Comment Re:US rental industry is insane (Score 1) 261
I couldn't help but notice that you mistakenly assume chronological ordering where there is none.
I couldn't help but notice that you mistakenly assume chronological ordering where there is none.
One click shopping
Well, that's how it started. These days it's mostly old habit, plus receiving mail orders here is more hassle than simply going to a store and buying whatever I need.
These seat belts and air bags are pointless. How often do I crash anyway?
Example: 5.2e3 meters.
Looks hexadecimal to me.
Completely unambiguous to any Slashdotter.
For sure!
Not nearly as offensive as the post it was replying to.
Or, to put in a different way, that's not the paragraph that was upvoted. The first paragraph was the one that received the votes. The second one was merely a bonus.
So, the alternative is that they're shooting at us. Comforting.
That's a good point. And yes, I agree that semver is in no way standard. In fact, I was mainly lazy and picked the first semi thorough reference I could find on the classical versioning number scheme, though to be honest I'd rather just distill it to:
A version number is a tuple of integers of decreasing significance separatade by a dot. Whenever one of the integers is incremented by one, the subsequent ones are reset to 0 or removed.
Other shenanigans (such as -rcX) varies between projects, and is usually easy enough to figure out from context.
No.
Questioning suspects is a huge civil liberty breach, I'm sure...
/ Glad I've always preferred Slackware. No games, no GNU/purism, no corporate BS. Just a rock-solid distro that stays true to its roots.
That's cool. How about it if Volkerding had to spend all his time addressing bogus bug reports caused by fucked up packages people found on slackware-coolstuff.org?
Debian doesn't have a problem with unofficial sources. Heck, they don't even have a problem with broken packages. They only have a problem with having to spend time resolving bugs that turn out not to be theirs. If it was obvious that dmo wasn't an official repo, there wouldn't be a problem. That's exactly what the name change is trying to address.
The problem essentially boils down to people reporting bugs in dmo-packages directly to debian itself. Sometimes in obscure ways so that it takes time to identify the mistake. This puts an unneeded burden on debian developers, when it's reports for software that's out of their control.
All debian wants here is to not take the blame for, and spend unneeded work on resolving issues coming from broken dmo-packages. The risk of that happening decreases if 'debian' in not in the name. One of the bug reports linked in the DPL's post pretty much directly states that since the URL had "debian" in its name, the user thought it was an official debian repo.
Except, of course, that the request wasn't pointless:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-May/026678.html
The name actually caused real problems for Debian maintainers and users.
They are far less likely to put a farmer on that says that climate change might be happening but he doesn't believe humans are the cause.
Why would they ask a farmer that? He/she is not very likely to know. It makes more sense to ask... you know, scientists... which is what the TFA is about.
Should we as a car mechanic about medical advice and a lawyer about network topology as well?
Uhm. Read his post again. He didn't mention Oracle. He mentioned selling MySQL to Sun. That was before Oracle got involved. He's talking about how the MySQL founders sold it off to Sun for $1BN.
A bunch of citations in Wikipedia's section about it.
Quoth http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199702133360701#t=articleResults:
We observed no safety advantage to hands-free as compared with hand-held telephones. This finding was not explained by imbalances in the subjects' age, education, socioeconomic status, or other demographic characteristics. Nor can it be explained by suggesting that those with units that leave the hands free do more driving. One possibility is that motor vehicle collisions result from a driver's limitations with regard to attention rather than dexterity. Regardless of the explanation, our data do not support the policy followed in some countries of restricting hand-held cellular telephones but not those that leave the hands free.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon
