I'm still waiting for OO to become fashionable. The dominant paradigm still seems to be to write an application that wraps itself around some data in a file somewhere and uses it to configure the app somewhat, using a slightly different app for each type of data. So much for data-driven.
When I receive my data as an object that I can query for its fields, because the app that generated it created it that way, then I'll be impressed. Till then, well, how many of you are writing 20 different scripts to parse syslog 20 different ways?
Oh wait that's for finding out what someone ELSE is running:)
The "system" theme? Say it ain't so
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I sincerely hope that that last screenshot that shows the "system" theme isn't the theme that kde uses out of the box. Lemme tell you a secret about themes:
They suck. They're hideous, garish, clashing, and make your entire professional body of work look like some 3L337 kiddie's toy. I hate them. Everyone I've shown them to sneers at them.
At least this is true for well over half of them (I have seen some nice ones, E's default theme these days is a nice one). If this is made the default KDE theme, I hope to god distributions will change it to something they can demo without embarrassment.
All the Bill-bashers out there (gee, could there be any on slashdot?) might actually appreciate this book. It doesn't exactly gush praise over Bill Gates so much as it shows some of the not-exactly-rational behavior his enemies display. And even if it does hold Bill to be a hero, it might perhaps broaden your horizons to read a book that doesn't march in lockstep with your personal dogmas of hatred.
Re:I'm looking forward to the day they ditch X
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> X is efficient,
*cough*bullshit*cough*
> What more could you want it to do?
Antialiasing, alpha blending, higher-level protocols (sending widgets over the wire, not just their shapes), coordinate transformations, resolution independence, device independence.
What about them there ten commandments, hm? Thank you, but I would prefer a government that didn't put me away for having sex with my girlfriend and not in the missionary position.
They are all tired of the perks of office. They want the power of controlling every thought and action now. They claim it's to make us safer, but people fought and died and killed so that we would be safe from precisely this sort of thing.
Comes from Samuel Wilson, who ran a slaughterhouse during the war of 1812. He already had the nickname "Uncle Sam" (being a rather avuncular kinda guy I guess), and he would stamp barrels of meat rations for the troops with "U.S." (as in United States. The troops started nicknaming it "Uncle Sam Rations", and since everything else for the army had U.S. on it, they started referring to every piece of property of the US as "Uncle Sam's".
His hometown apparently preserved a lot of historical data to back this story up, and now it's about as official as it gets: in 1961, Congress enacted a resolution honoring him as the man behind the "Uncle Sam" moniker.
Having SAID that...what are they defining as a 'sale'? If I sell my used widget (having bought the new widgetstation II), is that a 5% taxable sale? How about if someone asked me to do some work for them via e-mail, I do the work (remotely over the net), and send them an electronic bill, is that a 5% sale?
Your used widgetstation would be exempt from any existing sales tax unless you're in the used widgetstation business and you sell dozens of them a month. Then you're a business. Your work doesn't fall under sales tax in any state I know of because services are not taxed.
Look, the government isn't going to apply this to every damn garage sale, it would cost more to enforce (and probably even collect) than it would be worth. I'm opposed to it because I just don't want the fed with their fingers in yet another damn pie.
As for what they'll do with the money? Probably make more defense contractors rich, I imagine.
It's not entirely plain language at all. In Dooley v. United States (1901), the term "export" was held to mean export to foreign countries, but did not include inincorporated territories of the United States. Taxing goods sold internally is an excise tax, which is definitely allowed so long as it is "uniform throughout the united states" (meaning you can't lower the rate for your home state).
A federal sales tax would have states spitting mad, since the states eventually do want a cut, but their ability to get a sales tax put on top of a federal tax would make such a tax tiny, or even impossible to get through. Any congresscritter interested in getting stateside support for their reelection will get a very unsubtle hint from their respective governers to ditch the idea.
Besides, if the transaction were carried out entirely inside a single state, such a tax would be blatantly unconstutional. The supreme court has recently ruled in favor of states' rights on an unprecedented scale, so this would be a slam dunk.
What is the case is that you're not going to see net sales go untaxed forever. I mean yes, there's encryption, but then that's simply tax evasion, which the seller would be busted for (the seller pays the tax, the buyer reimburses the seller).
> If they don't, I start using a (non-Cyber-Patrolled) headhunter:-)
Whaddya mean, "start"? This is a headhunter, not your wife. You don't have to be faithful to them alone, and it's not expected. Go and find another headhunter, get a dozen of them working for you. It's their job to compete with each other. Yes you hear about deadlock where two headhunters won't cooperate in placing you in one company so you lose the opportunity. You don't want to work in a place that organizationally clueless anyway.
Sure, but it's a fairly well worn path. You either read support archives or click through to a portal site, get to dejanews, find some spam with a url in it, click, porn. Or you can make it more challenging and not go through dejanews and see if you can get it two or three clicks out of the portal.
The other path is to go through mp3 sites and click on a banner ad.
> CyberPatrol and the like are perfectly legitimate parenting tools, when applied intelligently.
Go to www.peacefire.org (if your blocking software lets you) and read about what they block. Across the board, not only are there blocks that are creeated by the blind stupidity of simple pattern matching, but also blocks that appear quite deliberate and fall nowhere within any accepted definition of obscenity. Information about birth control or abortion for example. Some have started a bit of left-wing censorship, blocking out "hate" content. Cyber Patrol did, possibly still does block Focus on the Family as a hate site. I found this screamingly ironic. But still unacceptable. Criticism of blocking software is of course determined to be obscene, as any good repressive dogma would have it. CyberSitter will block you for even linking to www.peacefire.org. I could dismiss CyberSitter as the product of a raving infantile kook, but some libraries and schools are still using it.
I submit that no filtering software can be applied intelligently. Furthermore, when this software becomes mandated for schools, libraries, even universities, it becomes a very clear-cut action of censorship.
Here's another little one: killall on linux (which does a VERY different thing on sysV unixen) provides far better feedback than pkill on solaris (2.7). killall will report if no processes were killed, pkill will not. You can check for a process by name by checking for the return status of killall -0 processname. Yes this could be ported to Solaris, but it's an example of the superior command set that comes with most free unixen.
XF86 manages colors better than openwindows. Openwin is stiiiiiingy, i have an ultra 10 creator w/ 24 bit framebuffer, but just try to put a nice background pic up as your wallpaper. Dithered to hell. Just about anything is better than openwindows mind you.
This could actually be the first linux game I buy. I already have CTP (I was really unimpressed), Railroad Tycoon II (found it just isnt my kinda game) and Myth II (which is nice). Id continues to be a driving force in the gameworld, and they're linux friendly. When quake3 comes out, that should be the final proof of concept. Then it just needs proof of sales, or Linux will continue to be getting "second runs" of games.
I'll note that CompUSA has the double-width value-packs for quake1 and quake2 for linux, adding up to a not insignificant amount of shelf space.
Sun never made 386 based boxes. The IPC is a sun4c, same as the IPX and the sparc 2. Sun continues to make Solaris for x86 boxen, though its hardware support is, well, specific. Solaris8 won't even support ISA.
Oh those evil dastardly fiends, "taking over" by porting it to their platform. And we all know that Perl never had any platform-specific extension modules available until the Supervillians snuck in and started trying to poison it, nosirree.
You are truly sad, but thankfully irrelevant. I'm coming to realize that one of the real strengths of free software that it not only survives the fickle demands of the marketplace, but also raving paranoid delusional zealots who feel the product needs or demands their evangelism.
If you antialias 10 point fonts or lower, the of course they'll be blurry then, the only way to get around jaggy fonts at small sizes is to not use them. Besides, you haven't heard the same thing, you brought up the subject in the first place.
The, shall we say "novel", theory about how antialiasing works, by playing with your eye focus, simply isn't born out by any facts. I eagerly await revelation to the contrary.
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I'm still waiting for OO to become fashionable. The dominant paradigm still seems to be to write an application that wraps itself around some data in a file somewhere and uses it to configure the app somewhat, using a slightly different app for each type of data. So much for data-driven.
When I receive my data as an object that I can query for its fields, because the app that generated it created it that way, then I'll be impressed. Till then, well, how many of you are writing 20 different scripts to parse syslog 20 different ways?
yeah, queso
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Oh wait that's for finding out what someone ELSE is running
I sincerely hope that that last screenshot that shows the "system" theme isn't the theme that kde uses out of the box. Lemme tell you a secret about themes:
They suck. They're hideous, garish, clashing, and make your entire professional body of work look like some 3L337 kiddie's toy. I hate them. Everyone I've shown them to sneers at them.
At least this is true for well over half of them (I have seen some nice ones, E's default theme these days is a nice one). If this is made the default KDE theme, I hope to god distributions will change it to something they can demo without embarrassment.
All the Bill-bashers out there (gee, could there be any on slashdot?) might actually appreciate this book. It doesn't exactly gush praise over Bill Gates so much as it shows some of the not-exactly-rational behavior his enemies display. And even if it does hold Bill to be a hero, it might perhaps broaden your horizons to read a book that doesn't march in lockstep with your personal dogmas of hatred.
> X is efficient,
*cough*bullshit*cough*
> What more could you want it to do?
Antialiasing, alpha blending, higher-level protocols (sending widgets over the wire, not just their shapes), coordinate transformations, resolution independence, device independence.
There you go.
> Republicans believe in LESS government control.
What about them there ten commandments, hm? Thank you, but I would prefer a government that didn't put me away for having sex with my girlfriend and not in the missionary position.
They are all tired of the perks of office. They want the power of controlling every thought and action now. They claim it's to make us safer, but people fought and died and killed so that we would be safe from precisely this sort of thing.
> You cannot pay for a life.
Tell that to an insurance company.
Uh, maybe if they ship the books from Botswana. Hell, then congress could just levy a tariff.
Not even close.
.... The rest of the story.
Comes from Samuel Wilson, who ran a slaughterhouse during the war of 1812. He already had the nickname "Uncle Sam" (being a rather avuncular kinda guy I guess), and he would stamp barrels of meat rations for the troops with "U.S." (as in United States. The troops started nicknaming it "Uncle Sam Rations", and since everything else for the army had U.S. on it, they started referring to every piece of property of the US as "Uncle Sam's".
His hometown apparently preserved a lot of historical data to back this story up, and now it's about as official as it gets: in 1961, Congress enacted a resolution honoring him as the man behind the "Uncle Sam" moniker.
And now you know
Your used widgetstation would be exempt from any existing sales tax unless you're in the used widgetstation business and you sell dozens of them a month. Then you're a business. Your work doesn't fall under sales tax in any state I know of because services are not taxed.
Look, the government isn't going to apply this to every damn garage sale, it would cost more to enforce (and probably even collect) than it would be worth. I'm opposed to it because I just don't want the fed with their fingers in yet another damn pie.
As for what they'll do with the money? Probably make more defense contractors rich, I imagine.
It's not entirely plain language at all. In Dooley v. United States (1901), the term "export" was held to mean export to foreign countries, but did not include inincorporated territories of the United States. Taxing goods sold internally is an excise tax, which is definitely allowed so long as it is "uniform throughout the united states" (meaning you can't lower the rate for your home state).
A federal sales tax would have states spitting mad, since the states eventually do want a cut, but their ability to get a sales tax put on top of a federal tax would make such a tax tiny, or even impossible to get through. Any congresscritter interested in getting stateside support for their reelection will get a very unsubtle hint from their respective governers to ditch the idea.
Besides, if the transaction were carried out entirely inside a single state, such a tax would be blatantly unconstutional. The supreme court has recently ruled in favor of states' rights on an unprecedented scale, so this would be a slam dunk.
What is the case is that you're not going to see net sales go untaxed forever. I mean yes, there's encryption, but then that's simply tax evasion, which the seller would be busted for (the seller pays the tax, the buyer reimburses the seller).
Hm. Something else Microsoft embraced and extended, it would seem :^)
"Do you have something to hide?"
Why wasn't this marked "Troll"? Considering it's the same old argument, from an ANONYMOUS COWARD.
> If they don't, I start using a (non-Cyber-Patrolled) headhunter :-)
Whaddya mean, "start"? This is a headhunter, not your wife. You don't have to be faithful to them alone, and it's not expected. Go and find another headhunter, get a dozen of them working for you. It's their job to compete with each other. Yes you hear about deadlock where two headhunters won't cooperate in placing you in one company so you lose the opportunity. You don't want to work in a place that organizationally clueless anyway.
> Porn from, say, "www.seagate.com"? "www.fbi.gov"? "www.acm.org"? Whatever.
Sure, but it's a fairly well worn path. You either read support archives or click through to a portal site, get to dejanews, find some spam with a url in it, click, porn. Or you can make it more challenging and not go through dejanews and see if you can get it two or three clicks out of the portal.
The other path is to go through mp3 sites and click on a banner ad.
> CyberPatrol and the like are perfectly legitimate parenting tools, when applied intelligently.
Go to www.peacefire.org (if your blocking software lets you) and read about what they block. Across the board, not only are there blocks that are creeated by the blind stupidity of simple pattern matching, but also blocks that appear quite deliberate and fall nowhere within any accepted definition of obscenity. Information about birth control or abortion for example. Some have started a bit of left-wing censorship, blocking out "hate" content. Cyber Patrol did, possibly still does block Focus on the Family as a hate site. I found this screamingly ironic. But still unacceptable. Criticism of blocking software is of course determined to be obscene, as any good repressive dogma would have it. CyberSitter will block you for even linking to www.peacefire.org. I could dismiss CyberSitter as the product of a raving infantile kook, but some libraries and schools are still using it.
I submit that no filtering software can be applied intelligently. Furthermore, when this software becomes mandated for schools, libraries, even universities, it becomes a very clear-cut action of censorship.
What a ridiculous definition. That would make editing your own work censorship. That would make abridgement for running length censorship.
If this is true, and Sun standardizes on StarOffice internally, it will just sink Applix completely. Sun is their biggest customer.
Here's another little one: killall on linux (which does a VERY different thing on sysV unixen) provides far better feedback than pkill on solaris (2.7). killall will report if no processes were killed, pkill will not. You can check for a process by name by checking for the return status of killall -0 processname. Yes this could be ported to Solaris, but it's an example of the superior command set that comes with most free unixen.
XF86 manages colors better than openwindows. Openwin is stiiiiiingy, i have an ultra 10 creator w/ 24 bit framebuffer, but just try to put a nice background pic up as your wallpaper. Dithered to hell. Just about anything is better than openwindows mind you.
How embarrassing ... since I work for Sun. Those suckers aren't even in the field engineer manuals. They must really not want to speak of them again :)
This could actually be the first linux game I buy. I already have CTP (I was really unimpressed), Railroad Tycoon II (found it just isnt my kinda game) and Myth II (which is nice). Id continues to be a driving force in the gameworld, and they're linux friendly. When quake3 comes out, that should be the final proof of concept. Then it just needs proof of sales, or Linux will continue to be getting "second runs" of games.
I'll note that CompUSA has the double-width value-packs for quake1 and quake2 for linux, adding up to a not insignificant amount of shelf space.
Sun never made 386 based boxes. The IPC is a sun4c, same as the IPX and the sparc 2. Sun continues to make Solaris for x86 boxen, though its hardware support is, well, specific. Solaris8 won't even support ISA.
Oh those evil dastardly fiends, "taking over" by porting it to their platform. And we all know that Perl never had any platform-specific extension modules available until the Supervillians snuck in and started trying to poison it, nosirree.
You are truly sad, but thankfully irrelevant. I'm coming to realize that one of the real strengths of free software that it not only survives the fickle demands of the marketplace, but also raving paranoid delusional zealots who feel the product needs or demands their evangelism.
If you antialias 10 point fonts or lower, the of course they'll be blurry then, the only way to get around jaggy fonts at small sizes is to not use them. Besides, you haven't heard the same thing, you brought up the subject in the first place.
The, shall we say "novel", theory about how antialiasing works, by playing with your eye focus, simply isn't born out by any facts. I eagerly await revelation to the contrary.