You must be younger than your UID indicates. Older versions of most of the popular package managers could wind up in a dependency deadlock that made it difficult to add or remove certain packages.
Bugs are not "restricting access", and even a hosed package manager database never prevented you from installing stuff from source.
Agreed, but the history of the FSF, the SFLC, and the GPL violations they worked on shows that they *always* try to sort things amicably first, and very successfully.
Haha, old age. That means "can't outrun the cheetah any more"
Not when significant numbers of old animals die without predator involvement, with IIRC is the case. As for "Prey exists to be eaten and predators exist to eat them", I agree with the sibling comment.
I don't have numbers, but I did study animal ecology many years ago, and I seem to remember the most likely death for prey animals in a balanced local ecosystem is old age. (Predators don't kill whole herds, but only a small number of usually weaker individuals).
And re grossness: the continued existence of the practice and the available texts by practitioners suggests that it must somehow be worth it. I haven't tried though.
I fully agree with you, but don't forget that even all (as far as we know) European governments collaborated with the US abductions to secret torture camps.
Ooops, I messed up the quote tags. Should have been.
Testimony? They don't need testimony. They have chat logs implicating Assange in aiding Bradley Manning with submitting the documents. The law is pretty clear about these things. We'll just have to wait for his trial.
Testimony? They don't need testimony. They have chat logs implicating Assange in aiding Bradley Manning with submitting the documents. The law is pretty clear about these things. We'll just have to wait for his trial.
If you mean this, then what they have are chat logs of Manning telling Lamo that Assange helped him with the upload to WL. Read the article. This is very different to Assange helping Manning to *obtain* the documents, and while IANAL it appears that helping to publish secret documents as such is not a crime. And Assange claims not to have any contact with Manning.
A trial may bring some light into it, but as far as the Manning case shows it appears that the US military prefers to torture its soldiers instead of shedding light by a speedy trial. And Assange is neither a US citizen nor is he located in the US, so I still fail to see why he should be subject to US laws.
Bugs are often not obvious. As someone else pointed out above, the code may even look perfectly fine but can still exploit compiler quirks. Also, look at at http://www.ioccc.org/
Dude, give it up. I don't know what's up with that MichaelKristopeit30x guy, but you notice that he posts from at least 5 accounts, yes? Check out these accounts' posting histories.
The open source Kinect drivers manage to read the data from Kinect. which is cool but by far not enough. The really interesting thing MS did with Kinect is in the software, Light Coding, a 3D scanner system that reconstructs the data into 3D models including motion analysis that recognizes 20 joints per player.
Having sex with someone while they're asleep is rape.(...)
Oh puleeeze!!! You don't think that the previous relationship plays a role at all?
I mean, of course it's rape if a find a sleeping stranger somewhere, let's say at the airport waiting for her flight, and start to fuck her.
But there was this girl with whom I had shared an long sexual relationship, and one night it developed that I started to fuck her while she was asleep. Of course she woke up, and of course she did not regard it as rape. Another night it was the other way around, and I didn't regard it as rape either.
Then there was this other girl, with whom I had also shared a long sexual relationship, and one night we both woke up and found that we had started to fuck while asleep. So what's that then?
The OP wasn't correct, I guess that's why everyone focuses on the other aspects of what you wrote. I'm not a Mac fan at all, but still decided for a Macbook Pro (running Ubuntu) after evaluating the offers from Dell, Lenovo and others. It turned out that the Macbook Pro simply was the nicest laptop on offer, all things considered, and not significantly more expensive if you take the niceties into account.
Few people know it, but a fresh install of Ubuntu keeps your/home even if it's not on a separate partition. Of course you shouldn't reformat / in this case.
"entire linux ecosystem"? You may want to reread that post on his blog. What he *proposed* was that the base system (kernel, major libs, Xorg,...) synchronize and do so in coordination with the major distros, in order to provide a defined and stable platform for applications. Not the worst idea.
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You must be younger than your UID indicates. Older versions of most of the popular package managers could wind up in a dependency deadlock that made it difficult to add or remove certain packages.
Bugs are not "restricting access", and even a hosed package manager database never prevented you from installing stuff from source.
Agreed, but the history of the FSF, the SFLC, and the GPL violations they worked on shows that they *always* try to sort things amicably first, and very successfully.
Isn't this the basic principle behind WINE?
No. WINE reimplements the Windows API calls, but its developers don't use the Windows source code.
Haha, old age. That means "can't outrun the cheetah any more"
Not when significant numbers of old animals die without predator involvement, with IIRC is the case.
As for "Prey exists to be eaten and predators exist to eat them", I agree with the sibling comment.
I don't have numbers, but I did study animal ecology many years ago, and I seem to remember the most likely death for prey animals in a balanced local ecosystem is old age. (Predators don't kill whole herds, but only a small number of usually weaker individuals).
And re grossness: the continued existence of the practice and the available texts by practitioners suggests that it must somehow be worth it. I haven't tried though.
Or shaman urine :)
(The urine of anyone who volunteers is fine in practice, it helps if the volunteer is experienced though).
Note: the unpleasantness comes from doing it wrong. See the references to reindeer urine in TFA, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
Manning's detention: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning
I fully agree with you, but don't forget that even all (as far as we know) European governments collaborated with the US abductions to secret torture camps.
Ooops, I messed up the quote tags. Should have been.
Testimony? They don't need testimony. They have chat logs implicating Assange in aiding Bradley Manning with submitting the documents. The law is pretty clear about these things. We'll just have to wait for his trial.
Testimony? They don't need testimony. They have chat logs implicating Assange in aiding Bradley Manning with submitting the documents. The law is pretty clear about these things. We'll just have to wait for his trial.
If you mean this, then what they have are chat logs of Manning telling Lamo that Assange helped him with the upload to WL. Read the article. This is very different to Assange helping Manning to *obtain* the documents, and while IANAL it appears that helping to publish secret documents as such is not a crime. And Assange claims not to have any contact with Manning.
A trial may bring some light into it, but as far as the Manning case shows it appears that the US military prefers to torture its soldiers instead of shedding light by a speedy trial. And Assange is neither a US citizen nor is he located in the US, so I still fail to see why he should be subject to US laws.
Bugs are often not obvious. As someone else pointed out above, the code may even look perfectly fine but can still exploit compiler quirks. Also, look at at http://www.ioccc.org/
Right on, thanks! For anyone interested, that's a new development from this month, and the company was involved in Kinect development: http://www.primesense.com/ and http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/10/primesense-releases-open-source-drivers-middleware-for-kinect/
Dude, give it up. I don't know what's up with that MichaelKristopeit30x guy, but you notice that he posts from at least 5 accounts, yes? Check out these accounts' posting histories.
The open source Kinect drivers manage to read the data from Kinect. which is cool but by far not enough. The really interesting thing MS did with Kinect is in the software, Light Coding, a 3D scanner system that reconstructs the data into 3D models including motion analysis that recognizes 20 joints per player.
Having sex with someone while they're asleep is rape.(...)
Oh puleeeze!!! You don't think that the previous relationship plays a role at all?
I mean, of course it's rape if a find a sleeping stranger somewhere, let's say at the airport waiting for her flight, and start to fuck her.
But there was this girl with whom I had shared an long sexual relationship, and one night it developed that I started to fuck her while she was asleep. Of course she woke up, and of course she did not regard it as rape. Another night it was the other way around, and I didn't regard it as rape either.
Then there was this other girl, with whom I had also shared a long sexual relationship, and one night we both woke up and found that we had started to fuck while asleep. So what's that then?
I don't know know, but "Dropbox may delete any or all of Your Files " does sound to me as if the could also delete the local copies.
Oh, it appears that the TIME poll was just for fun and they chose the guy who came in tenth, http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1911620&cid=34561074
I dunno, but Assange was leading impressively last time I checked 3 days ago or so, and Zuckerberg was nowhere.
"Outside the scope of Wayland" != "impossible to implement on top of Wayland"
The OP wasn't correct, I guess that's why everyone focuses on the other aspects of what you wrote. I'm not a Mac fan at all, but still decided for a Macbook Pro (running Ubuntu) after evaluating the offers from Dell, Lenovo and others. It turned out that the Macbook Pro simply was the nicest laptop on offer, all things considered, and not significantly more expensive if you take the niceties into account.
Imagine this ... hold your breath ... they may care what they can *do* with the hardware.
Sounds like something to complain to Nvidia for.
Few people know it, but a fresh install of Ubuntu keeps your /home even if it's not on a separate partition. Of course you shouldn't reformat / in this case.
"entire linux ecosystem"? You may want to reread that post on his blog. What he *proposed* was that the base system (kernel, major libs, Xorg, ...) synchronize and do so in coordination with the major distros, in order to provide a defined and stable platform for applications. Not the worst idea.