Coding for that long is just silly. The longer your session, the poorer the quality. The next day you look through all the new nifty ideas you implemented, and surprise, surprise, there's an even better way to implement it.
Of course you can spend the time more wisely, designing and stuff, but who wants to do that on a free basis?;-) I guess I learned my lesson and tired, now I'm not going to code "seriously" on my free time until I got the perfect language to express my ideas.
This guy says exactly what's on my mind. Too bad I blew my moderation by posting earlier.
How do people plan to wipe Nazism off the face of the earth? It is part of us all, for good and for worse. You can't kill ideas, unless the people themselves choose for themselves to go other ways. For people to be able to do this, they need to understand and accept the past, not being forced by propaganda, censorship and book-burnings.
In the broader picture, Nazism was conceieved by even greater negative ideas that inhibit humanity. So these events will keep reoccuring until we get the point.
"Nazi music would incite protest. Nazi's are a universal evil that we always rise up to squash whenever we can."
By squashing them, you act just like them. What makes you any better then? _Reacting_ with rage is just like "them", an opposite reaction of negative energy instead of _acting_ out of love and courage.
On the other hand, if you carefully try to educate, tolerate and accept them for who they are, they are much more likely to listen to you and you to listen to them. Everybody has something to teach eachother (good and bad). People following Nazism isn't doing this because they are inherently evil and neither are "we". By suppressing them we do both them and ourselves a huge disfavour.
It's amazing how many people still believe punishment is the key to solve a social problem. A spammer will spam what he can just like any other criminal do what he will do. Is this really the way we're going to continue after the year 2000?
NB: If everyone shall have their "justful" revenge, there will be noone left on this planet.
It might be impressive to you, but to me it tells a long tale of stagnant code and design, which has never been a goal of Linux. Also, if you link statically you can use pretty darn anything you like as long as it doesn't break the various POSIX/X/whatever else metaphors of the OS.
Yes, it would be nice to standardize more but to what cost? I believe standards should be as dynamic as possible, not standardize by limiting your choices.
Strange. I find the interface and functionality of Konqueror fairly intuitive and similar to that of Netscape and IE. It's simple, fast and displays webpages just as good as IE if you have installed a good font-set on your X-server. The cookie-options are very cool, although I use Junkbuster as my main proxy against ads. Maybe you should try it yourself before you restate what others have said about it?;-)
Gee, who said that we have to follow RMS or anybody but ourselves? What about trying out stuff and come to our own individual conclusions? Yes we're hypocritical, yes we're misguided and immoral. However I don't see you pointing that out as anything constructive at all. Not everybody lives by praiseworthy ideals, and people that do are often just as blind as others. True ideals are never static, but dynamic, ever-changing to the flow of the universe. True ideals fails just as easily, but correct themselves.
In short: To make anybody feel welcome in any community, you don't go on ranting about shortcomings in others.
Well made observations, but there are of course no rules without exceptions - either way. The biggest problem in X is however, getting good enough fonts. No free distribution packages good fonts simply because the best ones are commercial.
Here's a resource to obtain fonts, free or not:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO-10. html The easiest way is to just copy fonts from your Windows-partition or CD (if you have Windows at all, but some of them may be downloaded too).
Everybody who have Linux should do this. You will not want to barf at your screen again. You will enjoy Linux and browsing web-pages is like browsing with Internet Exploder. That's partly unfortunately since both Nutscrape and Konqueror is just as stable. However, it's free and it's improving alot!
And listening to your neighbour's music equates to stealing a car. Okay, put your hands where I can see'em and say goodbye to your family. You're not going to be seeing them for the next 10 years.
You both have good points. However, I believe you are confusing the differences here. By inter-connectedness I don't think he means by wire, but by protocol. How often do you see different protocols talk to each other? Not very often.
Wouldn't it be great if someone released a VOIP-protocol that everybody can use to connect to eachother regardless of where you are or platform you're running? I have no idea wether someone has actully made such a protocol, but last time I checked Yahoo-chat was still proprietary.
I'm not talking about all of you. Only the loudest ones who clearly didn't want to understand. The ones who cower from fear and fight back at such words as 'communism', 'fascism', 'utopia' and 'love'. Irrational fear or lust causes people to shout and block their minds. Ironically, too often in both camps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;-)
Mike DID understand humanity. He understood us, and wept for us in his sleep. Except that he couldn't really weep. Can't you see that? That is what 'grok' can mean. "Get under your skin", not just analyse, prejudice, tolerate or gloat over! Grok in its highest meaning resemble more to love in full understanding, respect and openness to one another. No bondage, strings attached.. Allowing eachother freedom and space to grow.
And WHAT is wrong with sex? Why do we fear so much, we have to own our mates? It causes hurt and suffering because no such thing can really be done. An agreement is fine, but too often we find ourselves devastated over broken promises. Our social rites and expectations are too rigid. Instead of being natural, we are greedy, envious, self-pitiful, self-righteous and right out stupid. Our only defence here is that we are blind and sleeping - no, make that unconscious!
Not only that, the martian society was in no way an ideal or goal for Mike or his companions. He developed a hybrid culture mixed between humans and martian! He also did recognize that the assaults of the martian "defence", was not necessarily the "right thing" to do!
I'm not saying everyone should agree with how Mike setup things in this book, or viewed the world. Hell, everyone agreeing would make us pretty simple minded. Which we are not. However, there's an ocean between even simple tolerance and the display we have here today.
It's a clever book. Not necessarily because of its writing, characters or even plot. It's clever because it dares challenge people. That is why you see so many bad reviews on this site.
Go read it, you might decide to alter your perspective of this world for a little while. This stuff is definately not dated yet!
It's only that the deal Intel made with Rambus makes it a breach of contract if they were to sell their shares.. They have to wait a few years I think, no matter how much they disagree or agree with the bussiness practices of Rambus.
Google's CTO Craig Silverstein comments that that particular search query doesn't, "as far as we can tell, have any good
results -- in our spot check, for instance, we couldn't actually find any Web sites that show Liv Tyler in the nude. When there
are no good results out there, Google's results can be somewhat arbitrary, so it's not particularly surprising this site was first."
They search for "Liv", "Tyler" and "nude" and get pointed to a porn site where they actually have Liv Tyler in the nude. Not only that, but the site is even free for annoying banners and pop-up boxes This sounds to me like some kiddies where looking for a filthy pr0n site with Javascript to broadcast their registry, but got a decent result instead! Ouch. Bummer. Surely a destructive blow to Google.
As far as I've understood it Winmodems are so cheap because its basically just a fancy port. Most of the _modem_ functionality lies within proprietary Windows drivers. I have no idea how easy/hard it is to reengineer, but I guess you'll have to build a software modem around it to get it to work at all.
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Coding for that long is just silly. The longer your session, the poorer the quality. The next day you look through all the new nifty ideas you implemented, and surprise, surprise, there's an even better way to implement it.
;-) I guess I learned my lesson and tired, now I'm not going to code "seriously" on my free time until I got the perfect language to express my ideas.
Of course you can spend the time more wisely, designing and stuff, but who wants to do that on a free basis?
- Steeltoe
This guy says exactly what's on my mind. Too bad I blew my moderation by posting earlier.
How do people plan to wipe Nazism off the face of the earth? It is part of us all, for good and for worse. You can't kill ideas, unless the people themselves choose for themselves to go other ways. For people to be able to do this, they need to understand and accept the past, not being forced by propaganda, censorship and book-burnings.
In the broader picture, Nazism was conceieved by even greater negative ideas that inhibit humanity. So these events will keep reoccuring until we get the point.
- Steeltoe
"Nazi music would incite protest. Nazi's are a universal evil that we always rise up to squash whenever we can."
By squashing them, you act just like them. What makes you any better then? _Reacting_ with rage is just like "them", an opposite reaction of negative energy instead of _acting_ out of love and courage.
On the other hand, if you carefully try to educate, tolerate and accept them for who they are, they are much more likely to listen to you and you to listen to them. Everybody has something to teach eachother (good and bad). People following Nazism isn't doing this because they are inherently evil and neither are "we". By suppressing them we do both them and ourselves a huge disfavour.
- Steeltoe
It's amazing how many people still believe punishment is the key to solve a social problem. A spammer will spam what he can just like any other criminal do what he will do. Is this really the way we're going to continue after the year 2000?
NB: If everyone shall have their "justful" revenge, there will be noone left on this planet.
- Steeltoe
"Operation Foot Bullet"
... umm, bottoms.
That comment kicks serious
Cheers!
- Steeltoe
It might be impressive to you, but to me it tells a long tale of stagnant code and design, which has never been a goal of Linux. Also, if you link statically you can use pretty darn anything you like as long as it doesn't break the various POSIX/X/whatever else metaphors of the OS.
Yes, it would be nice to standardize more but to what cost? I believe standards should be as dynamic as possible, not standardize by limiting your choices.
JMHOT,
- Steeltoe
I absolutely agree, there's one more law too:
If noone believes it will work, it'll never be tried and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Steeltoe
Strange. I find the interface and functionality of Konqueror fairly intuitive and similar to that of Netscape and IE. It's simple, fast and displays webpages just as good as IE if you have installed a good font-set on your X-server. The cookie-options are very cool, although I use Junkbuster as my main proxy against ads. Maybe you should try it yourself before you restate what others have said about it? ;-)
- Steeltoe
Gee, who said that we have to follow RMS or anybody but ourselves? What about trying out stuff and come to our own individual conclusions? Yes we're hypocritical, yes we're misguided and immoral. However I don't see you pointing that out as anything constructive at all. Not everybody lives by praiseworthy ideals, and people that do are often just as blind as others. True ideals are never static, but dynamic, ever-changing to the flow of the universe. True ideals fails just as easily, but correct themselves.
In short: To make anybody feel welcome in any community, you don't go on ranting about shortcomings in others.
- Steeltoe
Well made observations, but there are of course no rules without exceptions - either way. The biggest problem in X is however, getting good enough fonts. No free distribution packages good fonts simply because the best ones are commercial.
. html
Here's a resource to obtain fonts, free or not:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO-10
The easiest way is to just copy fonts from your Windows-partition or CD (if you have Windows at all, but some of them may be downloaded too).
I found this resource good when I did this on Mandrake 7.2 (before I saw the option in DraConfig->fonts to automagically install Windows fonts):
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
I got this page from this resource (containing alot of links):
http://www.kegel.com/linux/tt.html
Everybody who have Linux should do this. You will not want to barf at your screen again. You will enjoy Linux and browsing web-pages is like browsing with Internet Exploder. That's partly unfortunately since both Nutscrape and Konqueror is just as stable. However, it's free and it's improving alot!
- Steeltoe
And listening to your neighbour's music equates to stealing a car. Okay, put your hands where I can see'em and say goodbye to your family. You're not going to be seeing them for the next 10 years.
- Steeltoe
"Why is it that the default X courier font always looks like it got smashed in a garbage masher?"
A good question! Try blowing up the font to 72 dpi and you will have your answer...
- Steeltoe
You both have good points. However, I believe you are confusing the differences here. By inter-connectedness I don't think he means by wire, but by protocol. How often do you see different protocols talk to each other? Not very often.
Wouldn't it be great if someone released a VOIP-protocol that everybody can use to connect to eachother regardless of where you are or platform you're running? I have no idea wether someone has actully made such a protocol, but last time I checked Yahoo-chat was still proprietary.
- Steeltoe
I'm not talking about all of you. Only the loudest ones who clearly didn't want to understand. The ones who cower from fear and fight back at such words as 'communism', 'fascism', 'utopia' and 'love'. Irrational fear or lust causes people to shout and block their minds. Ironically, too often in both camps!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)
.. Allowing eachother freedom and space to grow.
Mike DID understand humanity. He understood us, and wept for us in his sleep. Except that he couldn't really weep. Can't you see that? That is what 'grok' can mean. "Get under your skin", not just analyse, prejudice, tolerate or gloat over! Grok in its highest meaning resemble more to love in full understanding, respect and openness to one another. No bondage, strings attached
And WHAT is wrong with sex? Why do we fear so much, we have to own our mates? It causes hurt and suffering because no such thing can really be done. An agreement is fine, but too often we find ourselves devastated over broken promises. Our social rites and expectations are too rigid. Instead of being natural, we are greedy, envious, self-pitiful, self-righteous and right out stupid. Our only defence here is that we are blind and sleeping - no, make that unconscious!
Not only that, the martian society was in no way an ideal or goal for Mike or his companions. He developed a hybrid culture mixed between humans and martian! He also did recognize that the assaults of the martian "defence", was not necessarily the "right thing" to do!
I'm not saying everyone should agree with how Mike setup things in this book, or viewed the world. Hell, everyone agreeing would make us pretty simple minded. Which we are not. However, there's an ocean between even simple tolerance and the display we have here today.
It's a clever book. Not necessarily because of its writing, characters or even plot. It's clever because it dares challenge people. That is why you see so many bad reviews on this site.
Go read it, you might decide to alter your perspective of this world for a little while. This stuff is definately not dated yet!
- Steeltoe
If you don't, you're not "l33t" anymore.. Go find another username ;-)
- Steeltoe
I seriously doubt this is the way MP3-compression works, but I'm aware that you're being sarcastic here.. ;-)
- Steeltoe
If you think about it, there is no real difference wether the tax bill goes to the seller or the buyer.
- Steeltoe
It's only that the deal Intel made with Rambus makes it a breach of contract if they were to sell their shares.. They have to wait a few years I think, no matter how much they disagree or agree with the bussiness practices of Rambus.
- Steeltoe
And next time they'll disprove the existence of giraffes. Go figure.
- Steeltoe
So IBM open sources AFS, and suddenly noone buys it anymore. Thoughts? Rants?
- Steeltoe
They search for "Liv", "Tyler" and "nude" and get pointed to a porn site where they actually have Liv Tyler in the nude. Not only that, but the site is even free for annoying banners and pop-up boxes This sounds to me like some kiddies where looking for a filthy pr0n site with Javascript to broadcast their registry, but got a decent result instead! Ouch. Bummer. Surely a destructive blow to Google.
- Steeltoe
As far as I've understood it Winmodems are so cheap because its basically just a fancy port. Most of the _modem_ functionality lies within proprietary Windows drivers. I have no idea how easy/hard it is to reengineer, but I guess you'll have to build a software modem around it to get it to work at all.
- Steeltoe
Have you tried forms in Oracle? A friend of mine recommends that. Both he and I has sweared and sweated over MS Access in school and job-situations.
- Steeltoe
A simpler solution could be to put up a Wiki-site supporting MathML and CVS entry access. Heck, it could even be made pretty ;-)
- Steeltoe
GSL was as far as I could see a library for C, not general math/science stuff.
- Steeltoe