Posts by foo_bar_baz

@Chemist

He has provoked people to respond to his original off topic post, just as he intended. Also known as a successful troll.

Re: Potential lawsuit?

All of that also applies to the built in Photobooth app, you bollard. Any 4 year old is capable of using it, and has no rating.

- take pictures of self

- upload, hosted on a server (could even be an Apple hosted mac.com account)

- distribute to recipient (build in email app)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_harbor_%28law%29

Re: Big Fail Down Under

I just tried it and it worked just fine. The route was produced instantly. 8.47 hours, 861km by car

Perhaps you had the "by foot" icon selected.

Re: more buy in

"My hardware" probably entails things such as drivers for a specific NIC and VGA card, not just the CPU architecture.

But thanks for the history lesson, you really showed him, you refined chap.

Re: Oh boy. He even rants about ranting.

Precisely, except he does not. How do his answers to a bunch of students qualify as a rant?

Speaking of grown up, is that what your factually inaccurate anonymous forum post is?

Heresy!

Next thing you'll be saying my monitor is not the computer!

I wish my mind was healthy like yours. You must have somehow avoided the fluoride and mind control rays unlike the rest of us.

Please point to me who are the beneficiaries driving this cycle of yours. I want to see the guy gleefully rubbing his hands together as he pits the slave religions against each other, thanking his forefathers for setting up this lucrative scheme. Or maybe the guy who set it all up is still around. OMG! Jesus was a vampire!

Re: Bondnote 3

Waltham PPK. Lost for words.

@Joerg

How do you explain Monty Widenius' decision to distribute MySQL under the GPL in the first place, if there is no such thing as open source and community?

"The Open Source community is a very effective ecosystem and if you allow it to participate with your business you have a better chance to succeed."

http://monty-says.blogspot.fi/2009/08/thoughts-about-dual-licensing-open.html

An open source project has a community of developers. They might be paid to do the development, but it's still open source and it's still a community.

Re: Friday

Except it's Tuesday. I think I just need my meds.

No-one is listening to obvious MS troll

First paragraph from your lined article:

"iPhone 5 sales topped five million over the first weekend, beating the previous record set by the iPhone 4S, but still falling short of estimates."

So they beat sales records and that's a sign of "cracks starting to show". Many competitors would be happy to miss those kinds of inflated estimates.

Re: "The eel was about the size of a decent sprig of asparagus"

Sounds to me like the Asparagus is a standard measurement for doctors extracting foreign objects from human orifices. Probably along with the Banana, Gerbil and Cucumber.

"Say Pete, could you give me hand with a 2.5 Asparagus patient?" Cue smirks from medical employees and puzzled looks from nearby civvies.

To upvote or downvote?

You give an example of cherry picking evidence when trying to prove a point. I was curious, so I went and looked up those passages. The intent of your quoted sentences seems clear ("pray standing in synagogues ... to be seen by men"), and even clearer when you read them in context. Matthew 6 starts with:

"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them."

I.e. you should not practice your religion with the intent of looking good to others. It's NOT saying you are not allowed to pray in a church, it simply mentions praying *standing* in a synagogue (a place of prayer after all) as an example. Presumably the norm at the time of writing was to pray sitting or kneeling. In today's context everyone saying the lord's prayer together is hardly an attempt to look holier than the next person.

So a good example of cherry picking. Then you actually seem to believe your example yourself, and think you've somehow outsmarted a dumb religious fool. D'oh.

Re: "Burglarized"

I love that word, it conjures such vivid imagery. Yes it's comical, almost Dickensian. A plodding plumber plumbs, a bumbling burglar burgles. The master cat thieves - pinkpantherish tiptoe gait, darting eyes, glinting grin - those that practice the art of burglary. They burglarize. Yes they do.

Re: @Daniel

> And there you go showing your bias and ignorance.

I'm biased because I've run into the same issue repeatedly in a short period of time. Application A is dog slow, vendor documentation says "don't run in a VM, it cannot perform well". Try out application B, it won't even run properly in the VM. Evaluate application C, requirements say 4-12G RAM needed. Competing application C2 runs on hundreds of megabytes of RAM. I guess seeing a pattern emerge makes me ignorant.

I've seen Java apps that run well, I've worked on developing "enterprisey" products that had a Java core. As an administrator I just find that deploying and maintaining Java apps is a pain in comparison. Yes it's my job and it's what I have to do, but the complaints are still valid. I'd complain if I had to work with Windows 3.11.

BTW, Python 2.x is always backward compatible - unlike Java judging from the comment above. You can install Python 2.7 and apps written for 2.2 will run perfectly well. Virtualenv is handy for developers but I wouldn't use it in production. You can easily have multiple Python installs in parallel, eg. Python 2.6 in addition to the default 2.4.

Re: What exactly is the definition of "cheating", anyway?

Put yourself in the game company's shoes for a moment. How would you run it?

1) magically produce perfect, bug free code

2) run the company at a loss, spending all your cash on testing and not releasing any updates

3) let exploiters ruin the game dynamics by introducing megabazillion $currency into the game economy

Ofcourse it comes down to real world money. If you let a minority ruin the game for everyone else, customers leave and you don't get a return on your investment.

Re: Yes.. and no... but YES!

Agreed.

I found myself muting screaming/singing/mouthbreathing players a lot. Done by holding ALT and using cursor keys to select a player, then hitting Del.

"Here" vs. "normal life"

AC is a total fuckwad

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

Next time someone pretending to be you creates a pedo site, you'll "just leave", right?

Re: All this and the Open Source community...

You're years behind, brother. You're fundamentally right. Relying on a single upstream developer is risky, but right there's the opportunity to provide related services. This is where the money comes into play in open source: installing, maintaining, adapting, hosting, supporting etc. I've been making my living from open source for almost ten years, and my current employer is raking it in thanks to Stallman et al. Understanding licensing and living by it is very important, but due diligence is a small cost compared to the options of a) buying or b) writing the software yourself. Making cash from open source doesn't make you a leech. Just play nice, which some guys apparently did not do with Mayan.

If you don't trust in open source, I suggest you start by withdrawing your money from your bank. Next you may as well stop investing altogether, since the stock exchange is running on open source too.