Sorry for being unclear, I talked about literatur in general, not Illuminatus! in particular, see the other reply I got.
What I meant to say is that readability is a stupid measure to judge a book's quality as you did, "if a book is unreadable after 200 pages, why should I bother carrying on? There's plenty of books out there that are good from the start all the way through." Many of the best works in literature are very hard to read. Joyce's Ulysses or Beckett's Waiting for Godot certainly are not easy reading. Neither are Thomas Mann's Zauberberg or Rober Musil's Mann ohne Eigenschaften, to take some examples from German which I am more familiar with. And this is not only true for 20th century authors either. Dante or Shakespeare might be even harder for someone not used to their use of language.
This must be the most stupid comment I have ever read. Newsflash: not all books are there to entertain. Some are fucking hard. This does not mean that they are not worth the effort, on the contrary.
why should others want to do so or be required to do so
Very simple, because the less desperate people you have in a society, the better life is for everyone. The result of the US mentality of every-man-for-himself is that even the wealthy live like prisoners in their own communities with walls, fences and security guards.
That's what you get after stamping out the smokers. Worthwhile locations have shops stocking butane gas refillers for cigarette lighters on every corner.
I'm getting sick of reading "the PS3 is harder to program for" from people who've never written code on it.
I can see where you are coming from, but every interview with PS3 developers I have read was along the lines of "it's the fucking hardest thing I have ever done". I don't think they all lie.
When asked why Link was left-handed in the Wii version of Twilight Princess, Miyamoto had this to say:
"Although Link is [traditionally] left-handed, at E3 we noticed people seemed to be using the right Wii controller to swing his sword. That's why we decided to make Link right-handed. The interesting this is, on the GameCube Link is still left-handed; because of the mirror mode the game map is reversed."
This would only be true if actually all of the arctic ice swam in water. Unfortunately that isn't true, there are huge ice masses on land such as the Greenland ice sheet with a thickness of 1,200 m.
The thing is, they wrestled half of the Netherlands from the sea in the first place. Wikipedia:
To guard against floods, a series of defenses against the water were contrived. In the first millennium, villages and farmhouses were built on man-made hills called terps. Later, these terps were connected by dikes. In the 12th century, local government agencies called "waterschappen" (English "water bodies") or "hoogheemraadschappen" ("high home councils") started to appear, whose job it was to maintain the water level and to protect a region from floods. (The water bodies are still around today performing the exact same function.) As the ground level dropped, the dikes by necessity grew and merged into an integrated system. In the 13th century, windmills came into use to pump water out of the areas by now below sea level. The windmills were later used to drain lakes, creating the famous polders. In 1932, the Afsluitdijk (English "Closure Dike") was completed, blocking the former Zuyderzee (Southern Sea) off from the North Sea and thus creating the IJsselmeer (IJssel Lake). It became part of the larger Zuiderzee Works in which four polders totalling 1,650 square kilometres (637 sq mi) were reclaimed from the sea.
AFAIK, the problem is that those packages are designed to work with Debian, not Ubuntu
I don't know what you mean with "those", if you mean the Ubuntu universe and multiverse repos then you know wrong - those are recompiled for Ubuntu and work (but are unsupported).
always found it to be lacking in software packages I need. I can pull those packages from Debian
May I ask which packages these were? AFAICT Ubuntu includes nearly the complete Debian repo if you enable the universe and multiverse repositories which are off by default.
Remember XP's desktop cleanup wizard, which attempted to help people remove things from their desktops that they didn't use often?
Oh yes, very well. It is among the worst pieces of idiocy created in the name of helping inexperienced users I know. Apparently it is purely date-driven and disregards the existence of actual user sessions during the time span it waits until moving the user's files from the desktop into a subfolder. The result was that my mum, who often does not log in for a month and more, called me everytime she did log in, saying "I don't know what happened. All the files I created last time are gone." That is, until I visited and disabled it of course.
The fact that this hopelessly thoughtless implementation did not help users to be more organized is no proof that users are hopeless.
Get a good bed and matress. Practice Tai Chi in a good school that treats it as a martial art, not gymnastics, such as the ITCCA. (It's a good idea to research the lineage of the teacher before committing.)
I don't have enough time for another huge posting to address. So I have to just pick out the worst:
No, I said that's the leverage used to strongarm the manufacturers.
You never even gave an example for this strong-arming.
DRM doesn't change the freedom of GPL'ed code, it only effects the hardware it exists in. In other words, there's no such thing as "the freedom of its users".
Of course it takes it away, that's the whole point of DRM! You can't run modified code. That you think there is no such thing as the freedom of its users is telling.
Recruiting does not involve taking by force. The FSF absolutely recruits. You apparently are ignorant of what the FSF does.
Please tell about the terrible deeds of the FSF.
he refuses appearances
_That's strong-arming! You're being ridiculous. You you have any rights to RMS showing up?
The "or later" allows for the software to have its license modified at RMS's whim.
Again, that's not true. I debunked it already and yet you repeat the same lie.
The same could be said for GNU---catchy but kinda stupid. Linus chose his name. Linux was not a GNU project. Neither is Red Hat, Debian, SUSE, etc.
I meant stupid not because of any properties of the name Linux because what is commonly called Linux is actually GNU. Linux chose his name for _the _kernel _he _started _to _write. Linux of course was not a GNU project. But RMS doesn not want to call Linux the kernel GNU/Linux. What he wants is to call the GNU system with the Linux kernel GNU/Linux. Debian is called "Debian GNU/Linux" by Debian. The others are called RedHat and Suse actually.
I never said any such thing. I said that RMS did not contribute to Linux and had no legal claim to its name nor any claim to the naming of any distribution that was not his.
Yeah, that was trolling because RMS never demanded that Linux be called anything other than "Linux."
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I'm just not interested in discussing how those pants make her butt look
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So you have a website about you wife's butt? You were talking about your browser history
your wife could be looking at your browser history
If you cannot be honest with your wife, then change that or get a divorce.
Sorry for being unclear, I talked about literatur in general, not Illuminatus! in particular, see the other reply I got.
What I meant to say is that readability is a stupid measure to judge a book's quality as you did, "if a book is unreadable after 200 pages, why should I bother carrying on? There's plenty of books out there that are good from the start all the way through." Many of the best works in literature are very hard to read. Joyce's Ulysses or Beckett's Waiting for Godot certainly are not easy reading. Neither are Thomas Mann's Zauberberg or Rober Musil's Mann ohne Eigenschaften, to take some examples from German which I am more familiar with. And this is not only true for 20th century authors either. Dante or Shakespeare might be even harder for someone not used to their use of language.
Should we not bother because it's hard?
It was a general comment, sorry for causing anxiety :)
This must be the most stupid comment I have ever read. Newsflash: not all books are there to entertain. Some are fucking hard. This does not mean that they are not worth the effort, on the contrary.
And the cynic in me has to ask what sort of horrible life decisions did RAW make that led him to piss away all that money?
He lived in the US where health care is a cover for organized crime.
Not flamebait at all, stupid mods! It is exactly what happened.
Or you could work hard, live a fiscally responsible lifestyle
You have no fucking idea what intensive medial care costs, liberterian fuckwit.
why should others want to do so or be required to do so
Very simple, because the less desperate people you have in a society, the better life is for everyone. The result of the US mentality of every-man-for-himself is that even the wealthy live like prisoners in their own communities with walls, fences and security guards.
It's gotta be said, you US people are being raped left, right, top, and bottom. My sincere sympathies.
Take an elephant make it 100 times smaller and you've got a rabbit?
That's what you get after stamping out the smokers. Worthwhile locations have shops stocking butane gas refillers for cigarette lighters on every corner.
Anything else you need ? :-)
:)
Encryption
Oh, and it's wengo.com, wengo.org is the private site of some dude.
I'm getting sick of reading "the PS3 is harder to program for" from people who've never written code on it.
I can see where you are coming from, but every interview with PS3 developers I have read was along the lines of "it's the fucking hardest thing I have ever done". I don't think they all lie.
From IGN,
This would only be true if actually all of the arctic ice swam in water. Unfortunately that isn't true, there are huge ice masses on land such as the Greenland ice sheet with a thickness of 1,200 m.
I see. Yeah, in that case sid is surely the best option for a distro of the debian family. (The ubuntu dev versions are a much tougher ride than sid)
AFAIK, the problem is that those packages are designed to work with Debian, not Ubuntu
I don't know what you mean with "those", if you mean the Ubuntu universe and multiverse repos then you know wrong - those are recompiled for Ubuntu and work (but are unsupported).
always found it to be lacking in software packages I need. I can pull those packages from Debian
May I ask which packages these were? AFAICT Ubuntu includes nearly the complete Debian repo if you enable the universe and multiverse repositories which are off by default.
Remember XP's desktop cleanup wizard, which attempted to help people remove things from their desktops that they didn't use often?
Oh yes, very well. It is among the worst pieces of idiocy created in the name of helping inexperienced users I know. Apparently it is purely date-driven and disregards the existence of actual user sessions during the time span it waits until moving the user's files from the desktop into a subfolder. The result was that my mum, who often does not log in for a month and more, called me everytime she did log in, saying "I don't know what happened. All the files I created last time are gone." That is, until I visited and disabled it of course.
The fact that this hopelessly thoughtless implementation did not help users to be more organized is no proof that users are hopeless.
Get a good bed and matress.
Practice Tai Chi in a good school that treats it as a martial art, not gymnastics, such as the ITCCA. (It's a good idea to research the lineage of the teacher before committing.)
http://www.funfactory.de/
I don't have enough time for another huge posting to address. So I have to just pick out the worst:
No, I said that's the leverage used to strongarm the manufacturers.
You never even gave an example for this strong-arming.
DRM doesn't change the freedom of GPL'ed code, it only effects the hardware it exists in. In other words, there's no such thing as "the freedom of its users".
Of course it takes it away, that's the whole point of DRM! You can't run modified code. That you think there is no such thing as the freedom of its users is telling.
Recruiting does not involve taking by force. The FSF absolutely recruits. You apparently are ignorant of what the FSF does.
Please tell about the terrible deeds of the FSF.
he refuses appearances
_That's strong-arming! You're being ridiculous. You you have any rights to RMS showing up?
The "or later" allows for the software to have its license modified at RMS's whim.
Again, that's not true. I debunked it already and yet you repeat the same lie.
The same could be said for GNU---catchy but kinda stupid. Linus chose his name. Linux was not a GNU project. Neither is Red Hat, Debian, SUSE, etc.
I meant stupid not because of any properties of the name Linux because what is commonly called Linux is actually GNU. Linux chose his name for _the _kernel _he _started _to _write. Linux of course was not a GNU project. But RMS doesn not want to call Linux the kernel GNU/Linux. What he wants is to call the GNU system with the Linux kernel GNU/Linux. Debian is called "Debian GNU/Linux" by Debian. The others are called RedHat and Suse actually.
I never said any such thing. I said that RMS did not contribute to Linux and had no legal claim to its name nor any claim to the naming of any distribution that was not his.
Yeah, that was trolling because RMS never demanded that Linux be called anything other than "Linux."
You must be 15. Get over it, everbody else did a week after the announcement. What's wrong with VIC-20? (I speak German)