they don't, for some reason probably related to my incompetance/inability to objectively discern between use for fields of endevour/use of sterotypes when relating to sections of the canditate pool (even though I've never actually interviewed anyone!) I would surely discriminate against anyone who took any interest in using their computers in specific ways, or used a particular distribution I deemed to be stupid.
If I were an employer looking for a sysadmin I'd root out the Gentoo fans, the overclockers, the tuners and the tweakers right off.
You know, a gentooer/oc'er/tuner/tweaker isn't going to be stupid and run gentoo for something important. They kinds of people often have the kind of in depth technical knowledge of hardware and software that really do help. There's nothing wrong with using gentoo on workstation/desktop machines; it's very good for this with nice flexibility. I know a couple of overclockers who are very into cpu cycles and their other stuff, but they still run their webserver on p3's with Debian and FreeBSD.
This kind of attitude could be a reason you're not an employer.
No really. It's not a ban; the groups is just trying to inform people about something they don't like. Granted, trying to do this through a governmental association is misleading, and the whole issue really ought to be dealt with through an independent organisation, but the actual campaign is a very fair exhibition of human rights.
It's not plaintext; it's XML. Thats by definition. I could write a config file in perl or python by the same token. Let's take a look inside a random gnome config file, shall we?
Enough context to explain what each value does? No.
Useless use of strings Yes.
Unexplainable markup that renders the file hard to read? Yes.
Unexplainably random organisation and nomenclature of these scripts, making it impossible to find what you need without examining a reference document? Yes.
Enough context to explain what each value does? Pretty much. The names are fairly explanitory
Useless use of strings Nope, most are numeric.
Unexplainable markup that renders the file hard to read? No markup.
Unexplainably random organisation and nomenclature of these scripts, making it impossible to find what you need without examining a reference document? ~/aMule/amule.conf - sensible and logical
Are you trying to say the the gconf method is in any way better than the.program method? The way the gnome project set up the conf files, it's very very hard to tell what exactly is going on. It is roughly human readable, by the xml makes it harder than it needs to be. A single program will have it's config files in many different directories (app/preference etc). They really should provide an option to do it "the non-gnome way". Configuring a gnome program without a gui currently involves guessing where the relevant config is, and then hamming your way at editing it.
And gnome is wondering why it's getting so much flak; people really don't like the "design for the idiot using the X server, and fuck everyone else". I hate the way the gnome project has turned out. No other project has the same complete disregard for the unix philosophy: it should not be this way.
It's hardly the programs fault if you expect it to work exactly the same out of the box. It is a technically inferior program in a few ways, but I put most of this lost functionality down you you not knowing what you're supposed to do yet. The GIMP can handle most peoples use of graphics programs, and that probably includes you. Try getting used to doing it a different way.
It's actually more accurate to say that many people, Americans, in particular, fail to see the difference between social and economic policies.
Americans are fairly free; in the economic sense. Short of a few laws and such, trade is mostly untouched by government. Where they lose out is in social freedoms; gay marriage isn't possible in most (any?) states, and the opposition to open sexuality was such that half a boob on primetime tv warranted such a massive scandal. They also routinely abuse the civil rights of citizens; the PATRIOT Act for example.
France is a good example of a western country that's fairly opposite. Social freedoms are high on the list, with open sexuality on television, and except that school-headscarf law social freedoms are good (it does seem like this is starting to change, however). Look at economic freedoms though, and you'll see that there aren't many; the government has heavy taxes and a strong benefit system.
The real killer in the US is that they call the Democrats "liberals"! The democrat party are actually very conservative by international standards. Republicans seemed similar when Bush was elected the first time, but since have slipped heavily into the Authoritarian corner.
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Looks like you've been censored too, in a roundabout kind of way. I don't know why that would happen, but the chinese page shows no evidence of the massacre; just a bunch of pictures of the temple, complete with children smiling for the camera.
As far as Google goes, they're too young to have done anything "evil" yet.
Wrong. Case in point
uTorrent is inferior to rTorrent, IMO. rtorrent generally beats uTorrent on performance (try using some of the performance improvements documented on the performance tuning page. It's also open, free, and runs on unix. I haven't personally seen a client that I like more.
You, sir, are a fool.
"A discerning person recognizes that general observations do not necessarily apply to individuals."
Wrong. A discerning person realises that making idiotic generalisations about a community with no political or social common ground is foolish. Slashdot isn't "groupthink" or any of the "i'm-a-trendy-non-conformist" words you want to attribute to it.
You're looking at the large community, pointing out that they don't all agree, and then acting like it's unprecedented. Fool.
"Except that China is not communist. It is MORE capitalist than the USA."
What are you talking about? If you're trying to say what a lot of communists I know say and say that China doesn't entirely follow Marx's theories, then fair point. But MORE capitalist than the USA? You're full of shit.
Yeah, it's almost like all members of the slashdot community have free will and disagree on some issues. Grow up.
Because it's wrong damnit. Read up on web standards. That is what you should follow when you design a web page. If you're smart you can also use html tidy to fix your broken code in most cases.
Do you mean pcsx? or epsxe?
Let's be fair; Goebbels was in the Nazi party. He was the official that organised the censorship of german news.
He's a bad example. (either way; you should invoke Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies as soon as someone uses a Nazi analogy)
No! ePSXe is NOT open source!
It's closed, and although the team haven't especially ruled out the possibility of making it Free Software, it is currently pretty much win32 only (although there is a GNU/Linux binary: it doesn't work very well).
To my knowledge, the only Free PSX emulator is PCSX, but development has been dead a few years, and I have a feeling compatibility is poor.
Exactly. People are so indoctrinated with the legislative process that they would ban something as soon a they have no obvious use for it. Companies and destroying freedom, and what's more...people like it.
This is because the Lords have been traditional conservatives,
No, this is because the Lords are unelected.
The real crux of his problem is that he's used 1900 words to discuss three operating systems. It's more of a "cursory glance" than "brutal honesty".
When are people going to learn that one persons blog entry isn't the definitive answer to any question?
I know two people with Archos players. I don't know _anyone_ with a different player. The archos is currently one of the bigger portable video players in the UK.
It's not a huge security hole. It's not a security hole at all. It's just risky for newbies, thats all. No need to ring the oval office.
IIRC, sudo can give a shell root priveliges with something like sudo -k (i don't use the program currently; that might be wrong).
I made a mistake by generalizing about Gentoo users, but now I feel OK because you also made a generalization :)
How did I? There is a level of general knowledge about Unix needed to run to gentoo, and there is a level of knowledge gained from using it. It's the same as many other things, skills learn from one activity translate to others.
Flexibility I can buy, but I have serious doubts about the sanity of people who think that compiling the code themselves adds anything whatsoever to their user experience.
Compiling the code yourself does mean flexibility. You can control exactly what libraries you link to, what kind of things you put in, ectera. It can mean an improvement in the user experience; you're not stuck to any maintainers decisions about what to link to, how to do it etc. You get more flexibility when you do something by hand. Whether that is offset by unpredictable problems depends on what you're using it for.
I don't know any employer who would want l33t script kiddies running their critical production boxen, I'm afraid.
Using the term "l33t script kiddies" to you basically trying to infer that gentoo users are malicious crackers. In your foolishness in trying to work in a particular phrase, you've forgotten that it has nothing to do with the topic at hand! Whoops! Try to include some kind of relevant closing statement in your inevitable reply to this! Even better, why not use the following phrase in your reply; it represents your arguement well:
"Gentoo users are idiots! If my company thought I was competant enough to recruit staff (which they don't, for some reason probably related to my incompetance/inability to objectively discern between use for fields of endevour/use of sterotypes when relating to sections of the canditate pool (even though I've never actually interviewed anyone!) I would surely discriminate against anyone who took any interest in using their computers in specific ways, or used a particular distribution I deemed to be stupid.
He didn't mean "democratic" is in the political party! He meant in terms of the voting practice... It seems like you read that a little too fast.
If I were an employer looking for a sysadmin I'd root out the Gentoo fans, the overclockers, the tuners and the tweakers right off.
You know, a gentooer/oc'er/tuner/tweaker isn't going to be stupid and run gentoo for something important. They kinds of people often have the kind of in depth technical knowledge of hardware and software that really do help. There's nothing wrong with using gentoo on workstation/desktop machines; it's very good for this with nice flexibility. I know a couple of overclockers who are very into cpu cycles and their other stuff, but they still run their webserver on p3's with Debian and FreeBSD.
This kind of attitude could be a reason you're not an employer.
If I had modpoints, you'd be on the recieving end of some right now. An excellent point.
No really. It's not a ban; the groups is just trying to inform people about something they don't like. Granted, trying to do this through a governmental association is misleading, and the whole issue really ought to be dealt with through an independent organisation, but the actual campaign is a very fair exhibition of human rights.
Let's take a look inside a random gnome config file, shall we?
Is there;
And now, a
Is there;
Are you trying to say the the gconf method is in any way better than the
And gnome is wondering why it's getting so much flak; people really don't like the "design for the idiot using the X server, and fuck everyone else". I hate the way the gnome project has turned out. No other project has the same complete disregard for the unix philosophy: it should not be this way.
From whose perspective? I've had Linux kernels work fine with them (it was a 2.6).
It's hardly the programs fault if you expect it to work exactly the same out of the box. It is a technically inferior program in a few ways, but I put most of this lost functionality down you you not knowing what you're supposed to do yet. The GIMP can handle most peoples use of graphics programs, and that probably includes you. Try getting used to doing it a different way.
It's actually more accurate to say that many people, Americans, in particular, fail to see the difference between social and economic policies.
Americans are fairly free; in the economic sense. Short of a few laws and such, trade is mostly untouched by government. Where they lose out is in social freedoms; gay marriage isn't possible in most (any?) states, and the opposition to open sexuality was such that half a boob on primetime tv warranted such a massive scandal. They also routinely abuse the civil rights of citizens; the PATRIOT Act for example.
France is a good example of a western country that's fairly opposite. Social freedoms are high on the list, with open sexuality on television, and except that school-headscarf law social freedoms are good (it does seem like this is starting to change, however). Look at economic freedoms though, and you'll see that there aren't many; the government has heavy taxes and a strong benefit system.
The real killer in the US is that they call the Democrats "liberals"! The democrat party are actually very conservative by international standards. Republicans seemed similar when Bush was elected the first time, but since have slipped heavily into the Authoritarian corner.