It's sad but it does seem to be the case. Maybe they have become disillusioned after years of trying to raise awareness and finding that the common folk just didn't care. If they speak about the importance of free software principles, their words will fall on deaf ears. But if they aggressively raise these red herring issues that the average person can relate to, they will get some much wanted attention. It's hard to tell whether they will win any permanent mind share this way.
Even though Stallman is absolutely right about free software, the message of bright red colours, screaming slogans and extreme statements does paint the FSF in a bad light and will probably put many people off.
FSFe seems to be much more reasonable: maybe the two are playing a game of good cop/bad cop?
Most people won't read beyond the first page (or even half page) of any comment board, so the early posts get the most attention, mod points or not. Of course, if you display new posts first, you get a bunch of redundant threads as people re-post essentially the same thing other people posted earlier on.
It has always annoyed me how it's tolerated here to hijack threads near the top of the discussion. But, as you point out, reversing the order has its own problems. If that's the case, why not just display all sibling comments in random order? Take the UID or a session ID as the seed so they don't jump around too much, but every person sees them differently. You might still get some reposting, but it overall it could improve the format of the discussion.
Alternatively, after a while, start biasing the order in favour of threads with lots of replies. Then you get the best of both worlds.
Of course, any such fundamental changes won't happen before the new javascript interface is ironed out, which is to say probably never. Still, it's an interesting problem to think about.
After he begs forgiveness he lays them off anyway and has a driver take him to the driving range to relax hitting a few balls, then goes and singa karoke and drinks himself into a stupor.
No, of course not. He drives a tanto knife through his guts and bleeds to death, thus saving his honour. Don't you know anything about the Japanese?
And why is that?
I haven't heard of other countries arbitrarily seizing domain names from web sites that the government doesn't like, without due process, without a way to appeal, and without even notification. But this is exactly what the US has been doing recently [1, 2]. This ranking is completely worthless.
[1] http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
[2] http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizures-110201/
But, is there a gravitational hole in the Indian Ocean? Could it have been an asteroid? Perhaps leading to the "fast split" of Africa and India?
It's a huge deposit of unobtanium!
C++ is optimized per compilation unit.
I encourage you to look up link-time optimisation (LTO). It's been in gcc for a while, and I doubt they were the first to implement it.
I figure eventually someone will write the right wrappers so apps only need to deal with one API.
VA-API is the wrapper that you speak of. It has multiple backends, including backends for Intel cards, VDPAU and XvBA.
I'mma let you finish... but I just wanna say... Stargate is the best show of all time!
Oh, come on, mods, do you think it responsible to mod up flamebait comments like this as insightful?
Besides, I thought everyone knew that Babylon 5 is the best show of all time.
He who steps on others to reach the top has good balance.
