ok, counterpoint: suppose there were significantly less tv or whatever advertising for music? basically, suppose the big record labels didn't exist and therefore all musicians did their advertising via word of mouth. in any case, anyone who seeks music events/concerts/whatever, will be drawn to the concerts/merchandise/whatever of bands that have music they like and are advertised heavily; decrease the advertising in general, and the concert-goers will be drawn more by music they'd like than music that's being marketed.
so, other posters have mentioned i think some people who have some following via the web, but the record companies don't serve any great necessity to society, i think.
count of monte cristo. if they could put it in space and make an anime, we could make a 3d rendered version:)
it's not something that would require any trippy visuals, and has a strong story already. they can focus on details, as mentioned in other posts, to convey emotions to the viewer.
as far as i know (ie, just from reading stuffs online), that's prety much how it started here (in the us) too. the uspto was at first only occasionally awarding software patents, but eventually they were doing it in general. in the common law system, legality is determined more by the culture and experiences of judges, especially when laws are vague.
You don't have a right to violate their copyright protections that is quite uncertain. i can think of several people (including some swedes everyone's heard of) who would disagree with this--and from your id number, i'm guessing you've been on/. long enough to hear most arguments regarding this.
unfortunately in a democracy (or democratic republic, or whatever you want to call it), a minority can be controlled by a (often misinformed and/or ignorant) majority. so the majority of the public will get the government they deserve, but what about the other folks? if the minority doesn't like the result of an election, they have to hope next election will turn out better or protest or just leave.
the first link you have mentions that the ooxml math is supposed to do almost (not exactly, but close) the same thing as mathml, so mentions that people are wondering why there even has to exist ooxml if mathml works fine.
the second's comments seem to imply that the mathml conversion doesn't work right... and i guess mathml isn't perfect either (perhaps it's my own ineptitude but i haven't succeeded in making properly heighted bra-ket's (like, when i have a bra and a ket together, the angle brackets on either side should be the same height as the middle line, adjusting to height of the elements inside, which can be done in latex with \middle for the middle pipe) ), and it's pretty verbose (though this could be simply a property of xml for math in general, myself being more used to latex.
ip packets have to display who they're going to, so no, this wouldn't work when routers can collude (ie, whenever you use the internet). to get anonymity you'd have to use an overlay network; this is why there exist things like tor and freenet. actually there was some suspected collusion on tor a while ago too. scary stuff.
what should one do to make a really really secure operating system, both from user-to-user security and security on the network? you've mentioned creating proofs for the code, for example.
perhaps shows should be rated on various criteria: 24 could get a 8/10 for violence and a 3/10 for sex|nudity and a something/10 for bad words (i don't know i haven't seen 24) but anyway, this would let the people who use v-chips to decide more accurately. there's a lot of discrepancy between how the ratings system deals with violence vs nudity, where you are allowed to kill people but can't make love;) a 9 or 10 on the scale would require some increadibly gruesome violence (ripping heads off etc) and really weird sex (...scat?) and if i had kids i don't know if i'd want them watching those, but it would be most important to be able to control the scores according to one's own opinion. also, having the chip check online with more than one rating source might be good, so someone could set it to connect to some online group with similar views on things.
ok, i use firefox cuz 1) i'm on linux and 2) i love the plugins that are available (noscript, adblock, etc)
anyway, this is a question out of curiosity, is there a no-script kind of thing in ie? i mean, selective disabling of javascript. i'm guessing that aside from ideological issues with ie a lot of the stuff on/. about it are that we just don't know much about being a power-user in it.
anyway, for anyone who wants to write a browser, it seems like an incredibly complicated thing to do, what with trying to maintain compatibility and all. personally, i think it would have been nice if a browser was expected to work like a compiler does; checking input for correctness and rejecting it outright if it doesn't 'compile'. with all the corner cases that a browser must accept due to different browsers' inaccuracies, and javascript/flash/whatever on top of that i'm not really surprised that there can be bugs.
on a side note, if we could purge the web of javascript (and replaced parts of it with xml-stuffs or css or something else), well, maybe we'd all be better off.
i definitely agree; there's so much complexity to securing a browser regarding javascript (since the javascript concept is essentially innately insecure), i definitely feel that moving to a static-er web would make sense. additionally, without having to develop things with javascript, developers could put more effort towards more useful things, or experimenting with newish interesting stuff like xhtml (and xlink's embed feature, so we can have the 'slashdot new discussion system' types of things without javascript, maybe)
ok, i'm not a web developer so i wouldn't know, but is there any way to force your advertisers (malicious or otherwise) to not use javascript/flash/whatever? since it's essentially running code we don't trust on the client's computer...
essentially, do the noscript thing on your own servers, or host ads (i assume they're mostly just pictures with links) on your own servers somehow.
computer literacy aside, i've noticed that a ton of math and science academics know how to use latex really nicely, even if they don't know much about computers. it makes sense if you're doing a lot of equations/formulas and they need to be legible.
Set a monetary limit (including the value of any indirect bribes given to them) per person. Make it a felony to try to bribe politicians above this limit or for colluding with others to influence them. aside from the 'colluding with others', that's how it is. large organizations/companies/whatever get their members and/or employees to donate, and give their people bonuses for cooperating. so, 4k each from a thousand employees can make a big difference. the corporation itself donates too, but it's relatively insignificant as demonstrated here. i don't know personally if the riaa member companies (sony etc, you know, the real evil folk, riaa is just a front for us to get angry at) use this tactic, but i wouldn't be surprised if they did.
i'd argue that the corporation's employees would be able to do whatever it is ordinary citizens are able to do, but the government should not be allowed to hire them for unconstitutional purposes. if we allow the government to get away with hiring non-government folk to do unconstitutional things, then the government can do more than it should.
i think the point here though was that it might not have been purely genetic but also affected by hormones in the woumb--as in, the various studies on finger length might actually bring in some new insight on us (though particular one certainly isn't the first finger length study).
i'm not old (20), but i can definitely empathize with that. ide's and such take up so much screenspace and have so many hoops to jump through to do something (like add a library... when i first started programming in msvs, it took me a while to realize how to link with a library. with gcc it's usually just -lwhatever. i know there's an underlying command line comiler in visual studio, but you don't get direct control over that with the gui afaik). nowadays, i think it's both simpler and more effective to just use terminals and text editors.
Slashdot Mirror
ok, counterpoint: suppose there were significantly less tv or whatever advertising for music? basically, suppose the big record labels didn't exist and therefore all musicians did their advertising via word of mouth. in any case, anyone who seeks music events/concerts/whatever, will be drawn to the concerts/merchandise/whatever of bands that have music they like and are advertised heavily; decrease the advertising in general, and the concert-goers will be drawn more by music they'd like than music that's being marketed.
so, other posters have mentioned i think some people who have some following via the web, but the record companies don't serve any great necessity to society, i think.
count of monte cristo. if they could put it in space and make an anime, we could make a 3d rendered version :)
it's not something that would require any trippy visuals, and has a strong story already. they can focus on details, as mentioned in other posts, to convey emotions to the viewer.
well, that'd be my suggestion.
truly heroic, like this:
http://xkcd.com/c208.html
as far as i know (ie, just from reading stuffs online), that's prety much how it started here (in the us) too. the uspto was at first only occasionally awarding software patents, but eventually they were doing it in general. in the common law system, legality is determined more by the culture and experiences of judges, especially when laws are vague.
unfortunately in a democracy (or democratic republic, or whatever you want to call it), a minority can be controlled by a (often misinformed and/or ignorant) majority. so the majority of the public will get the government they deserve, but what about the other folks? if the minority doesn't like the result of an election, they have to hope next election will turn out better or protest or just leave.
i don't know about dvd's, but mplayer's been great for speed up/down for me.
did your friend work on this? :)
q uadron-shot-down-by-the-international-date-line/in dex.php
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2007/03/f22-s
if we are to keep with unix tradition, constants must have unnecessarily truncated names.
therefore i propose that it should be E_NO_RECURS
we could always try this: :)
http://www.vhemt.org/
the first link you have mentions that the ooxml math is supposed to do almost (not exactly, but close) the same thing as mathml, so mentions that people are wondering why there even has to exist ooxml if mathml works fine.
the second's comments seem to imply that the mathml conversion doesn't work right... and i guess mathml isn't perfect either (perhaps it's my own ineptitude but i haven't succeeded in making properly heighted bra-ket's (like, when i have a bra and a ket together, the angle brackets on either side should be the same height as the middle line, adjusting to height of the elements inside, which can be done in latex with \middle for the middle pipe) ), and it's pretty verbose (though this could be simply a property of xml for math in general, myself being more used to latex.
ip packets have to display who they're going to, so no, this wouldn't work when routers can collude (ie, whenever you use the internet). to get anonymity you'd have to use an overlay network; this is why there exist things like tor and freenet. actually there was some suspected collusion on tor a while ago too. scary stuff.
http://jadeserpent.i2p.tin0.de/tor-dc-nodes-2.txt
what should one do to make a really really secure operating system, both from user-to-user security and security on the network? you've mentioned creating proofs for the code, for example.
perhaps shows should be rated on various criteria: ;)
24 could get a 8/10 for violence and a 3/10 for sex|nudity and a something/10 for bad words
(i don't know i haven't seen 24)
but anyway, this would let the people who use v-chips to decide more accurately. there's a lot of discrepancy between how the ratings system deals with violence vs nudity, where you are allowed to kill people but can't make love
a 9 or 10 on the scale would require some increadibly gruesome violence (ripping heads off etc) and really weird sex (...scat?) and if i had kids i don't know if i'd want them watching those, but it would be most important to be able to control the scores according to one's own opinion.
also, having the chip check online with more than one rating source might be good, so someone could set it to connect to some online group with similar views on things.
ok, i use firefox cuz 1) i'm on linux and 2) i love the plugins that are available (noscript, adblock, etc)
/. about it are that we just don't know much about being a power-user in it.
anyway, this is a question out of curiosity, is there a no-script kind of thing in ie? i mean, selective disabling of javascript. i'm guessing that aside from ideological issues with ie a lot of the stuff on
anyway, for anyone who wants to write a browser, it seems like an incredibly complicated thing to do, what with trying to maintain compatibility and all. personally, i think it would have been nice if a browser was expected to work like a compiler does; checking input for correctness and rejecting it outright if it doesn't 'compile'. with all the corner cases that a browser must accept due to different browsers' inaccuracies, and javascript/flash/whatever on top of that i'm not really surprised that there can be bugs.
on a side note, if we could purge the web of javascript (and replaced parts of it with xml-stuffs or css or something else), well, maybe we'd all be better off.
i definitely agree; there's so much complexity to securing a browser regarding javascript (since the javascript concept is essentially innately insecure), i definitely feel that moving to a static-er web would make sense. additionally, without having to develop things with javascript, developers could put more effort towards more useful things, or experimenting with newish interesting stuff like xhtml (and xlink's embed feature, so we can have the 'slashdot new discussion system' types of things without javascript, maybe)
ok, i'm not a web developer so i wouldn't know, but is there any way to force your advertisers (malicious or otherwise) to not use javascript/flash/whatever? since it's essentially running code we don't trust on the client's computer...
essentially, do the noscript thing on your own servers, or host ads (i assume they're mostly just pictures with links) on your own servers somehow.
i'm a whirlpool fan myself; anyway, he's probably just using md5 out of, well, tradition--he could be used to it; and tcp uses crc anyway.
computer literacy aside, i've noticed that a ton of math and science academics know how to use latex really nicely, even if they don't know much about computers. it makes sense if you're doing a lot of equations/formulas and they need to be legible.
fsck efficiency! the real solution is a dyson sphere :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_Sphere
i'd argue that the corporation's employees would be able to do whatever it is ordinary citizens are able to do, but the government should not be allowed to hire them for unconstitutional purposes. if we allow the government to get away with hiring non-government folk to do unconstitutional things, then the government can do more than it should.
i think the point here though was that it might not have been purely genetic but also affected by hormones in the woumb--as in, the various studies on finger length might actually bring in some new insight on us (though particular one certainly isn't the first finger length study).
don't forget halliburton
i'm not old (20), but i can definitely empathize with that. ide's and such take up so much screenspace and have so many hoops to jump through to do something (like add a library... when i first started programming in msvs, it took me a while to realize how to link with a library. with gcc it's usually just -lwhatever. i know there's an underlying command line comiler in visual studio, but you don't get direct control over that with the gui afaik). nowadays, i think it's both simpler and more effective to just use terminals and text editors.