I'd say we can wave goodbye to QT for Linux/KDE in the not too distant future.
If you have the source code, what would stop you from building it for Linux? If you need some obscure module, you may have to build from source anyway. Even if they do that, I'll keep using Qt 4 indefinitely. Qt 4.7 does everything I need it to, so it doesn't matter to me.
I recently deployed a Debian Testing system and I didn't like GNOME 3. (it reminded me of KDE 4.0's initial release several years ago when everything was glitchy and barely functional) GNOME3 might eventually develop into something usable like KDE 4 did, but it just needs more time and a lot more polish.
If you want to keep using GNOME2, I suggest using MATE. It's basically a renamed GNOME2 fork.
I wonder how they enforce that. All someone would have to do is not openly admit to being an atheist.
The sooner the world gets rid of religion, the better off we will be. Religion holds us back... for the first time ever in history, the combined knowledge of humanity is available in one place for those who care to look for it and yet these theocracies throw it away in favor of blind faith in primitive mythology. Sure, they're just blocking porn right now, but what stops them from blocking anything that undermines their power? It's absolutely sad that some 7th century Arab tribesman's scam to get money, power, and women has persisted all the way to the 21st century. Christianity is not much better, however I give it credit for not being in the "killing people" phase anymore.
I wonder how much of this is bluffing. There's no way they can watch everyone all the time. Even if they could, it would cost too much to do it indefinitely and if it cuts into profits too much (especially for another company that is giving little or nothing to them) I'm guessing the ISPS will only make a half-assed attempt to carry this out.
Are they seriously going to monitor every single FTP transaction or every Torrent swarm that passes through their infrastructure? Many people just go in, leech, and get out of the swarm as soon as they have all the pieces which leaves only a small window of time to catch them.
I'm not a nuclear physicist, and I could be wrong, but isn't the rule of thumb something along the lines of the shorter a half-life an isotope has, the more dangerous it is? Something that decays to another element in a few seconds (or less) is emitting radiation like crazy whereas something that has a half-life of several million years seems practically stable by comparison.
My circumstances are slightly different, but I have a similar condition. I can only speak clearly when I focus on articulation/timing my breathing and even then I can't speak for very long without fatigue. I also have to plan every word I say in advance and sort of "buffer" it a second or two before I can say it. Sign language is not always an option... it wasn't suitable for me because I have coordination issues as well.
Stuff like this app didn't exist when I was younger, so for a long time writing was the only way I had to communicate reliably.
I think he meant Qt.
And yes, Qt is a great framework for Windows. It integrates nicely with Windows and performs well. It also has the added bonus that if you ever need to port your app to Linux or something, you will only need to do a recompile and release. You would only need to rewrite the parts that use Windows-specific APIs or functionality but since Qt offers most everything it would hardly be necessary to build your app like that in the first place.
I was quite amused by Startgate SG1 for example, but towards the latter half of the series, each time I inserted a disc, forcing me to watch (I kid you not) A Fox? Studios advertisment, followed by a trailer for Startgate Contimuum, then a trailer for the Stargate video game, then an advertisement for Stargate Altantis, then an anti-piracy message? Give me a break. If I am buying the damned discs, you have made your money and let me enjoy my content already.
I almost always watch mine on VLC, so I don't get the intro stuff. However, what is annoying is the fact that the MGM logo gets shown before every single episode. (Seasons 1-2 on the 5-discs-in-one-jewel-case-flip-book edition at least) Seriously, what is the point of that? All it does is destroy the mood.
There is no objective proof that the exodus ever occurred. No archeological evidence, no mention of such an event in contemporary Egyptian writings, nothing.
What if you ascii-armor GPG messages and paste those into emails? Only the recipient would be able to decrypt so it wouldn't matter if the message is intercepted. 4096 bit is still secure, but it's possible to generate 8192 bit or even insanely huge 11296-bit keys.
The Qt documentation is indeed excellent. If I have a Qt-related problem I can't solve off the top of my head, I've found that I can usually get a solution from the Qt doc in about five minutes.
I've never used Cmake, how is it better than Qmake? I've never understood what the big deal is with MOC anyway... the compile process works fine the way it is. Everytime I need to build something in Qt I just have to run qmake on the pro file and then make and then I'm done... really easy. The only time compiles can get complicated is if I have to roll my own Qt first (usually to get support for an SQL driver or something like that) and even then I only have to do that once.
I guess what I'm asking (and I know this is subjective and I'm not looking to start a pissing contest here), is OpenOffice still the best alternative to Office out there? And how do some of these new alternatives compare (to each other and to Office)?
If you are still using old fashioned.doc files or ODF, you can get away with using OpenOffice/LibreOffice. I've used OO.o with MSOffice 97-03 files for the past 6 years with minimal compatibility problems. However, all that goes out the window with OOXML files, since support for that is still abysmal in OO.o or LO. For instance, don't even think of editing a moderately complex (multi-level headings, lists, tables, etc.) docx in Writer. Writer makes a passable docx viewer but the file will be fucked up every single time if you modify it in Writer and then open it again in Word. I found that out the hard way.
Scientific therory != hypothesis. For some reason, creationists repeatedly fail to understand this. Evolution is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory.
Also, the big bang theory is completely outside the scope of what evolution addresses.
to take the devil's advocate/opposite view: if you can kick someone out of office instantly (or nearly) then won't they all be just living for the short term and never long? isn't this even worse than what we have now?
Lots of politicians are already taking bribes and thinking in the short term. (that's why stuff like this happens) They are also stashing away favors and other goodies for the long term to ensure that someone will give them a job on some company board in the future. Like others said, they only pretend to care about us during election time. Immediately after that, we are effectively powerless again until the next election. If I call or write my grievances to a politician, they will just give me a politely worded "fuck you" response if I even get one at all.
If you fuck up badly enough on your job, you will probably get fired on the spot. If you fuck up enough times, you will eventually get fired. If you steal from your job or use company resources for your own gain, you will probably get fired if caught. Politicians steal from us all the time and we have no way to stop them. They fuck up all the time or even actively work against us and their incompetence and greed makes everyone suffer. Politicians don't have to live with that fear and they can do a lot more damage to society than practically everyone else. Not having a fail-safe system in place to remove them if they step out of line is absolutely insane. Getting one warning before being sacked is more than generous for those in public office. Finding a temporary replacement to serve out the remainder of the term is fairly simple.
I agree. Having to wait until an election to get rid of a politician is ridiculous. The system is set up to exploit people's stupidity and forgetfulness. The politicians allegedly represent us, so we should have the power to fire them at any time, preferably in the middle of a hot-button issue like SOPA. A simple petition with X number of signatures would be a good way to do it.
Don't people look over their shoulders and use their mirrors when they back up anymore? It's not that hard and has worked fine most of the time for over a century. If some people don't know how to back up properly, then why the hell are they allowed to drive?
Cameras should be an optional luxury feature, not a mandated system. Besides, what if the camera breaks/lens gets dirty?
Many streetlights are High Pressure Sodium, not LPS. (there is a difference... LPS is used in places like tunnels where HPS would tend to blind people) Lots of newer streetlights are metal halide, which tends to totally wreck night vision since the light temperature is at or exceeds 5000K.
The Sith approach for handling TSA personnel would be: (choose one option)
A. Force choke
B. Force lightning
C. Lightsaber through the face
Face it, the Sith have it much better. If you're a Sith, you get to wear black, you get a badass red lightsaber, chicks want you, and you don't have to take shit from anyone.
I've grown absolutely disgusted with big business AND the government. These executives are already rich from their salaries/company perks, so why even do something like this in the first place? They don't need the money... what can they buy with it that they already can't afford? I don't understand...is it just a penis-measuring game where executives are looking to make more money than the rest? Libertarianism once appealed to me, but I've seen more and more that people can't be trusted to do the right thing. The existence of a true free market depends on the major players not being a bunch of sociopaths. Giving more power to the government isn't the answer either because their agenda doesn't usually match up with mine. It's a problem with no solution.
Meanwhile, lots of ordinary people can barely afford to get by these days. If I were in charge of a company and earning several million a year, I would sacrifice my personal income for the year and give it to the people working for me instead. They need it more. If you need millions rolling in each year to maintain your lifestyle, you're doing something wrong.
So long as my mind is intact, fully functional and I have a decent means to communicate with the outside world? I would.
Are you sure? It's easy to feel that way now, but visualize yourself in that situation. Even if you were able to communicate and had your mental state preserved, there is no guarantee that you would be able to enjoy life or do much of anything. What would someone in that state do to pass the time? After several years of being trapped in a useless husk of a body and spending your days staring at the ceiling, would you still want to live? The real horror would be that you would have centuries of that to look forward to and that all your days will be mostly the same. Would people still come to see you after your friends and family passed on, assuming they didn't get the treatment?
I'd rather live a normal lifespan and then die surrounded by friends and loved ones. Having my consciousness cease to exist would be a better alternative to that sort of immortality. I'm 28, in good health, and I'm already weary of this world. I stay here because I have people who care about me and there are things I want to do in life, but when my time comes I will go without complaint or regret. Seneca taught that being able to face and accept inevitable death without fear is a sign of strength and wisdom. Quality, not quantity of life is what matters.
Having a steady supply of stem cells is only part of the solution, it's a matter of efficiency. Will the stem cells be able to repair organs and tissues faster than they are becoming damaged? If not, the subject will die when something critical fails. Also, DNA only becomes more and more degraded over time. This will ultimately cause some sort of terminal cancer in the subject. Until there's a 100% effective cure for cancer, this would never work.
Also, this sort of immortality would be more of a curse than a blessing even if it were possible to pull it off. Who would want to live in a broken-down, aged body forever, kept alive only by a steady stream of stem cells? Is this world such a nice place that you would want to stay here forever, even if it means existing like that? I wouldn't do it even if I had the option. Death would be preferable. The stem cells wouldn't give someone who is 250 years old the same body they had at 18...they would probably be trapped in a bed in a severely debilitated state. The worst type of immortality is one that brings no pleasure.
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If you have the source code, what would stop you from building it for Linux? If you need some obscure module, you may have to build from source anyway. Even if they do that, I'll keep using Qt 4 indefinitely. Qt 4.7 does everything I need it to, so it doesn't matter to me.
I recently deployed a Debian Testing system and I didn't like GNOME 3. (it reminded me of KDE 4.0's initial release several years ago when everything was glitchy and barely functional) GNOME3 might eventually develop into something usable like KDE 4 did, but it just needs more time and a lot more polish.
If you want to keep using GNOME2, I suggest using MATE. It's basically a renamed GNOME2 fork.
I wonder how they enforce that. All someone would have to do is not openly admit to being an atheist.
The sooner the world gets rid of religion, the better off we will be. Religion holds us back... for the first time ever in history, the combined knowledge of humanity is available in one place for those who care to look for it and yet these theocracies throw it away in favor of blind faith in primitive mythology. Sure, they're just blocking porn right now, but what stops them from blocking anything that undermines their power? It's absolutely sad that some 7th century Arab tribesman's scam to get money, power, and women has persisted all the way to the 21st century. Christianity is not much better, however I give it credit for not being in the "killing people" phase anymore.
I wish we had more guys like this running companies in the US instead of the greedy sociopathic bastards we have in abundance.
I wonder how much of this is bluffing. There's no way they can watch everyone all the time. Even if they could, it would cost too much to do it indefinitely and if it cuts into profits too much (especially for another company that is giving little or nothing to them) I'm guessing the ISPS will only make a half-assed attempt to carry this out.
Are they seriously going to monitor every single FTP transaction or every Torrent swarm that passes through their infrastructure? Many people just go in, leech, and get out of the swarm as soon as they have all the pieces which leaves only a small window of time to catch them.
I'm not a nuclear physicist, and I could be wrong, but isn't the rule of thumb something along the lines of the shorter a half-life an isotope has, the more dangerous it is? Something that decays to another element in a few seconds (or less) is emitting radiation like crazy whereas something that has a half-life of several million years seems practically stable by comparison.
My circumstances are slightly different, but I have a similar condition. I can only speak clearly when I focus on articulation/timing my breathing and even then I can't speak for very long without fatigue. I also have to plan every word I say in advance and sort of "buffer" it a second or two before I can say it. Sign language is not always an option... it wasn't suitable for me because I have coordination issues as well.
Stuff like this app didn't exist when I was younger, so for a long time writing was the only way I had to communicate reliably.
I think he meant Qt. And yes, Qt is a great framework for Windows. It integrates nicely with Windows and performs well. It also has the added bonus that if you ever need to port your app to Linux or something, you will only need to do a recompile and release. You would only need to rewrite the parts that use Windows-specific APIs or functionality but since Qt offers most everything it would hardly be necessary to build your app like that in the first place.
I almost always watch mine on VLC, so I don't get the intro stuff. However, what is annoying is the fact that the MGM logo gets shown before every single episode. (Seasons 1-2 on the 5-discs-in-one-jewel-case-flip-book edition at least) Seriously, what is the point of that? All it does is destroy the mood.
There is no objective proof that the exodus ever occurred. No archeological evidence, no mention of such an event in contemporary Egyptian writings, nothing.
What if you ascii-armor GPG messages and paste those into emails? Only the recipient would be able to decrypt so it wouldn't matter if the message is intercepted. 4096 bit is still secure, but it's possible to generate 8192 bit or even insanely huge 11296-bit keys.
The Qt documentation is indeed excellent. If I have a Qt-related problem I can't solve off the top of my head, I've found that I can usually get a solution from the Qt doc in about five minutes.
I've never used Cmake, how is it better than Qmake? I've never understood what the big deal is with MOC anyway... the compile process works fine the way it is. Everytime I need to build something in Qt I just have to run qmake on the pro file and then make and then I'm done... really easy. The only time compiles can get complicated is if I have to roll my own Qt first (usually to get support for an SQL driver or something like that) and even then I only have to do that once.
If you are still using old fashioned .doc files or ODF, you can get away with using OpenOffice/LibreOffice. I've used OO.o with MSOffice 97-03 files for the past 6 years with minimal compatibility problems. However, all that goes out the window with OOXML files, since support for that is still abysmal in OO.o or LO. For instance, don't even think of editing a moderately complex (multi-level headings, lists, tables, etc.) docx in Writer. Writer makes a passable docx viewer but the file will be fucked up every single time if you modify it in Writer and then open it again in Word. I found that out the hard way.
Scientific therory != hypothesis. For some reason, creationists repeatedly fail to understand this. Evolution is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory. Also, the big bang theory is completely outside the scope of what evolution addresses.
Lots of politicians are already taking bribes and thinking in the short term. (that's why stuff like this happens) They are also stashing away favors and other goodies for the long term to ensure that someone will give them a job on some company board in the future. Like others said, they only pretend to care about us during election time. Immediately after that, we are effectively powerless again until the next election. If I call or write my grievances to a politician, they will just give me a politely worded "fuck you" response if I even get one at all.
If you fuck up badly enough on your job, you will probably get fired on the spot. If you fuck up enough times, you will eventually get fired. If you steal from your job or use company resources for your own gain, you will probably get fired if caught. Politicians steal from us all the time and we have no way to stop them. They fuck up all the time or even actively work against us and their incompetence and greed makes everyone suffer. Politicians don't have to live with that fear and they can do a lot more damage to society than practically everyone else. Not having a fail-safe system in place to remove them if they step out of line is absolutely insane. Getting one warning before being sacked is more than generous for those in public office. Finding a temporary replacement to serve out the remainder of the term is fairly simple.
I agree. Having to wait until an election to get rid of a politician is ridiculous. The system is set up to exploit people's stupidity and forgetfulness. The politicians allegedly represent us, so we should have the power to fire them at any time, preferably in the middle of a hot-button issue like SOPA. A simple petition with X number of signatures would be a good way to do it.
I'm surprised that no one got the Doom reference. (as far as I can tell)
Then again, it is Friday.
Nope, more like UAC.
I really hope they don't start working on teleportation technology. If they do, they had better stock up on plasma rifles and miniguns first.
Don't people look over their shoulders and use their mirrors when they back up anymore? It's not that hard and has worked fine most of the time for over a century. If some people don't know how to back up properly, then why the hell are they allowed to drive?
Cameras should be an optional luxury feature, not a mandated system. Besides, what if the camera breaks/lens gets dirty?
Many streetlights are High Pressure Sodium, not LPS. (there is a difference... LPS is used in places like tunnels where HPS would tend to blind people) Lots of newer streetlights are metal halide, which tends to totally wreck night vision since the light temperature is at or exceeds 5000K.
I've tried Office 2010 on Wine. It won't even install.
The Sith approach for handling TSA personnel would be: (choose one option)
A. Force choke
B. Force lightning
C. Lightsaber through the face
Face it, the Sith have it much better. If you're a Sith, you get to wear black, you get a badass red lightsaber, chicks want you, and you don't have to take shit from anyone.
I've grown absolutely disgusted with big business AND the government. These executives are already rich from their salaries/company perks, so why even do something like this in the first place? They don't need the money... what can they buy with it that they already can't afford? I don't understand...is it just a penis-measuring game where executives are looking to make more money than the rest? Libertarianism once appealed to me, but I've seen more and more that people can't be trusted to do the right thing. The existence of a true free market depends on the major players not being a bunch of sociopaths. Giving more power to the government isn't the answer either because their agenda doesn't usually match up with mine. It's a problem with no solution.
Meanwhile, lots of ordinary people can barely afford to get by these days. If I were in charge of a company and earning several million a year, I would sacrifice my personal income for the year and give it to the people working for me instead. They need it more. If you need millions rolling in each year to maintain your lifestyle, you're doing something wrong.
Are you sure? It's easy to feel that way now, but visualize yourself in that situation. Even if you were able to communicate and had your mental state preserved, there is no guarantee that you would be able to enjoy life or do much of anything. What would someone in that state do to pass the time? After several years of being trapped in a useless husk of a body and spending your days staring at the ceiling, would you still want to live? The real horror would be that you would have centuries of that to look forward to and that all your days will be mostly the same. Would people still come to see you after your friends and family passed on, assuming they didn't get the treatment?
I'd rather live a normal lifespan and then die surrounded by friends and loved ones. Having my consciousness cease to exist would be a better alternative to that sort of immortality. I'm 28, in good health, and I'm already weary of this world. I stay here because I have people who care about me and there are things I want to do in life, but when my time comes I will go without complaint or regret. Seneca taught that being able to face and accept inevitable death without fear is a sign of strength and wisdom. Quality, not quantity of life is what matters.
Having a steady supply of stem cells is only part of the solution, it's a matter of efficiency. Will the stem cells be able to repair organs and tissues faster than they are becoming damaged? If not, the subject will die when something critical fails. Also, DNA only becomes more and more degraded over time. This will ultimately cause some sort of terminal cancer in the subject. Until there's a 100% effective cure for cancer, this would never work.
Also, this sort of immortality would be more of a curse than a blessing even if it were possible to pull it off. Who would want to live in a broken-down, aged body forever, kept alive only by a steady stream of stem cells? Is this world such a nice place that you would want to stay here forever, even if it means existing like that? I wouldn't do it even if I had the option. Death would be preferable. The stem cells wouldn't give someone who is 250 years old the same body they had at 18...they would probably be trapped in a bed in a severely debilitated state. The worst type of immortality is one that brings no pleasure.