Evolution within a species occurs when a great crisis happens
Says who? Evolution's effects may appear more pronounced in the event of catastrophic change, but it's an incremental and ongoing process. (Giraffes didn't instantly acquire long necks because trees suddenly started growing taller.)
My other half prefers organic food, and it definitely hits her pocket book (about 400% more expensive).
You mean in the same way that you get charged more for a tin of peas to which salt has NOT been added, right?
So are you a tool of Monsanto, or are you simply a tool?
And "radioacive [sic] fallout" is another big myth about nuclear weapons. The amount of radioactive material left is comparatively small and on top of that, are alpha emitters anyway are only dangerous if ingested/inhaled and only then if in comparatively large doses.
Are you trying to be funny, or what? The amount of fallout generated by a nuclear explosion is small only when compared to a continent, but perhaps not. As for the "ingested/inhaled" part - so you think people can just go round choosing not to inhale or ingest microscopic particles that happen to be floating by or to have settled in the local water supply based on whether or not they're radioactive?
if the education system has only been decimated, that's not so bad... perhaps you meant 'almost completely destroyed' rather than decimated.
As a native speaker of English (who makes his living by writing in it), I have to tell you that I grimaced when I read this.
Is English actually your first language, or did you just pick one possible usage of this word out of the dictionary because you didn't know what it meant?
While there is another accepted definition of decimate - "to kill off one in ten", or "to reduce by a tenth" - it is almost always taken in ordinary conversation to mean "to reduce drastically in quantity or number; to destroy a large part of".
In fact, I'd venture to say that perhaps one native English speaker in a hundred is even aware of the other definition, and that your post just sounds really weird to the other 99.
Judges take a rather dim view of nullification (at least in the USA) and are quite liable to disqualify you for jury duty if you bring it up, and (IIRC) declare a mistrial if they find out you tried to advocate it to your fellow jurors during deliberations.
If you look at the validator's report, you'll see that there are actually 3 distinct errors.
In any case, whilst I'm all in favour of valid markup, that's not the point here. (And it's quite easy to take potshots citing the rulebook when you're posting as AC and thus not subject to the same type of scrutiny, isn't it?)
The point is that relying on a feature (PNG transparency) that the majority browser doesn't support and then flaming its users is a bit immature. Particularly given that people running MSIE aren't even really part of TFA's target audience.
Both KDE and Gnome use the Windows 3.1 angle, put a GUI with all its trimmings on top of an OS.
I think you've got that backwards, friend. In this regard, Windows 1/2/3/9x used a paradigm (graphical shell atop a command-line OS) that was already well established in the Unix world.
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Good point. I use KDE on my FreeBSD machine. Makes it possible to do just about anything I'd want to do on one of my Linux systems. Which is very nice indeed since I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to FreeBSD, and this lets me get stuff done whilst learning more about it.
the ssh ioslave (fish://).. any KDE app I'm using can read and write to arbitrary SSH shells I have access to.
Bloody hell, I had no idea you could do that.
Dude, you rock. Thanks for the tip!
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...and now the only thing that is slow is starting OOo.
Which has little if anything to do with KDE, since it's a slow starter in every environment I've ever run it in.
(FWIW, I generally use WindowMaker, with Konqueror as my file manager and about a 70/30 mix of KDE and GNome apps. Nautilus is worthless IMNSHO, being even less flexible than Windows Explorer.)
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I'm running KDE on an old 433MHz Pentium 2 with 384 MB memory and an (also old) S3 video card. OS is SuSE 9.3. With the eye candy pared back a bit, it works fine for me, fiarly snappy even over a VNC connection.
I use VNC a lot on my LAN. I'm not too concerned about high-latency/low-bandwith, but it'll be good if it does better with cursors and high CPU usage than VNC seems to on some distros.
Apparently you weren't one of the people whose Windows OS was wrecked by installing the first IE4 release. (My dad was one of these. He was so pissed off that he immediately switched to Mac. He now uses an OS X desktop and runs SuSE on his laptop.)
In any case, IE4.01 was somewhat better in some ways than Netscape 4.x, and Microsoft tried to make sure that Netscape would never have the chance to come up with any significant improvements by strongarming the market in various unsavoury ways.
FWIW, I just do the plebian sort of online banking with WF that involves personal checquing and savings accounts and the occasional wire transfer. But I've had no problems doing so with Mozilla, Firefox or Opera on Linux or Windows, or with Konqueror. Don't have a Mac, so you'll have to ask someone else about that.
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If the server does all the work and uses nothing but standard CGI, then the web site will work for everyone. Everyone.
Wells Fargo being a case in point. Gets the job done. Works in pretty much everything. (I've not actually tried it in Lynx.) I make a point of thanking them for this every time I talk to them on the phone or in email.
At the other end of the spectrum: ANZ. A bunch of horrid and highly unnecessary and extremely proprietary JavaScript is required even to log in. I like clientside JS for a lot of things - well enough that I've even written a couple of books about it - but this is a prime example when and how NOT to use it.
My daughter lives with her mother a fair distance away from me, I only get to see her 2-3 days a month, and I'd quite like to be able to video-chat with her from time to time.
Any objections?
(Pardon me for coming off all snarky, but some of us are interested in using Internet technologies for purposes that have nothing to do with prurient gratification.)
MySQL 5.0 was released for production use in October. Some of the less well-known additions in version 5.0 include increased standards compliance in joins and an INFORMATION_SCHEMA database for accessing DB and schema metadata.
MySQL has supported transactions via InnoDB and BDB for several years. Further additions scheduled for 5.1 and 5.2 will make it even easier to use storage engine supporting transactions or whatever other features you care about.
BTW, MySQL now employs several Software Architects (and others) who are *extremely* well versed in SQL 99 and SQL:2003, as well as implementations in other widely used RDBMS such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Postgres, and SQL Server. They are tasked with giving developers (and the rest of us who work there) an extremely hard time when something doesn't support the SQL specs, and so they do.:)
MySQL 5.0 is not your father's MySQL, and 5.1+ will be even less so.
Stay tuned for further developments, and check out the MySQL 5.1 Manual-in-progress for a preview of what's to come.
I'm a migrant to Australia, and when I arrived 3 years ago from the USA, I was rather surprised to learn that you can see titties on over-the-air TV here, something that's pretty much unheard of in the States.
I guess if this bill goes through I won't be able to watch Blokesworld or Sex in the City anymore on commercial TV anymore? Or reruns of Zafarelli's Romeo and Juliet on the ABC late nights?
So if Aussies are prudes, then Americans are... um, something. Possibly asexual?;)
(Currently I'm visiting Stockholm, and this morning at about 4 AM, I was getting soffee at the 7-11 in the Östermalmstorg, where I encountered several young ladies who'd apparently been out clubbing all night clad only in underwear, fur coats, and heels. But that's a story for another time, I suppose...)
Based on several years' experience I've concluded that it's pointless to try to argue with Randians. As another poster in this thread has pointed out, it's like trying to have meaningful discussions with Scientologists. It's impossible, because there ain't no such thing. Both lock themselves into closed loops that have little to do with reality and which by definition prevent them from coming out to play in the yard of free exchange of ideas.
So I don't bother anymore.
I don't confuse genuine conservatives (some of whom I respect and even admire) with Fascists, nor has my opposition to the PNAC crowd - who make their views and goals quite evident - any basis in anti-Semitism. And I don't require some arbitrary ideological scorecard to tell me that I care very little for George Bush or his policies.
(FYI, when I still lived in the US, I was a registered Democrat who sincerely regretted that the Republicans didn't go with John McCain. We might possibly have elected a President rather than the imposter we've got now, had that been the case.)
And I don't need anybody putting up straw men in an attempt to discredit me, thanks very much.
SuSE 10.0 was the -only- one of 8 distros/versions I tried that would install on my Acer 2318 laptop. (I misread the HCL prior to making my purchase. Much hilarity ensued.)
(SuSE 9.2, SuSE 9.3, SuSE 10.0, CentOS 4.1, Mandrake 10.0, Ubuntu 5.04, FC 3, FC 4.)
I've been addicted to SuSE since 9.2. It "just works" and I like the layout.
Ubuntu is okay, but Nautilus just seriously annoys the crap out of me.
(I actually use WindowMaker for my desktop, Konqueror for my filemanager, and mostly KDE apps.)
Nice try, but that's not a valid argument. "Doesn't function perfectly" != "Doesn't exist".
Come to think of it, liquidating anyone who ever mentioned such an organisation would be (if you'll excuse the pun) something of a dead giveaway. Letting them continue more or less unmolested whilst encouraging people to dismiss anything they say would be a much more effective of cloaking its existence.
Back on topic: I recently became acquainted with the joys of rsync. No more dicking around with NFS and Samba for me. Even works on my Win2K boxen (with a little help from Cygwin).
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What can I say? It's a holiday weekend, and I was bored.
You mean in the same way that you get charged more for a tin of peas to which salt has NOT been added, right?
So are you a tool of Monsanto, or are you simply a tool?
Or just ask Europe about what happens when a nuclear reactor redlines, no actual detonation necessary.
Perhaps you should read up on the subject and do some thinking about it before you go spouting off nonsense like that.
As a native speaker of English (who makes his living by writing in it), I have to tell you that I grimaced when I read this.
Is English actually your first language, or did you just pick one possible usage of this word out of the dictionary because you didn't know what it meant?
While there is another accepted definition of decimate - "to kill off one in ten", or "to reduce by a tenth" - it is almost always taken in ordinary conversation to mean "to reduce drastically in quantity or number; to destroy a large part of".
In fact, I'd venture to say that perhaps one native English speaker in a hundred is even aware of the other definition, and that your post just sounds really weird to the other 99.
Judges take a rather dim view of nullification (at least in the USA) and are quite liable to disqualify you for jury duty if you bring it up, and (IIRC) declare a mistrial if they find out you tried to advocate it to your fellow jurors during deliberations.
If you look at the validator's report, you'll see that there are actually 3 distinct errors.
In any case, whilst I'm all in favour of valid markup, that's not the point here. (And it's quite easy to take potshots citing the rulebook when you're posting as AC and thus not subject to the same type of scrutiny, isn't it?)
The point is that relying on a feature (PNG transparency) that the majority browser doesn't support and then flaming its users is a bit immature. Particularly given that people running MSIE aren't even really part of TFA's target audience.
I think you've got that backwards, friend. In this regard, Windows 1/2/3/9x used a paradigm (graphical shell atop a command-line OS) that was already well established in the Unix world.
Good point. I use KDE on my FreeBSD machine. Makes it possible to do just about anything I'd want to do on one of my Linux systems. Which is very nice indeed since I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to FreeBSD, and this lets me get stuff done whilst learning more about it.
Bloody hell, I had no idea you could do that.
Dude, you rock. Thanks for the tip!
Which has little if anything to do with KDE, since it's a slow starter in every environment I've ever run it in.
(FWIW, I generally use WindowMaker, with Konqueror as my file manager and about a 70/30 mix of KDE and GNome apps. Nautilus is worthless IMNSHO, being even less flexible than Windows Explorer.)
I'm running KDE on an old 433MHz Pentium 2 with 384 MB memory and an (also old) S3 video card. OS is SuSE 9.3. With the eye candy pared back a bit, it works fine for me, fiarly snappy even over a VNC connection.
I use VNC a lot on my LAN. I'm not too concerned about high-latency/low-bandwith, but it'll be good if it does better with cursors and high CPU usage than VNC seems to on some distros.
I guess you have a different understand of the term "lock-in" from mine, then?
Apparently you weren't one of the people whose Windows OS was wrecked by installing the first IE4 release. (My dad was one of these. He was so pissed off that he immediately switched to Mac. He now uses an OS X desktop and runs SuSE on his laptop.)
In any case, IE4.01 was somewhat better in some ways than Netscape 4.x, and Microsoft tried to make sure that Netscape would never have the chance to come up with any significant improvements by strongarming the market in various unsavoury ways.
Interesting.
FWIW, I just do the plebian sort of online banking with WF that involves personal checquing and savings accounts and the occasional wire transfer. But I've had no problems doing so with Mozilla, Firefox or Opera on Linux or Windows, or with Konqueror. Don't have a Mac, so you'll have to ask someone else about that.
Wells Fargo being a case in point. Gets the job done. Works in pretty much everything. (I've not actually tried it in Lynx.) I make a point of thanking them for this every time I talk to them on the phone or in email.
At the other end of the spectrum: ANZ. A bunch of horrid and highly unnecessary and extremely proprietary JavaScript is required even to log in. I like clientside JS for a lot of things - well enough that I've even written a couple of books about it - but this is a prime example when and how NOT to use it.
My daughter lives with her mother a fair distance away from me, I only get to see her 2-3 days a month, and I'd quite like to be able to video-chat with her from time to time.
Any objections?
(Pardon me for coming off all snarky, but some of us are interested in using Internet technologies for purposes that have nothing to do with prurient gratification.)
MySQL 5.0 was released for production use in October. Some of the less well-known additions in version 5.0 include increased standards compliance in joins and an INFORMATION_SCHEMA database for accessing DB and schema metadata.
:)
MySQL has supported transactions via InnoDB and BDB for several years. Further additions scheduled for 5.1 and 5.2 will make it even easier to use storage engine supporting transactions or whatever other features you care about.
BTW, MySQL now employs several Software Architects (and others) who are *extremely* well versed in SQL 99 and SQL:2003, as well as implementations in other widely used RDBMS such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Postgres, and SQL Server. They are tasked with giving developers (and the rest of us who work there) an extremely hard time when something doesn't support the SQL specs, and so they do.
MySQL 5.0 is not your father's MySQL, and 5.1+ will be even less so.
Stay tuned for further developments, and check out the MySQL 5.1 Manual-in-progress for a preview of what's to come.
I'm a migrant to Australia, and when I arrived 3 years ago from the USA, I was rather surprised to learn that you can see titties on over-the-air TV here, something that's pretty much unheard of in the States.
;)
I guess if this bill goes through I won't be able to watch Blokesworld or Sex in the City anymore on commercial TV anymore? Or reruns of Zafarelli's Romeo and Juliet on the ABC late nights?
So if Aussies are prudes, then Americans are... um, something. Possibly asexual?
(Currently I'm visiting Stockholm, and this morning at about 4 AM, I was getting soffee at the 7-11 in the Östermalmstorg, where I encountered several young ladies who'd apparently been out clubbing all night clad only in underwear, fur coats, and heels. But that's a story for another time, I suppose...)
Touched a nerve there, have I?
Based on several years' experience I've concluded that it's pointless to try to argue with Randians. As another poster in this thread has pointed out, it's like trying to have meaningful discussions with Scientologists. It's impossible, because there ain't no such thing. Both lock themselves into closed loops that have little to do with reality and which by definition prevent them from coming out to play in the yard of free exchange of ideas.
So I don't bother anymore.
I don't confuse genuine conservatives (some of whom I respect and even admire) with Fascists, nor has my opposition to the PNAC crowd - who make their views and goals quite evident - any basis in anti-Semitism. And I don't require some arbitrary ideological scorecard to tell me that I care very little for George Bush or his policies.
(FYI, when I still lived in the US, I was a registered Democrat who sincerely regretted that the Republicans didn't go with John McCain. We might possibly have elected a President rather than the imposter we've got now, had that been the case.)
And I don't need anybody putting up straw men in an attempt to discredit me, thanks very much.
SuSE 10.0 was the -only- one of 8 distros/versions I tried that would install on my Acer 2318 laptop. (I misread the HCL prior to making my purchase. Much hilarity ensued.)
(SuSE 9.2, SuSE 9.3, SuSE 10.0, CentOS 4.1, Mandrake 10.0, Ubuntu 5.04, FC 3, FC 4.)
I've been addicted to SuSE since 9.2. It "just works" and I like the layout.
Ubuntu is okay, but Nautilus just seriously annoys the crap out of me.
(I actually use WindowMaker for my desktop, Konqueror for my filemanager, and mostly KDE apps.)
Oh, puh-lease.
Where is a "Randroid -1" mod when you need one?
Nice try, but that's not a valid argument. "Doesn't function perfectly" != "Doesn't exist".
Come to think of it, liquidating anyone who ever mentioned such an organisation would be (if you'll excuse the pun) something of a dead giveaway. Letting them continue more or less unmolested whilst encouraging people to dismiss anything they say would be a much more effective of cloaking its existence.
Really? Cool! Thanks for letting me know!
Back on topic: I recently became acquainted with the joys of rsync. No more dicking around with NFS and Samba for me. Even works on my Win2K boxen (with a little help from Cygwin).