Comment Re:A nice KDE implementation, but... (Score 1) 117
was replying to guy mentioning his favorite KDE based distro
But you put it in a list of advantages PC-BSD has over a Linux-based operating system, and it's not one.
was replying to guy mentioning his favorite KDE based distro
But you put it in a list of advantages PC-BSD has over a Linux-based operating system, and it's not one.
Sure, Apple might not give a backdoor to the Indian government, but chances are it (or your cell phone service provider) is giving a backdoor to the US government, pursuant to CALEA and other laws. And Skype is mandated to put in backdoors too...
It's cute that you think the US government needs handset manufacturers to include backdoors in order to wiretap. It's much easier to just control the networks. \tinfoil
In the other case, violent crimes happened where the protests were occurring, but had nothing to do with the protesters' message. It's a pretty important distinction, and one that many (biased) people like to overlook.
I didn't say that rape and murder define Occupiers (the opposite, actually), but you seem to be saying that a couple wackos with guns and inappropriate signs should define the Tea Party. Your bias is showing.
You either don't know the popular ideals of the Tea Party, or you're intentionally trying to distort them. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. I can't really call myself a Tea Partier, so I'm not that best person to educate you, but I'll just say that a bloody revolution is actually not a prominent theme among their ranks and leave it at that.
Didn't the Tea Party bring guns to some place or other? I remember hearing about that somewhere on here. Or was that a
Sure. In America, it is still legal to own guns and carry them in most public places (usually requiring a permit if the weapon is concealed). It may be important to note that of all the Tea Party rallies, no weapons were ever fired, or at least nobody was killed. Going out on a limb here, but I think terrorists usually use their guns to kill as many people as they can, so maybe the term "terrorist" is misapplied to Tea Party people. There were actually a few cases of rape and even murder among the Occupiers, but it's just as ridiculous to call them terrorists.
It's more like having freedom of speech, but anyone who feels like it can revoke it. GPL doesn't restrict freedom, it enforces freedom.
Yeah, except a company which decides to use and modify open source software without giving back does not revoke anyone else' right to the code... so, in other words, it's not like that at all.
Actually, Firefox has done a lot to improve addon compatibility. They now have a bot that checks the API calls of all addons in their repository and automatically marks those that don't use any changed API's.
A bot scanning their addon repository is their (presumably temporary) solution? How about roll back to the previous version scheme until they can actually fix their software? Any plugin system which relies on hardcoded version numbers is clearly broken.
... and ruining the UIs of their best services.
I really really really really really really want the old Google Search interface back.
I just got a fancy 8 core T7500 Dell workstation and only one of my compilers actually takes advantage of the multiple cores when it is compiling.
If your compiler isn't threaded, then at least run multiple compile jobs simultaneously--this is probably better anyway. If your build system can't do this, your tools are broken.
2011-11-10
Lake West Camp
Wind making leaves fall, sounded like rain (worrying me throughout the night).
Night started out clear, with a bright, near-full (checking the calendar now, it was full) moon directly overhead, and cold - around 37F (according to the car's thermometer).
In the morning (7:20 am) the car thermometer read 49F. Clouds were rolling in.
MacOS X is a skyscraper in the same way a house is a skyscraper.
Perhaps you haven't had your coffee yet.
And leads to extremely bad code. Goto has the same thing - it can be extremely powerful, but overusing it leads to really bad code.
It's not so much about overuse. Rather, it's the misuse of macros and gotos (and any other coding construct) that can lead to bad code. Macros and gotos get a bad rap because they get misused more often than other constructs, mostly by those who are really new to programming. When used appropriately, these constructs can make code more readable and easier to maintain. It's too bad that so many students are being taught to avoid gotos at all cost; better to teach them when gotos can be used to good effect.
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