Why is nobody even bothering to mention the fact that Sam Hocevar is a known GNAA troll and that his website has been used to host shock pictures and browser crashing exploits?
Ebooks don't take physical space (a real issue if you buy a lot of books). Ebooks can be taken anywhere and read anywhere. One ebook and a thousand ebooks fit in one pocket equally well.
I used to buy a few dozen paper books a year (mostly paperbacks but also a few hardcovers). Since I discovered Baen ebooks about a year ago, I've gone down to a couple a books a year, mostly hardcovers of books I've already read in ebook format. I rarely buy non-Baen nowadays, because nobody else sells good ebooks (I hope the new Tor deal will change this with respect to Tor, but...).
My current reading device is Palm Zire running Mobipocket (I keep planning writing a GPL program that shows Baen books as well as Mobipocket does...). I sometimes also read on my laptop.
The release is the Release Managers' job, the Project Leader has no special powers related to release management. Branden did, however, participate in the recent Vancouver prospectus discussion.
Take a look at -1. Those aren't people dealing, they're people who don't care about the lives of other people.
I took a look at -1 before posting, and I agree. However, the post I replied to said that one who makes jokes about the death of a close relative is sick. I felt it was time to add a reality check.
As for the/. crowd that needs to try making a joke out of it (Gates/MS jokes), try and imagine if the individual who died was your father, or brother. If you can still make a joke about it, you're sick.
Some people deal by making jokes. That's quite normal.
The leading newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat made a similar decision several years ago. Although that decision was about the Finnish language, it is relevant here since the relevant bits of capitalization customs are essentially the same in Finnish and English. Of course, not all Finns follow the lead of Helsingin Sanomat:)
As I recall, the newspaper's argument was that the Internet is a phenomenon and therefore should be treated as a general noun. I don't really buy that, though.
In the regular flamewars in Finnish newsgroups on this topic, it has been pointed out that nobody actually uses "internet" in the supposed alternate meaning (an Internet Protocol based network of networks that is not necessarily the Internet) in actual text. A message discussing this difference is naturally disqualified.
The question becomes, then, which is the One True Keyboard:)
On my keyboard,/. is Shift-7 Unmodified-.; Shift-. is the colon. So I would have to choose between Unmodified-7 Unmodified-. (7.), Shift-7 Shift-. (/:) and Unmodified-7 Shift-. (7:). I think 7: is my favourite.
I'm wondering how much vetting it takes to prepare a mature closed-source internally-developed product for the scrutiny of being a much-used open-source product.
Isn't Netscape freeing Navigator a good prior example? As I recall, it took years to bang it into a useful shape, and a large part was rewritten in the process.
Be a good netizen and tag your invalid or made-up addresses with the pseudo-tld.invalid! It has been reserved for this purpose and will never contain any real domain names. It allows people and programs quickly decide that the address should not be used for mailing.
If you leave out the.invalid, you create frustrations in the poor souls who try to send you legitimate mail only to find that they bounce (or worse still, reach the wrong person). If you do not want to receive mail, be up-front about it, and use.invalid.
Some people in this discussion have suggested the use of.example or example.com. They work, sure. However, they are meant to be used for actual examples, not as invalid domain names for avoiding receiving mails.
That's it... I'm giving up on Debian. I know they mean well but some users just want a stable system that has had application updates since 1994. I agree with the ideology of their actions, I think the unfree documenation should be removed from the project. But that should be a project goal for the next release, because we were nearly ready for one in the coming months.
I think you should wait for a while before making such decisions. This change is controversial and was caused by a vote where probably the majority of people did not realize the consequences of an affirmative result. It is likely that the situation changes soon.
When the communists (read Russians) attacked to our country, several hundreds of thousands of people died during this ATTEMPTED invasion.
Most communist Finns fought alongside their countrymen instead of joining the Soviet Union, so no, it was not really a fight against communism.
(Most Finnish communists were disillusioned about the USSR in the 1930's, when their friends who had moved to USSR were treated harshly during Stalin's purges. And no, there has never been a communist government in Finland.)
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Interesting. Finland has had anti-spam legislation since 1999, opt-in for individuals and opt-out for companies. Its enforcement and interpretation has been a problem, though. I believe a new law is being drafted (or is it already proposed?).
As far as I know, MD5 was never intended for security purposes, but to make sure that a file downloaded/copied properly.
MD5 is intended for security purposes - it is a ccryptographic hash. However, because it is a hash and not a signature, it does not prove anything by itself. Only if you can project trust on the hash by some outside means, does the hash say anything (if you can trust the hash to be accurate, then you can trust the hashed content to be intact).
That said, I'd rather use SHA-1 than MD5 nowadays.
Well, I skim -devel. I have too little time for it nowadays, which actually supports my point. We're all volunteers so there's nobody telling us that we must hand-hold that particular guy over there.
... tying up time for everyone else (even if it's just the time to discard the message)
It ties a negligible amount of time, unless you voluntarily decide to hand-hold them. In traditional projects, where you work from nine to five, more than half of your daily eight hours can be taken by hand-holding that new guy, and you are forced to do that, you cannot choose to do development instead. And that's what causes Brooks' Law.
Debian does not live in the same world where a manager has to decide who does what. For that manager, Brooks' law shows that it's not useful to regard people and time as interchangeable quantities (ie. one developer for a month does not equal thirty developers for a day) and manpower is not a magic bullet. In Debian, nobody makes such centralized decisions.
Murphy's Law... #36 Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
That's Brooks' Law (read The Mythical Man Month
recently?). The reason why it works for conventional software projects is that the new people need time to tune in to the project, and existing people are tied up to handholding the newcomers. For Debian, this just does not apply.
And then he suddenly he retroactively becomes inferior to Bean in the last book.
Inferior? They're just different, better than any other person in some things, worse than the other in some others. Like real people. In the final analysis, who gave the decisive order in the battle? It wasn't Bean. He even admitted so in the final scene of Chapter 23 of Ender's Shadow.
I must say I liked Ender's Shadow. I even wept when reading the final battle description. That didn't happen with Ender's Game.
First of -- both frame and table support IS important today, when so much of the web actually uses it
I agree, table support is important. But frame support is not - except that if a browser supports frames, it should allow me to turn that support off. Any site that does not work without frames is broken. The NOFRAMES element is there for a reason.
Which allow the user to specify their own style sheets, overriding the pages' layout?
Is that important? Why?
It is important. It would lower my blood pressure when visiting sites that specify too small fonts or unreadable colours (dark blue on black, anyone?). And it would allow me to specify that I don't like a text line to be much longer than 40 em, and that I prefer to have some margins on a page. To mention a few things.
You mean like multiple language support and so on? Personally I would prefer to have the web in as few languages as possible.
Well, I don't agree with you there. I like to read Finnish when I can. Content negotiation is wonderful magic when it is used efficiently.
The important thing is that its a HELL of a task to translate things into an umzillion different languages
I know. I translate Debian web pages to Finnish.
only major corps with lots of money to hire translators OR major organizations with many helpers - would be able to translate to "everything".
IMHO the browser comparison focuses on the wrong things. Frame support is not important, nor is anim gif support or interlaced gif support.
I'd like to know which render the pages correctly, according to spec. Which support CSS (according to spec)? Which allow the user to specify their own style sheets, overriding the pages' layout? Which support content negotiation? These are the questions I'd like to see answered, since those are the things that are important for the advancement of the Web.
Debian is not accepting new members because the criteria and procedures have to be re-evaluated. And we need to establish a new new-maintainer team.
The Debian leadership has not closed the new-maintainer team. It was done by the previous new-maintainer team on its own. Actually, the leader has no authority over these matters.
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This was addressed during the campaign.
Ebooks don't take physical space (a real issue if you buy a lot of books). Ebooks can be taken anywhere and read anywhere. One ebook and a thousand ebooks fit in one pocket equally well.
I used to buy a few dozen paper books a year (mostly paperbacks but also a few hardcovers). Since I discovered Baen ebooks about a year ago, I've gone down to a couple a books a year, mostly hardcovers of books I've
already read in ebook format. I rarely buy non-Baen nowadays, because nobody else sells good ebooks (I hope the new Tor deal will change this with respect to Tor, but...).
My current reading device is Palm Zire running Mobipocket (I keep planning writing a GPL program that shows Baen books as well as Mobipocket does...). I sometimes also read on my laptop.
The release is the Release Managers' job, the Project Leader has no special powers related to release management. Branden did, however, participate in the recent Vancouver prospectus discussion.
I took a look at -1 before posting, and I agree. However, the post I replied to said that one who makes jokes about the death of a close relative is sick. I felt it was time to add a reality check.
Some people deal by making jokes. That's quite normal.
The leading newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat made a similar decision several years ago. Although that decision was about the Finnish language, it is relevant here since the relevant bits of capitalization customs are essentially the same in Finnish and English. Of course, not all Finns follow the lead of Helsingin Sanomat :)
As I recall, the newspaper's argument was that the Internet is a phenomenon and therefore should be treated as a general noun. I don't really buy that, though.
In the regular flamewars in Finnish newsgroups on this topic, it has been pointed out that nobody actually uses "internet" in the supposed alternate meaning (an Internet Protocol based network of networks that is not necessarily the Internet) in actual text. A message discussing this difference is naturally disqualified.
The question becomes, then, which is the One True Keyboard :)
/. is Shift-7 Unmodified-.; Shift-. is the colon. So I would have to choose between Unmodified-7 Unmodified-. (7.), Shift-7 Shift-. (/:) and Unmodified-7 Shift-. (7:). I think 7: is my favourite.
On my keyboard,
Be a good netizen and tag your invalid or made-up addresses with the pseudo-tld .invalid! It has been reserved for this purpose and will never contain any real domain names. It allows people and programs quickly decide that the address should not be used for mailing.
.invalid, you create frustrations in the poor souls who try to send you legitimate mail only to find that they bounce (or worse still, reach the wrong person). If you do not want to receive mail, be up-front about it, and use .invalid.
.example or example.com. They work, sure. However, they are meant to be used for actual examples, not as invalid domain names for avoiding receiving mails.
If you leave out the
Some people in this discussion have suggested the use of
It just looks like working, but in reality it does not.
Most communist Finns fought alongside their countrymen instead of joining the Soviet Union, so no, it was not really a fight against communism.
(Most Finnish communists were disillusioned about the USSR in the 1930's, when their friends who had moved to USSR were treated harshly during Stalin's purges. And no, there has never been a communist government in Finland.)
MD5 is intended for security purposes - it is a ccryptographic hash. However, because it is a hash and not a signature, it does not prove anything by itself. Only if you can project trust on the hash by some outside means, does the hash say anything (if you can trust the hash to be accurate, then you can trust the hashed content to be intact).
That said, I'd rather use SHA-1 than MD5 nowadays.
Why are you forbidding me? :-)
Well, I skim -devel. I have too little time for it nowadays, which actually supports my point. We're all volunteers so there's nobody telling us that we must hand-hold that particular guy over there.
It ties a negligible amount of time, unless you voluntarily decide to hand-hold them. In traditional projects, where you work from nine to five, more than half of your daily eight hours can be taken by hand-holding that new guy, and you are forced to do that, you cannot choose to do development instead. And that's what causes Brooks' Law.
Debian does not live in the same world where a manager has to decide who does what. For that manager, Brooks' law shows that it's not useful to regard people and time as interchangeable quantities (ie. one developer for a month does not equal thirty developers for a day) and manpower is not a magic bullet. In Debian, nobody makes such centralized decisions.
That's Brooks' Law (read The Mythical Man Month recently?). The reason why it works for conventional software projects is that the new people need time to tune in to the project, and existing people are tied up to handholding the newcomers. For Debian, this just does not apply.
It just matches the treasurer: Manoj Srivastava
Manoj is the Project Secretary.
There is no copyright infringement in this issue. It's a trademark that is being infringed.
Inferior? They're just different, better than any other person in some things, worse than the other in some others. Like real people. In the final analysis, who gave the decisive order in the battle? It wasn't Bean. He even admitted so in the final scene of Chapter 23 of Ender's Shadow.
I must say I liked Ender's Shadow. I even wept when reading the final battle description. That didn't happen with Ender's Game.
Ah, but that's Ackermann's function. Sorry.
That's your choice. My choice is different.
Perhaps it'd be good if the ideal browser had a switch that allowed you to turn CN on or off, depending on one's mood ;-)
I agree, table support is important. But frame support is not - except that if a browser supports frames, it should allow me to turn that support off. Any site that does not work without frames is broken. The NOFRAMES element is there for a reason.
Which allow the user to specify their own style sheets, overriding the pages' layout?
Is that important? Why?
It is important. It would lower my blood pressure when visiting sites that specify too small fonts or unreadable colours (dark blue on black, anyone?). And it would allow me to specify that I don't like a text line to be much longer than 40 em, and that I prefer to have some margins on a page. To mention a few things.
You mean like multiple language support and so on? Personally I would prefer to have the web in as few languages as possible.
Well, I don't agree with you there. I like to read Finnish when I can. Content negotiation is wonderful magic when it is used efficiently.
The important thing is that its a HELL of a task to translate things into an umzillion different languages
I know. I translate Debian web pages to Finnish.
only major corps with lots of money to hire translators OR major organizations with many helpers - would be able to translate to "everything".
Why would you need to translate everything?
I'd like to know which render the pages correctly, according to spec. Which support CSS (according to spec)? Which allow the user to specify their own style sheets, overriding the pages' layout? Which support content negotiation? These are the questions I'd like to see answered, since those are the things that are important for the advancement of the Web.
So shut up.
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