No, once they are over 30 something clicks and they become more interested in preserving their own wealth than in idealism, so they become conservatives.
Perhaps you misunderstand the word "conservative". I, for instance, am over 50 and regard myself as a conservative economically but socially a liberal (European meaning, roughly libertarian in US meaning). I also am the sole inventor or co-inventor of 15 granted US patents, which provide me with an income of sorts, with a few applications still pending. I am very much in favour of drastic reform of the laws on intellectual property, but not in the direction which would benefit my narrowly-defined interest - there is no reason to extend patent validity, and there are good reasons to make the patenting process more rigorous and somewhat narrower. There are a far greater number of reasons for chopping back the absurd longevity of copyright, preferably to a span similar to that of patents. There are also good reasons to impose conditions on copyright leading possibly to early expiry, as happens with patents (e.g. copyright material which is not readily available commercially for some period should become freely copyable).
We should definitely show them that we are rational, well behaved lifeforms, with broad interests and predictable interaction
In that case we would kill the aliens immediately, and hunker down in silent mode while reverse-engineering their transport, weapons, communications, etc. To do anything else would be irrational and irresponsible. We really don't want to be in the position of "primitive" tribes encountering high tech "civilization" - we know how that works out from our own history.
AFAIK no company that was not bankrupt got away with just cshutting down the servers.
Did Adobe Systems go bankrupt, then?
Adobe started its own ebook shop to promote PDF as a format for ebooks. I was one of those who got suckered in, and bought one PDF ebook from them. It could be read only with Adobe Reader on Windows and had to be incorporated into the "bookshelf". It turned out to be so riddled with restrictions (print at most 10 pages per 30 days, etc.) that I did not buy any others. Remote authorization from an Adobe server was needed to transfer the reading rights to another PC, or even to an updated version of the reader. About a year later, Adobe announced that it had achieved itrs promotional aims and was shutting down its ebook shop and authorization servers, and that all ebooks would be frozen.
They did provide a sort of solution for continued access: you had to make an archive of your Adobe Reader 5 software and bookshelf using a special tool. The process was destructive - it would delete the original files with the authorization codes while making the archive. This archive could then be restored onto another PC (destroying the archive). You were to be stuck with Adobe Reader 5 forever, with no hope of access if you changed to Mac or Linux.
My only option was to find and acquire a cracked version of the ebook I had bought, in order to read it once I left the Windows world completely.
I'm not sure why one would want to write scripts just to create plots.
One good reason is to make graphs of a consistent style (same fonts, sizes, axis types, etc.) which can then be generated from different data sets. Publications look crappy when plots of equivalent data are inconsistently presented.
Scripting is how I produce graphs in gnuplot (and Matlab). Modifying the analysis or changing the datasets then re-running the scripts gives comparable plots.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to hire competent people in your school district that know how to put the child on the right bus.
In a word: NO.
Exactly - you must fix the staff the school already has, since even the most incompetent or negligent can't be fired.
The most effective approach is a bit old-fashioned. Let it be known that Guido and Luigi might visit the next time a child is misplaced. They have a baseball bat, and are keen to give "sports lessons" to any teachers in need of training.
Your situation is different. Possibly greatly different, depending on the degree of disability. Your child, when he/she grows up, may still need assistance with life's regular challenges.
Our children live in a world still devoid of danger and threat. They expect us, their elders to protect them from harm.
Indeed, we do shield them from the dangers and threats of the world, to the extent that we can.
But when they grow up, will they have learned to protect the next generation, if we have prevented them learning how to protect themselves? They need lessons in common sense responses to unexpected situations, as much as protection from the nastiness of the world. Such lessons should lead progressively to self-reliance, as the child grows up. As they say: "you can't child-proof the world, but you might world-proof the child". We look out for our children, as much as we reasonably can, but we try to mentally equip them to look out for themselves also, because we can't always be at hand.
I really liked Alta Vista also - when it supported boolean queries with the NEAR keyword. I really miss that NEAR keyword, it could transform a search so easily into something worthwhile. When Alta Vista morphed into a yet another Google-style search, I moved to Google.
You reported the problem with FireFox 3.0.10 on Windows XP, but it looks like a/. issue, rather than a browser issue.
The same behaviour is seen using Chromium 3.0.183.0, Epiphany 2.26.1, Firefox 3.0.10, Galeon 2.0.6, and Opera 9.64 (all running on Ubuntu 9.04). Comment titles are white when logged-in, but appear normal when not logged-in.
They made it possible for us to travel in all but the worst weather, they don't leave piles of shit behind them to feed flies, and they're far less labor-intensive to operate. Horses have a certain nostalgic appeal, but we're a lot better off with them relegated to a hobby.
Actually, horses have done well out of it, too. There are fewer draught horses in the USA & Europe nowadays, but almost as many riding horses as there were at the start of the 20th century. They are mostly pampered sports pets rather than military mounts. It takes a lot of effort to properly care for a horse, and many were overworked and/or subjected to poor treatment when they were "work" rather than "play". I speak as owner of a cosseted 600kg hunter.
go to a country back east where ALL the banks got suckered into using ActiveX for their online transactions
Care to name & shame the idiot banks?
FWIW, my bank's online transactions work with Epiphany, Firefox, Galeon, and Opera, and appear to have reasonable security (https, non-obvious username, password, single-use challenge). These are all on Linux, so no ActiveX is in use. I have not yet tried Chromium for banking, because it's still alpha. I cannot try IE at all, because I don't have any Windows boxes.
For the record, my 6 year old laptop runs the latest version of W7 just fine. I doubt I'll put it on my desktop any time soon
For the record, my 6-year-old laptop runs Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) just fine. It has been running Ubuntu since 4.10 (Warty Warthog). Oh, we unhesitatingly updated both of our desktops also to the latest Ubuntu release. One of the desktops is a 6-year-old Dell, the other was obtained from the local shop a few months ago - we traded the Vista preload for an extra 1TB disk when buying.
Microsoft tax = 7200rpm 1TB disk (Western Digital)
Actually, I used AutoCAD on a 386 in the early 1990s. It ran snappily enough on SCO unix with a few MB of RAM (that was in the before time, before the hideous emergence of tSCOg).
Gnome certainly has a HIG - http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable, and Gnome is built using GTK+. In fact, both the Gnome HIG and the GTK+ toolkit are subprojects of the Gnome project.
I guess the guy that used to be the lead developer of Firefox may know better than you and me.
Perhaps the problem is that the lead developer of Firefox ignored that HIG in making Firefox. From Wikipedia: "Mozilla Firefox's user interface, for example, goes against the GNOME project's HIG, which is one of the main arguments for including Epiphany instead of Firefox in the GNOME distribution." No doubt there were reasons for the choice taken in Firefox development, but the consequences include a lot of bloat and reinvented square wheels.
I'm having difficulty seeing a whole lot of functional difference between this and Facebook
Well, it's just vapour at the moment, so all we have to go on is the Google blurb and their marketing demos. From these, there appear to be significant functional differences with respect to Facebook/MySpace. Quoting from TFA: "One principle behind the project is that Wave has to be an open network, with anyone having the ability to become a wave operator and interoperate with the public network."
So instead of material being hosted by Google or some other central respository (like Facebook etc.), you can host it yourself, if you wish. Google does not store the data or expose itself to consequences of such storage. Quoting again: "Wave will run on a distributed network model, with traffic routed peer-to-peer."
So even the packets will bypass Google. The bandwidth is provided by users, not by Google - another difference from Facebook, which must provide its own bandwidth. No doubt, there will be opportunities for Google to monetize this user-provided content and user-provided bandwidth, perhaps by allowing embedded ads or implicit indexing or whatnot.
Something like this may change the ludicrous situation in the US regarding puny throughput limits on so-called broadband connections, also (FWIW I have 100/10 Mbps fiber with no caps or throttling, and live in rural Finland). Perhaps the ISPs will give reasonable limits, or perhaps a new set of ISPs will emerge, or perhaps it's all a plot for existing ISPs to foist obscene surcharges on users...
and how many apps and games out there that use even 2 cores ?
There are some that use multiple cores, others will just max out a single core.
For instance ImageMagick's convert utility uses all 4 cores on my Linux box when I run it, even when processing a single image. Similarly, Bibble 5 Pro uses all 4 cores when I throw a batch of raw images at it. Bibble Labs did a benchmark with 16 cores (http://bibblelabs.com/products/bibble5/videos.html?vid=3), and claimed near-linear performance scaling when processing a batch of images.
I get the feeling this could blur quite a few distinctions regarding protocol-based traffic monitoring (shaping, legal persecution, etc.). What if some dastardly person occasionally put a video stream or audio stream into the workspace, for instance...
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I think an associate's degree at age 11 is just about the right time for something horrible to happen that will corrupt him into turning evil.
He will discover girls.
He sounds like a nerd in the making.
He will discover his hand (and then porn).
No, once they are over 30 something clicks and they become more interested in preserving their own wealth than in idealism, so they become conservatives.
Perhaps you misunderstand the word "conservative". I, for instance, am over 50 and regard myself as a conservative economically but socially a liberal (European meaning, roughly libertarian in US meaning). I also am the sole inventor or co-inventor of 15 granted US patents, which provide me with an income of sorts, with a few applications still pending. I am very much in favour of drastic reform of the laws on intellectual property, but not in the direction which would benefit my narrowly-defined interest - there is no reason to extend patent validity, and there are good reasons to make the patenting process more rigorous and somewhat narrower. There are a far greater number of reasons for chopping back the absurd longevity of copyright, preferably to a span similar to that of patents. There are also good reasons to impose conditions on copyright leading possibly to early expiry, as happens with patents (e.g. copyright material which is not readily available commercially for some period should become freely copyable).
So enter a filing to change his name to "Transgender-Refused" instead of "Pirate". It might make your point public, and annoy the lawyer yet again.
18-30 year-olds? So in the next EP election, the PP will be the favoured party of 18-35 year-olds. That should give more than just one or two seats.
We should definitely show them that we are rational, well behaved lifeforms, with broad interests and predictable interaction
In that case we would kill the aliens immediately, and hunker down in silent mode while reverse-engineering their transport, weapons, communications, etc. To do anything else would be irrational and irresponsible. We really don't want to be in the position of "primitive" tribes encountering high tech "civilization" - we know how that works out from our own history.
Fletcher: Your honor, I object!
Judge: Why?
Fletcher: Because it's devastating to my case!
Judge: Overruled.
Fletcher: Good call!
AFAIK no company that was not bankrupt got away with just cshutting down the servers.
Did Adobe Systems go bankrupt, then?
Adobe started its own ebook shop to promote PDF as a format for ebooks. I was one of those who got suckered in, and bought one PDF ebook from them. It could be read only with Adobe Reader on Windows and had to be incorporated into the "bookshelf". It turned out to be so riddled with restrictions (print at most 10 pages per 30 days, etc.) that I did not buy any others. Remote authorization from an Adobe server was needed to transfer the reading rights to another PC, or even to an updated version of the reader. About a year later, Adobe announced that it had achieved itrs promotional aims and was shutting down its ebook shop and authorization servers, and that all ebooks would be frozen.
They did provide a sort of solution for continued access: you had to make an archive of your Adobe Reader 5 software and bookshelf using a special tool. The process was destructive - it would delete the original files with the authorization codes while making the archive. This archive could then be restored onto another PC (destroying the archive). You were to be stuck with Adobe Reader 5 forever, with no hope of access if you changed to Mac or Linux.
My only option was to find and acquire a cracked version of the ebook I had bought, in order to read it once I left the Windows world completely.
I'm not sure why one would want to write scripts just to create plots.
One good reason is to make graphs of a consistent style (same fonts, sizes, axis types, etc.) which can then be generated from different data sets. Publications look crappy when plots of equivalent data are inconsistently presented.
Scripting is how I produce graphs in gnuplot (and Matlab). Modifying the analysis or changing the datasets then re-running the scripts gives comparable plots.
I'm not familiar with "pc keyboards back-to-back" as a system of measurement
About 14 of these would make a kilderkin. About 200000 of them would make an acre-foot.
Everything clear now?
Wouldn't it be more efficient to hire competent people in your school district that know how to put the child on the right bus.
In a word: NO.
Exactly - you must fix the staff the school already has, since even the most incompetent or negligent can't be fired.
The most effective approach is a bit old-fashioned. Let it be known that Guido and Luigi might visit the next time a child is misplaced. They have a baseball bat, and are keen to give "sports lessons" to any teachers in need of training.
As a parent with a mentally disabled child
Your situation is different. Possibly greatly different, depending on the degree of disability. Your child, when he/she grows up, may still need assistance with life's regular challenges.
Our children live in a world still devoid of danger and threat. They expect us, their elders to protect them from harm.
Indeed, we do shield them from the dangers and threats of the world, to the extent that we can.
But when they grow up, will they have learned to protect the next generation, if we have prevented them learning how to protect themselves? They need lessons in common sense responses to unexpected situations, as much as protection from the nastiness of the world. Such lessons should lead progressively to self-reliance, as the child grows up. As they say: "you can't child-proof the world, but you might world-proof the child". We look out for our children, as much as we reasonably can, but we try to mentally equip them to look out for themselves also, because we can't always be at hand.
Altavista was always good enough for me
I really liked Alta Vista also - when it supported boolean queries with the NEAR keyword. I really miss that NEAR keyword, it could transform a search so easily into something worthwhile. When Alta Vista morphed into a yet another Google-style search, I moved to Google.
You reported the problem with FireFox 3.0.10 on Windows XP, but it looks like a /. issue, rather than a browser issue.
The same behaviour is seen using Chromium 3.0.183.0, Epiphany 2.26.1, Firefox 3.0.10, Galeon 2.0.6, and Opera 9.64 (all running on Ubuntu 9.04). Comment titles are white when logged-in, but appear normal when not logged-in.
They made it possible for us to travel in all but the worst weather, they don't leave piles of shit behind them to feed flies, and they're far less labor-intensive to operate. Horses have a certain nostalgic appeal, but we're a lot better off with them relegated to a hobby.
Actually, horses have done well out of it, too. There are fewer draught horses in the USA & Europe nowadays, but almost as many riding horses as there were at the start of the 20th century. They are mostly pampered sports pets rather than military mounts. It takes a lot of effort to properly care for a horse, and many were overworked and/or subjected to poor treatment when they were "work" rather than "play". I speak as owner of a cosseted 600kg hunter.
It would have been right in the corner for conciseness. One-line programs are fairly standard, but can accomplish quite a lot.
go to a country back east where ALL the banks got suckered into using ActiveX for their online transactions
Care to name & shame the idiot banks?
FWIW, my bank's online transactions work with Epiphany, Firefox, Galeon, and Opera, and appear to have reasonable security (https, non-obvious username, password, single-use challenge). These are all on Linux, so no ActiveX is in use. I have not yet tried Chromium for banking, because it's still alpha. I cannot try IE at all, because I don't have any Windows boxes.
For the record, my 6 year old laptop runs the latest version of W7 just fine. I doubt I'll put it on my desktop any time soon
For the record, my 6-year-old laptop runs Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) just fine. It has been running Ubuntu since 4.10 (Warty Warthog). Oh, we unhesitatingly updated both of our desktops also to the latest Ubuntu release. One of the desktops is a 6-year-old Dell, the other was obtained from the local shop a few months ago - we traded the Vista preload for an extra 1TB disk when buying.
Microsoft tax = 7200rpm 1TB disk (Western Digital)
even using AutoCAD on a Pentium II
Actually, I used AutoCAD on a 386 in the early 1990s. It ran snappily enough on SCO unix with a few MB of RAM (that was in the before time, before the hideous emergence of tSCOg).
I guess the guy that used to be the lead developer of Firefox may know better than you and me.
Perhaps the problem is that the lead developer of Firefox ignored that HIG in making Firefox. From Wikipedia: "Mozilla Firefox's user interface, for example, goes against the GNOME project's HIG, which is one of the main arguments for including Epiphany instead of Firefox in the GNOME distribution." No doubt there were reasons for the choice taken in Firefox development, but the consequences include a lot of bloat and reinvented square wheels.
I'm having difficulty seeing a whole lot of functional difference between this and Facebook
Well, it's just vapour at the moment, so all we have to go on is the Google blurb and their marketing demos. From these, there appear to be significant functional differences with respect to Facebook/MySpace. Quoting from TFA:
"One principle behind the project is that Wave has to be an open network, with anyone having the ability to become a wave operator and interoperate with the public network."
So instead of material being hosted by Google or some other central respository (like Facebook etc.), you can host it yourself, if you wish. Google does not store the data or expose itself to consequences of such storage. Quoting again:
"Wave will run on a distributed network model, with traffic routed peer-to-peer."
So even the packets will bypass Google. The bandwidth is provided by users, not by Google - another difference from Facebook, which must provide its own bandwidth. No doubt, there will be opportunities for Google to monetize this user-provided content and user-provided bandwidth, perhaps by allowing embedded ads or implicit indexing or whatnot.
Something like this may change the ludicrous situation in the US regarding puny throughput limits on so-called broadband connections, also (FWIW I have 100/10 Mbps fiber with no caps or throttling, and live in rural Finland). Perhaps the ISPs will give reasonable limits, or perhaps a new set of ISPs will emerge, or perhaps it's all a plot for existing ISPs to foist obscene surcharges on users...
and how many apps and games out there that use even 2 cores ?
There are some that use multiple cores, others will just max out a single core.
For instance ImageMagick's convert utility uses all 4 cores on my Linux box when I run it, even when processing a single image. Similarly, Bibble 5 Pro uses all 4 cores when I throw a batch of raw images at it. Bibble Labs did a benchmark with 16 cores (http://bibblelabs.com/products/bibble5/videos.html?vid=3), and claimed near-linear performance scaling when processing a batch of images.
average web page, which is most likely to be a blog or a video of two girls dressed as robots shoving bananas into each-other's ears (while naked
Can you give us a link to an average web page like this?
Or several.
I get the feeling this could blur quite a few distinctions regarding protocol-based traffic monitoring (shaping, legal persecution, etc.). What if some dastardly person occasionally put a video stream or audio stream into the workspace, for instance...
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http://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2000/12/age-umpires-ii
APL is the IDE, editor, debugger, interpreter, compiler, help center, etc. It is the one true IDE which I have used for more than 35 years.
Singing:
"Rho rho rho of X
always equals one.
Rho is dimension,
rho rho rank,
APL is fun!.