Ctrl+V enables raw keycode input in your shell. For example, Ctrl+v ESC c is what you type in to issue the terminal reset command to the shell. The ESC is not intrpreted when you press it, but is passed through to output as \033, the shell escape character.
I don't know how things are where you live, but here Girl Scouts don't bake cookies. They just buy mass produced packages in bulk and resell with markup. This adequately prepares them for functioning in our society that no longer produces anything, and, evidently, doesn't even want to.
The ability to walk to work requires a job within walking distance, which almost never exists. In this, reality seems to follow the SimCity algorithm of job creation - jobs in another city are always better than the ones in yours. I would usually build a rail connection between them all and whenever you switch cities you'd always see an increase in rail traffic coming into the city you're playing. SimCity then tries to give all those commuters jobs in your city. Since there are none, it looks for jobs in the neighboring areas and routes the rail traffic there. After playing all four adjacent cities it is easy to create a couple of hundred thousand commuters just riding around all four areas in a giant loop. They don't get onto the train in any city, they don't get off the train in any city. They just live on it, riding round and round and round.
It is clearly time for yet another major API change. People have been writing way too many applications for KDE 4 and this must not be allowed to continue! Having millions of apps is such a waste of effort - we're the Linux Desktop, for heaven's sake, not some lame appstore. Surely everyone can agree that having KDE developers write all the key apps is the way to go. We are the most experienced and the most knowledgeable in using the KDE API, and dammit, WHY WON'T YOU LET US HELP YOU?
Wayland does not use any bandwidth because it is a local-only server. You have no remote client capability at all. Yes, you manage your own images, but they don't have to go anywhere because the server is always on the same machine and can be given a pointer via shmat. Naturally, this way you get to implement your own rendering by writing primitive rasteriser or by implementing your own graphics card driver (because there is no GPU interface except for OpenGL, GLX, and DRI) and sending commands via the kernel DRM interface.
This whole bloody debacle could have been easily solved just by adding BeginFrame and EndFrame commands to the X protocol, but clearly that would have been too easy.
The main problem with X11 is the complete lack of frame boundaries. Applications just send a stream of drawing commands with no indication of where one frame stops and the next one begins. Consequently the server has to keep drawing stuff as it comes in, resulting in flicker. Flicker is the first thing a novice X11 programmer complains about and online forums have been filled with pleas for help with this problem for decades. The traditional solution was to render to an offscreen image and send it to the server. This requires a lot of bandwidth, so the next step is to use MIT-SHM extension to avoid this traffic. Then came XComposite extension which automatically handles double buffering. XComposite has the luxury of being able to sync to vretrace, but not knowing where the frame boundaries are it can't do it lest it cut the instruction stream in the wrong place and draw half-a-screen. In the meantime, after two decades of deliberation, the XSync extension still does not implement the ability to detect vretrace.
Wayland solves the above by moving rendering into the client, as in the render-to-image solution above, and then copying the image to the server. This can be done though shared memory as well. The rendered image on the client represents the complete frame.
Socialism doesn't work either, but for a different reason. When you get equal distribution of paychecks nobody has incentive to do anything. Socialist citizens gravitate toward entertainment and drinking (well, we russians do anyway), while anything difficult is done shoddily or not at all.
Eventually you'll have a couple of hundred people owning robotic factories that produce everything the world needs. Only, since the rest of the world can no longer sell their labor, they can not buy the products of these factories. So these owners really do end up with full warehouses and no customers. Lack of demand leads to lack of revenue, lack of profits, and resultant bankrupcy (because the factories cost lots of money whether they are running full tilt or idling). A good way out is to return to a pseudo-manorial system where each community is self-sufficient in basic needs. Population density would need to be reduced however, for each community to have enough land to grow food. Once they have food, clothing (linen), and shelter, they can start thinking about exports. This way nobody has to work for anybody but their community, and the community always has work because large-scale automation would not be practical at that scale. Seriously people, a few hours playing any strategy game will make this painfully obvious to anybody.
Their tests don't work in elinks, who surely are on the very top of the IQ curve. If you aren't, you would very quickly explode from frustration once you realize that all web site designers hate you.
Since all data can be represented in binary, two rocks is all you need. The donkey can then serve as the transport layer. The connection can be encrypted by picking up more rocks on the way.
How will account closure hurt me in any way? I do not maintain a balance there. All I'd need to do is open another PayPal account and everything will be fine again. I suppose it matters if you're a high-volume seller, but for people just using it to buy stuff poor PayPal customer service is not an issue.
The only people who never get upset by anything are the ones who have no values or strong opinions or a sense of self-preservation. Because ads are there to attack you - make you believe something by appealing to your emotions, bypassing your rational response (which would otherwise realize that whatever is being advertised is never the best deal available), and inducing you to buy without thinking. To attempt to do such a thing is an insult to my intelligence and a generally malicious act in my book. My response is only a natural reaction to both.
The world needs things that excite young people to learn and become highly skilled scientists.
So they could grow up to live on subsistence wages as postdocs while spending most of their time begging for grant money to do politically correct research on officially approved subjects?
Sorry but the total is what really counts. No political party's views has any more statistical wieight than the other. Face it 68% of the people asked wanted the debt ceiling to be raised.
You are right. I apologize for my unsuccessful attempt to find hope in a bad situation. It does seem that 68% of the country are not interested in fiscal responsibility. I'll just have to deal with this fact and once again revise my estimate of average human intelligence.
now 68% of the country not only want to raise the debt ceiling but wanted it raised even if it meant that their party had to make a compromise.
To be fair, the poll only asked about compromise. They didn't ask "should the debt ceiling be raised no matter what?" Nevertheless, I concede the point.
Well there is that old saw about paying their fair share. I don't know about you, but I'm more than a little angry that people of tremendous wealth pay lower tax rates than me (as well as the vast majority of the American public)
If you were to check the actual numbers, you'd discover that the rich pay way more than their fair share. The top 10% richest americans pay half of all taxes, while half the country pays no income tax at all. I don't know what kind of a perverted mind can call this arrangement fair. If anything, it is the poor who are not paying their share.
Close the proposed loopholes and end the Bush tax cuts.
In case you have forgotten, the Bush tax cuts only reduced the top bracket by 4%. 4%*50%*$2.7e12 = $54 billion - practically a rounding error in the budget. Furthermore, neither this nor closing loopholes will likely result in actual revenue increases. The rich have accountants who know how to pay less in taxes (legally, and fairly, as you can see from the totally unfair payment distribution above) and will rearrange those incomes that used to fit into those loopholes into whatever other ventures that avoid your tax increase.
Use the money to *actually* stimulate the economy through public works
Yeah, sure, and do you expect the government to "stimulate" the economy continuously? You left wingers think that all the underlying economic problems will just go away if you spend enough money, while forgetting that it is this excess spending that has created the problem in the first place. The housing market can't "rebound" because bubbles by their nature are not self-sustaining. You can't have continuous growth - eventually the prices come down, supply is bloated, and lots of people employed in the sector become unemployed. That's perfectly normal when you create fake demand by government subsidy and then stop it. Government spending creates bubbles - which create people employed in making things nobody needs. Why are you surprized that they are now unemployed? Why should we all continue funding the creation of things nobody needs? Stop government spending, and things will go back to normal after a time.
I'm all for reducing spending, but hacking up the safety net in a time of great national need is irresponsible and cruel.
When you donate your money to charity, you inevitably create people who start to depend on it. When you can no longer afford to donate, those people will suffer. It's a fact of life. The United States can no longer afford to give out as many handouts as before, so people depending on them will suffer. More debt is not the answer. Getting people off welfare is the answer. Stop printing money so we can get some deflation, and our wages will finally be competive in the world market, which will bring jobs back home. Default on the debt, so the interest rates can rise and give those poor retirees some interest income on their savings accounts. Get rid of social security by immediately refunding all the money paid into it. Do these things and you'll have a balanced budget without having to steal more money from everybody by raising taxes.
So now that 68% of people questioned wants a compromise deal to raise the debt ceiling do you still stand by your convictions?
If you read a little further down you'll see that it is mostly the democrats who want to compromise. Republicans are about evenly divided. If our representatives were to follow these polls, the result ought to be that republicans should stand firm on their plan and let the democrats compromise on theirs.
Second, compromise does not mean surrender. Many people would like to see the debt accumulation stop sometime soon, but would be uneasy about making it happen next week. Raising the ceiling will not solve the problem; it merely postpones it. Soon somebody will have to make the choice to either default or inflate and default. There is no other outcome possible.
Do you realize he's not only threatening all their jobs, but he's threatening to withhold their pay that they earned fair and square.
The question is who is threatening all those jobs? Suppose you have a pesky neighbor who ruffled through your mailbox and managed to obtain a credit card in your name. Then he proceeded to use it to buy himself expensive stuff and pay workers to make improvements on his house. After a while he hits the limit on the card. So he comes to you and says that you must give him another line of credit or he'll be forced to default on the debt and ruin your credit rating. He also implores you to consider all those workmen employed at improving his house; the economy is bad, he says, and if I can't keep paying them, they'll be out of a job. They have families to support; how can you be so hard-hearted as to not help them?
Let's say you give in to these arguments and let him open another line of credit in your name. He proceeds to do more of the same buying and hiring. For a while all is well. Workers are employed and their families are fed. With your money. Time passes, and the second line of credit is exhausted. So the neighbor comes back to you and asks for another line of credit, presenting the same arguments as the last time. Do you give in? If so, how many more iterations will it take before you just declare bankrupcy and take the consequences?
The trouble with the national debt is that you don't see it as yours, even though it is. Your share is $46000. When will you pay that back? Or are you hoping that the number will just vanish somehow on its own? That's called a default, you know, and it isn't a catastrophe - it's merely the acceptance of reality, which is that you do not want to pay it back and never will.
a simple 47-42 majority in a poll you read shouldn't dictate policy the way you indicate.
So what other method do you propose? Democracy works by majority vote. You have your opinion on how to solve economic problems, I think they are bollocks and have my own opinion. In a democracy we tally up all the people who agree with each opinion and majority wins. Sure, it is possible to install you as the King of Amerka, make your word law, and then you can do whatever you want, including raising taxes on the rich, eliminating social security, or whatever else you want. Except, why should you get the job? Why not give the job to me, and make my opinions law? Back in medieval times this question was settled on the field of battle. Today I prefer voting to swords and spears, thank you very much.
> Why? Because ads fund Slashdot and keep it free.
Only because there are some suckers out there who still pay for views instead of clicks. It is not illegal, but is it moral? Whenever I see an ad, I'm so affronted, I resolve not to buy whatever's being advertised, and I know there are many others who feel the same way. Showing ads to me will definitely have a negative impact on whatever they're trying to sell, reducing their profits rather than increasing them. The easiest way to differentiate between ad-hostile crowd like me and naive ad-lovers is by paying per click, since I have never in my life intentionally clicked on an ad.
Do you actually think that nobody uses Python for serious applications?
Oh no, of course some people do. I was merely claiming that I would not use a Python application for anything, unless I have no alternative (I'm looking at you, Calibre). The interpreter overhead is unacceptable.
I accept that Git is faster, but when you're talking about a hundredth of a second versus a tenth of a second, you're really just arguing for the sake of it.
Hardly a tenth of a second. We're talking about seconds for some operations. git is always instantaneous. bzr often exhibits very noticeable (>1s) lag. It can be even worse in more substantial applications. Calibre, for example, is a Python application and is way too slow for what it does. If there was a compiled app with that functionality I'd switch right away.
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Ctrl+V enables raw keycode input in your shell. For example, Ctrl+v ESC c is what you type in to issue the terminal reset command to the shell. The ESC is not intrpreted when you press it, but is passed through to output as \033, the shell escape character.
I don't know how things are where you live, but here Girl Scouts don't bake cookies. They just buy mass produced packages in bulk and resell with markup. This adequately prepares them for functioning in our society that no longer produces anything, and, evidently, doesn't even want to.
Don't worry. DRACO is patented until 2029.
The ability to walk to work requires a job within walking distance, which almost never exists. In this, reality seems to follow the SimCity algorithm of job creation - jobs in another city are always better than the ones in yours. I would usually build a rail connection between them all and whenever you switch cities you'd always see an increase in rail traffic coming into the city you're playing. SimCity then tries to give all those commuters jobs in your city. Since there are none, it looks for jobs in the neighboring areas and routes the rail traffic there. After playing all four adjacent cities it is easy to create a couple of hundred thousand commuters just riding around all four areas in a giant loop. They don't get onto the train in any city, they don't get off the train in any city. They just live on it, riding round and round and round.
It is clearly time for yet another major API change. People have been writing way too many applications for KDE 4 and this must not be allowed to continue! Having millions of apps is such a waste of effort - we're the Linux Desktop, for heaven's sake, not some lame appstore. Surely everyone can agree that having KDE developers write all the key apps is the way to go. We are the most experienced and the most knowledgeable in using the KDE API, and dammit, WHY WON'T YOU LET US HELP YOU?
Wayland does not use any bandwidth because it is a local-only server. You have no remote client capability at all. Yes, you manage your own images, but they don't have to go anywhere because the server is always on the same machine and can be given a pointer via shmat. Naturally, this way you get to implement your own rendering by writing primitive rasteriser or by implementing your own graphics card driver (because there is no GPU interface except for OpenGL, GLX, and DRI) and sending commands via the kernel DRM interface.
This whole bloody debacle could have been easily solved just by adding BeginFrame and EndFrame commands to the X protocol, but clearly that would have been too easy.
The main problem with X11 is the complete lack of frame boundaries. Applications just send a stream of drawing commands with no indication of where one frame stops and the next one begins. Consequently the server has to keep drawing stuff as it comes in, resulting in flicker. Flicker is the first thing a novice X11 programmer complains about and online forums have been filled with pleas for help with this problem for decades. The traditional solution was to render to an offscreen image and send it to the server. This requires a lot of bandwidth, so the next step is to use MIT-SHM extension to avoid this traffic. Then came XComposite extension which automatically handles double buffering. XComposite has the luxury of being able to sync to vretrace, but not knowing where the frame boundaries are it can't do it lest it cut the instruction stream in the wrong place and draw half-a-screen. In the meantime, after two decades of deliberation, the XSync extension still does not implement the ability to detect vretrace.
Wayland solves the above by moving rendering into the client, as in the render-to-image solution above, and then copying the image to the server. This can be done though shared memory as well. The rendered image on the client represents the complete frame.
Socialism doesn't work either, but for a different reason. When you get equal distribution of paychecks nobody has incentive to do anything. Socialist citizens gravitate toward entertainment and drinking (well, we russians do anyway), while anything difficult is done shoddily or not at all.
Eventually you'll have a couple of hundred people owning robotic factories that produce everything the world needs. Only, since the rest of the world can no longer sell their labor, they can not buy the products of these factories. So these owners really do end up with full warehouses and no customers. Lack of demand leads to lack of revenue, lack of profits, and resultant bankrupcy (because the factories cost lots of money whether they are running full tilt or idling). A good way out is to return to a pseudo-manorial system where each community is self-sufficient in basic needs. Population density would need to be reduced however, for each community to have enough land to grow food. Once they have food, clothing (linen), and shelter, they can start thinking about exports. This way nobody has to work for anybody but their community, and the community always has work because large-scale automation would not be practical at that scale. Seriously people, a few hours playing any strategy game will make this painfully obvious to anybody.
Their tests don't work in elinks, who surely are on the very top of the IQ curve. If you aren't, you would very quickly explode from frustration once you realize that all web site designers hate you.
No, no. Stupidity caused Internet explorer.
(Typed in elinks)
Since all data can be represented in binary, two rocks is all you need. The donkey can then serve as the transport layer. The connection can be encrypted by picking up more rocks on the way.
If he were to get up on stage, he'd likely be shot by Alexander Humilton.
How will account closure hurt me in any way? I do not maintain a balance there. All I'd need to do is open another PayPal account and everything will be fine again. I suppose it matters if you're a high-volume seller, but for people just using it to buy stuff poor PayPal customer service is not an issue.
The only people who never get upset by anything are the ones who have no values or strong opinions or a sense of self-preservation. Because ads are there to attack you - make you believe something by appealing to your emotions, bypassing your rational response (which would otherwise realize that whatever is being advertised is never the best deal available), and inducing you to buy without thinking. To attempt to do such a thing is an insult to my intelligence and a generally malicious act in my book. My response is only a natural reaction to both.
You would then prefer the kids stay with their parents who don't have their best interests in mind either?
So they could grow up to live on subsistence wages as postdocs while spending most of their time begging for grant money to do politically correct research on officially approved subjects?
You are right. I apologize for my unsuccessful attempt to find hope in a bad situation. It does seem that 68% of the country are not interested in fiscal responsibility. I'll just have to deal with this fact and once again revise my estimate of average human intelligence.
To be fair, the poll only asked about compromise. They didn't ask "should the debt ceiling be raised no matter what?" Nevertheless, I concede the point.
If you were to check the actual numbers, you'd discover that the rich pay way more than their fair share. The top 10% richest americans pay half of all taxes, while half the country pays no income tax at all. I don't know what kind of a perverted mind can call this arrangement fair. If anything, it is the poor who are not paying their share.
In case you have forgotten, the Bush tax cuts only reduced the top bracket by 4%. 4%*50%*$2.7e12 = $54 billion - practically a rounding error in the budget. Furthermore, neither this nor closing loopholes will likely result in actual revenue increases. The rich have accountants who know how to pay less in taxes (legally, and fairly, as you can see from the totally unfair payment distribution above) and will rearrange those incomes that used to fit into those loopholes into whatever other ventures that avoid your tax increase.
Yeah, sure, and do you expect the government to "stimulate" the economy continuously? You left wingers think that all the underlying economic problems will just go away if you spend enough money, while forgetting that it is this excess spending that has created the problem in the first place. The housing market can't "rebound" because bubbles by their nature are not self-sustaining. You can't have continuous growth - eventually the prices come down, supply is bloated, and lots of people employed in the sector become unemployed. That's perfectly normal when you create fake demand by government subsidy and then stop it. Government spending creates bubbles - which create people employed in making things nobody needs. Why are you surprized that they are now unemployed? Why should we all continue funding the creation of things nobody needs? Stop government spending, and things will go back to normal after a time.
When you donate your money to charity, you inevitably create people who start to depend on it. When you can no longer afford to donate, those people will suffer. It's a fact of life. The United States can no longer afford to give out as many handouts as before, so people depending on them will suffer. More debt is not the answer. Getting people off welfare is the answer. Stop printing money so we can get some deflation, and our wages will finally be competive in the world market, which will bring jobs back home. Default on the debt, so the interest rates can rise and give those poor retirees some interest income on their savings accounts. Get rid of social security by immediately refunding all the money paid into it. Do these things and you'll have a balanced budget without having to steal more money from everybody by raising taxes.
And just remember how WordPerfect 5.1 met all your word processing needs in less than 640k, while OpenOffice writer needs 640M to do it.
If you read a little further down you'll see that it is mostly the democrats who want to compromise. Republicans are about evenly divided. If our representatives were to follow these polls, the result ought to be that republicans should stand firm on their plan and let the democrats compromise on theirs.
Second, compromise does not mean surrender. Many people would like to see the debt accumulation stop sometime soon, but would be uneasy about making it happen next week. Raising the ceiling will not solve the problem; it merely postpones it. Soon somebody will have to make the choice to either default or inflate and default. There is no other outcome possible.
The question is who is threatening all those jobs? Suppose you have a pesky neighbor who ruffled through your mailbox and managed to obtain a credit card in your name. Then he proceeded to use it to buy himself expensive stuff and pay workers to make improvements on his house. After a while he hits the limit on the card. So he comes to you and says that you must give him another line of credit or he'll be forced to default on the debt and ruin your credit rating. He also implores you to consider all those workmen employed at improving his house; the economy is bad, he says, and if I can't keep paying them, they'll be out of a job. They have families to support; how can you be so hard-hearted as to not help them?
Let's say you give in to these arguments and let him open another line of credit in your name. He proceeds to do more of the same buying and hiring. For a while all is well. Workers are employed and their families are fed. With your money. Time passes, and the second line of credit is exhausted. So the neighbor comes back to you and asks for another line of credit, presenting the same arguments as the last time. Do you give in? If so, how many more iterations will it take before you just declare bankrupcy and take the consequences?
The trouble with the national debt is that you don't see it as yours, even though it is. Your share is $46000. When will you pay that back? Or are you hoping that the number will just vanish somehow on its own? That's called a default, you know, and it isn't a catastrophe - it's merely the acceptance of reality, which is that you do not want to pay it back and never will.
So what other method do you propose? Democracy works by majority vote. You have your opinion on how to solve economic problems, I think they are bollocks and have my own opinion. In a democracy we tally up all the people who agree with each opinion and majority wins. Sure, it is possible to install you as the King of Amerka, make your word law, and then you can do whatever you want, including raising taxes on the rich, eliminating social security, or whatever else you want. Except, why should you get the job? Why not give the job to me, and make my opinions law? Back in medieval times this question was settled on the field of battle. Today I prefer voting to swords and spears, thank you very much.
> Why? Because ads fund Slashdot and keep it free.
Only because there are some suckers out there who still pay for views instead of clicks. It is not illegal, but is it moral? Whenever I see an ad, I'm so affronted, I resolve not to buy whatever's being advertised, and I know there are many others who feel the same way. Showing ads to me will definitely have a negative impact on whatever they're trying to sell, reducing their profits rather than increasing them. The easiest way to differentiate between ad-hostile crowd like me and naive ad-lovers is by paying per click, since I have never in my life intentionally clicked on an ad.
Oh no, of course some people do. I was merely claiming that I would not use a Python application for anything, unless I have no alternative (I'm looking at you, Calibre). The interpreter overhead is unacceptable.
Hardly a tenth of a second. We're talking about seconds for some operations. git is always instantaneous. bzr often exhibits very noticeable (>1s) lag. It can be even worse in more substantial applications. Calibre, for example, is a Python application and is way too slow for what it does. If there was a compiled app with that functionality I'd switch right away.