So, in short, the "commonality" between all of these is that the government controls the economy. The goals are completely different.
The goals may be different but the effects have been identical. The only difference in the effects of the different socialist movements (afaik) is one of scale; the communists have managed to murder a lot more people in a lot more places and are still around. National socialism got more or less wiped out with the end of WWII.
I don't see how Mozilla using swastikas (sp?) would be any better or worse than their current red five-pointed star. In my mind, both of those socialist logotypes (and others) stand for murdering millions of people.
The Mozilla team's excuse for using the red five-pointed star is that they connect it with being revolutionary. IMO they could just as well use swastikas (sp?) because they are connected with trying to take over the world. Both ideas suck big time, but one has been implemented and they refuse to let it go.
You can also use the standard Debian Bug Tracking System
IMO, Debbugs isn't that great either. Its major problem from my POV is the read-only web gui. Considering one of the projects on the new SF site is a GNOME front end for the BTS, I'm obviously not the only one discontent with Debbugs.
Personally I find Bugzilla far superior to Debbugs as well as the SF BTS, but the lack of an e-mail interface to Bugzilla is apparently keeping it from replacing Debbugs.
I know complaining is easy and helping out is what counts, but I don't have the resources to actually do anything about this. Thus, my complaints is all you get. Take 'em or leave 'em.
The reason for not compressing stuff by default is to keep latency low. As long as you are on a LAN, this is a good idea, and is so by design.
For people wanting to use X over low bandwidth connections, the X consortium (?) in their infinite wisdom invented LBX ("low bandwidth X").
Note that I don't know much about LBX except for the above, so if you used it and you think it sucks, it probably does. My point is that the X Consortium hasn't been ignoring bandwidth as you seem to suggest.
So the Linux kernel sometimes break compatibility with proprietary kernel modules. This is arrogant.
Companies sometimes write binary modules that work only with one exact version of the kernel for one architecture, thus preventing their customers from upgrading both their OS and hardware.
How is this any better? Why pick on the kernel developers but not on the binary modules creators?
I am using one as well and can really recommend it.
One word of warning: It took me something like a month before I was able to type on one of these keyboards as fast as I did on an ordinary one. So if you buy one of these, have patience.
Now that I'm there however, there is no looking back. I can warmly recommend these keyboards.
IMO, their C(++) plugin currently looks very promising but isn't quite there yet. You have a rather nice source browser, and you can compile programs (using your old Makefiles) and have errors turned into clickable tasks.
The debugging UI is more or less identical to their Java debugging UI, but as I haven't been able to try it on a large project yet I can't say how well it works in practice.
I don't know about the numbers for the US, but I have some idea about the numbers for Sweden (where I live). If I want to hire somebody to do something that is worth 100:- to me, the money gets spent thusly:
25:- tax is paid by the employer
23:- (30% of what's left) tax is paid by the employee
The employee then pays 25% VAT when shopping, except for food that is taxed by 12,5%
Thus, after taxes my 100:- gives my employee 40:- to do with what (s)he wishes. This is for people with normal incomes, if you have a high income, roughly 2/3 goes away in taxes.
Regarding the socialist part, Sweden has been ruled by socialist parties during all but nine of the last 70 years. So at least here, that part is correct. Can't speak for any other part of Europe (or for the US).
How's the situation in the US? How high are the corresponding taxes there?
Secondly, I don't know about this Google toolbar replacement thing. Google is pretty much my sole search engine, though I wouldn't mind having dictionary and translate buttons. I'm not convinced that Phoenix's replacement can compare (Mozilla's couldn't.)
I don't know what Phoenix has built in, but a Google Toolbar clone for Mozilla is available here.
From the web page: The Googlebar project was initially created to address the widespread desire in the mozilla community for the Google toolbar to support Netscape 7/Mozilla [...]. Our current release emulates all of the basic search functionality of the toolbar
Judging from the screenshots they look quite similar.
Weird that it's still open in the BTS then. Could you please post a comment in the BTS about this? The bug was last commented upon two weeks ago, so I'm not the only one not knowing anything about this.
Are you sure you aren't just mixing this up with the UI for the <link> element? In other words, does your up button work on any page (like this one), or just for some?
While Galeon very well may, Mozilla does not have an up button. However there is a feature request for one open in the bug tracking system. If you want it too, help fix it or at least vote for it!
They could have an option for reversing search results (i.e. least interesting hits first). If they have translated their user interface to "Bork, Bork, Bork" (check the interface languages list in the preferences), why not this as well?
And I agree the parent shoulda been rated "funny", not "informative"...
Considering the hoops you have to jump through to do anything with their bug tracking system (note the WONTFIX tag), I have actually given up about that:-(. Those problems have been there for at least half a year, without anything visible being done about them. Sooner or (probably) later they will probably get those things fixed, but they have currently at least managed to scare me off from reporting any bugs. So when I run into any, I just suffer in silence:-(.
As another data point, I just timed it on my (still 400MHz PentiumII) system with 819 Debian packages, and it took a bit under 20 minutes to complete. So 45 minutes on your system is definitely wrong. But as I said before, if you send me the output from running without piping the results through sort, we'll see what we can do about your problem.
On my system (a 400MHz Pentium II), the first phase ("Calculating ages of NN packages") takes quite a while (15 minutes?), with a percentage counter ticking up every couple of seconds. This part actually does stat() on all files included in any package, so this part should definitely take more than "a few seconds" (while doing mucho disk access). If this part actually takes only a few secs, the problem might be somewhere in this phase. Could you e-mail me the complete output of running the program without passing the result through sort?
The second (inter-dependency resolving) phase performs one packaging system (rpm or dpkg) call per package, so (especially on a Debian system), this may take a while with lots of CPU usage but not so much disk access. But as I stated above, do e-mail me your output (without sort) and we'll see if we can resolve your problem.
Cheers//Johan
Checking which packages you never use
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· Score: 5, Informative
Shameless plug:
I have written a small tcl script (called pkgusage) that lists all your installed packages (RPMs or DEBs) together with the number of days ago you last accessed any of the files in each package. Thus, if you do "pkgusage.tcl | sort -n", packages which you seldom / never use will be at the end of the list.
It also checks dependencies between packages, so it won't tell you to uninstall a package that something else depends on.
Capitalism is geared toward utilizing resources as quickly as possible for maximum capital growth
AFAIU, if capitalism is geared towards anything of the sort, it is to utilizing resources as efficiently as possible, not as quickly as possible. The quickest way (I can come up with) of "utilizing" a resource should be to blow it up. Blowing stuff up is not the main point of capitalism...
You could see this as kind of a hint to anybody interested that the current single player startup mechanism is maybe a tad too complicated. Just because you find this obvious doesn't mean everybody does.
So how are the FreeCiv launcher writing projects coming along? Anything complete(ish) out there? It seems as if your help is very much needed. Will you be shipped with 1.14?
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No you can't. MS are the only ones with access to the source code, so when something needs patching, you're screwed.
I think the term often used to describe this situation is "vendor lock-in". Usually something considered bad by buyers of everything but software.
The goals may be different but the effects have been identical. The only difference in the effects of the different socialist movements (afaik) is one of scale; the communists have managed to murder a lot more people in a lot more places and are still around. National socialism got more or less wiped out with the end of WWII.
I don't see how Mozilla using swastikas (sp?) would be any better or worse than their current red five-pointed star. In my mind, both of those socialist logotypes (and others) stand for murdering millions of people.
The Mozilla team's excuse for using the red five-pointed star is that they connect it with being revolutionary. IMO they could just as well use swastikas (sp?) because they are connected with trying to take over the world. Both ideas suck big time, but one has been implemented and they refuse to let it go.
What's yours?
IMO, Debbugs isn't that great either. Its major problem from my POV is the read-only web gui. Considering one of the projects on the new SF site is a GNOME front end for the BTS, I'm obviously not the only one discontent with Debbugs.
Personally I find Bugzilla far superior to Debbugs as well as the SF BTS, but the lack of an e-mail interface to Bugzilla is apparently keeping it from replacing Debbugs.
I know complaining is easy and helping out is what counts, but I don't have the resources to actually do anything about this. Thus, my complaints is all you get. Take 'em or leave 'em.
There is a 128x128 tileset that might suit you better. Haven't tried it myself, but it looks good on the web at least :-).
For people wanting to use X over low bandwidth connections, the X consortium (?) in their infinite wisdom invented LBX ("low bandwidth X").
Note that I don't know much about LBX except for the above, so if you used it and you think it sucks, it probably does. My point is that the X Consortium hasn't been ignoring bandwidth as you seem to suggest.
The one between Communist USSR and National Socialist Germany.
I'd like to know where to send my anti-dictatorship e-mail. Anybody got Saddam's e-mail address?
Companies sometimes write binary modules that work only with one exact version of the kernel for one architecture, thus preventing their customers from upgrading both their OS and hardware.
How is this any better? Why pick on the kernel developers but not on the binary modules creators?
One word of warning: It took me something like a month before I was able to type on one of these keyboards as fast as I did on an ordinary one. So if you buy one of these, have patience.
Now that I'm there however, there is no looking back. I can warmly recommend these keyboards.
But if the CDT gets anywhere near their Java Development Environment, I'll be in heaven :-).
- 25:- tax is paid by the employer
- 23:- (30% of what's left) tax is paid by the employee
- The employee then pays 25% VAT when shopping, except for food that is taxed by 12,5%
Thus, after taxes my 100:- gives my employee 40:- to do with what (s)he wishes. This is for people with normal incomes, if you have a high income, roughly 2/3 goes away in taxes.Regarding the socialist part, Sweden has been ruled by socialist parties during all but nine of the last 70 years. So at least here, that part is correct. Can't speak for any other part of Europe (or for the US).
How's the situation in the US? How high are the corresponding taxes there?
... or try the Googlebar.
I don't know what Phoenix has built in, but a Google Toolbar clone for Mozilla is available here.
From the web page: The Googlebar project was initially created to address the widespread desire in the mozilla community for the Google toolbar to support Netscape 7/Mozilla [...]. Our current release emulates all of the basic search functionality of the toolbar
Judging from the screenshots they look quite similar.
Cheers //Johan
Are you sure you aren't just mixing this up with the UI for the <link> element? In other words, does your up button work on any page (like this one), or just for some?
While Galeon very well may, Mozilla does not have an up button. However there is a feature request for one open in the bug tracking system. If you want it too, help fix it or at least vote for it!
Cheers //Johan
... and is available here. I have no idea about how far along they are.
And I agree the parent shoulda been rated "funny", not "informative"...
YMMV.
As another data point, I just timed it on my (still 400MHz PentiumII) system with 819 Debian packages, and it took a bit under 20 minutes to complete. So 45 minutes on your system is definitely wrong. But as I said before, if you send me the output from running without piping the results through sort, we'll see what we can do about your problem.
The second (inter-dependency resolving) phase performs one packaging system (rpm or dpkg) call per package, so (especially on a Debian system), this may take a while with lots of CPU usage but not so much disk access. But as I stated above, do e-mail me your output (without sort) and we'll see if we can resolve your problem.
Cheers //Johan
I have written a small tcl script (called pkgusage) that lists all your installed packages (RPMs or DEBs) together with the number of days ago you last accessed any of the files in each package. Thus, if you do "pkgusage.tcl | sort -n", packages which you seldom / never use will be at the end of the list.
It also checks dependencies between packages, so it won't tell you to uninstall a package that something else depends on.
If you are interested, get it here.
AFAIU, if capitalism is geared towards anything of the sort, it is to utilizing resources as efficiently as possible, not as quickly as possible. The quickest way (I can come up with) of "utilizing" a resource should be to blow it up. Blowing stuff up is not the main point of capitalism...
So how are the FreeCiv launcher writing projects coming along? Anything complete(ish) out there? It seems as if your help is very much needed. Will you be shipped with 1.14?