Comment Re:This is a shining example (Score 1) 327
I am not in favor of hiding government largess by contracting it out. At that point, the "private" enterprise is merely an unofficial extension of government, isn't it?
I am not in favor of hiding government largess by contracting it out. At that point, the "private" enterprise is merely an unofficial extension of government, isn't it?
At least we can unelect them, if stirred enough to do so. Eric Cantor illustrates that point.
Umm, or you could have accepted and still spent your time surfing Slashdot.
They assume that small government would be staffed with highly qualified and highly motivated people
By no means! A small government will attract the same sorts of people; the difference is the evildoers can't hide in the massive, inscrutable cogs of the machinery. Accountability is easier when there are fewer places to pass the buck.
Or at the very least pared back to their original usage.
of why small-government types are not completely out of their fucking gourd.
This is probably subjective; I found the barrier of entry for Qt pretty significant, while mastering
If they've done a lot of work already on a custom kernel, it may not make sense to try porting all that work to completely different kernel architecture. They may have done a cost benefit analysis and decided that the cost of improving their current architecture is less than retrofitting FreeBSD. Not saying this is the case, just posing a possible scenario where this would be the better option.
I think I heard something like this 15 years ago when I first started using KDE. That's a pretty slow death, don't you think?
Hi! Welcome to Slashdot!
I feel like there's a Billy Joel song here...
So, non-free dependencies? Not on my watch!
The sad thing is that Hayden Christensen was actually an upgrade.
On difference in 5E is the feats are sparser and bigger. Instead of a 5-level feat chain to make two-weapon fighting, you spend one of your rare feats to get the whole kit n' kaboodle. Feats are less incremental improvements, and more paradigm shifting.
4E was not a video game, or even remotely like one. The interrupt and reaction stack cannot be modeled in a modern CRPG.
No, 4E was a CCG. Dungeons & Dragons: The Gathering.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
