If you're doing web work, primarily python, Wing IDE has great VIM support. It supports custom vim configurations and all of the good stuff. It has a free version, but I threw down some cash (d to get a sweet integrated debugger and test-running capabilities. I found it superior to both Netbeans and pydev on Eclipse, but both of those also support VIM text editing (with plugins). Basically, pretty much every decent python editor I've tried has supported vim either natively or via plugins.
here are what people have found so far digging through the code.
So you're saying that there are people interested in writing code to inject in to the game somehow via telnet that are too lazy to run a decompiler themselves?
Bots were already easy enough to write for a game like this. Go try and start up a conversation with a miner in a low-population high-sec system if you doubt that.
the costs STILL get passed down to the consumer.
That's dangerous thinking right there. You mean that when the government puts high taxes on these evil, filthy corporations that sell us all our stuff, they're actually taxing us? Well that just messes with my whole world view.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/125550.html
Reason TV covered this topic nicely. Create a real, legitimate, consensual way for people to donate their organs and be compensated, and these black market deals dry up. If I give my kidney to you and get to pay off my student loans, everyone wins.
I mean, if it says "MoxFulder has responded to 100% of people who contacted him who meet his criteria", presumably MoxFulder is either (a) a slut, or (b) really desperate.
Or... (c) polite enough to turn down people with an email rather than ignoring them. Or she's smart enough to set her criteria very specifically. "Males living in the Caymans worth over $50 million that possess yacht over 100 feet long"
Besides, if your enemy expects your robots to defeat their army, what would be the point of fighting them in the first place? Attacking civilians seems a more logical step (I don't think it's reasonable to demand any country at war not to attack only military targets where there's none that can't be replaced easily).
I think we just saw the thought process that bred guerrilla warfare (or terrorism, depending on your point of view). I'll make the logical leap.
Besides, if your enemy expects your highly-trained, well-financed, well-organized US military to defeat their army, what would be the point of fighting them in the first place? Attacking civilians seems a more logical step
Guess what. We've already reached the point you fear (at least from the point of view of most of the western world and the larger military powers). Robots augment armed forces that already have overwhelming force. They're not going to be creating a military where there was none.
To use a contemporary example, Iran isn't going to pump out a bunch of robots and all of the sudden have an armed forces capable of withstanding the US's in a conventional war. As per the logical process in the quotes though, you don't necessarily have to destroy the other side's army (or robots).
Perhaps you learned something the first time you solved the problem which helps you solve the same problem quicker the second time?
That would definitely effect any re-implementation I had to do. I probably didn't make myself clear, but the efficiency was gained on 100% new code adding a new set of basically standalone features (A quizzing module added to a document control system). Of course, the efficiency gain was over my estimates, and they're subject to the accuracy of my initial estimates. I've been using the trac timing and estimation plugin to track my estimations over this project though, and they've been pretty dead-on (especially the last couple months).
When I go back and do re-implementation of features already present in PHP, I should only expect big gains coming from being able to just port code instead of design. I would really like to see more empirical evidence on the topic myself, but all I have to go on is my personal data.
I just picked up django two weeks ago and I'm loving it. I'm converting a PHP project slowly, and as an anecdote on how much more productive django is than PHP (for me):
I had some features I had estimated out in PHP (over the last 6 months my estimates have been pretty dang close), and I implemented several of them in Django/python instead. I averaged beating my PHP estimate by 1/3rd, and that's including the time I spent trying to learn how the heck to do things in Django. I can't wait to see how things look once I've got at least an intermediate understanding of my framework. I don't hate PHP, I just love python much more.
Iran and Iranians can get their computers now and always have. You might as well have American companies making the money.
AMD DID make the money. AMD sells to resellers. Those resellers sold to somebody in Iran (or somebody who sold to somebody etc). The American company got their cut.
Regarding the claim that different samples were written in different styles:
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All the examples in this chapter are written using PEAR coding standards.
So if there are samples not following the style, it's an error and no intended. I personally haven't looked through every single coding example though, so I can't make a claim other than that all the ones I've seen have followed the PEAR standard.
I have no idea if it's actually happened or not. I'd like for someone more knowledgeable on the subject to let me know why the situation I proposed doesn't happen. What's keeping lawyers from making money defending the little guy against the corporations? It seems like somebody has to be defending the RIAA guys, as we keep seeing cases on slashdot where the RIAA is having a hard time.
There's no money to be made representing defendants with little or no money who are being sued by big companies. There isn't much to be made on the defendants with no money, but it seems like there are other advantages to becoming known for defending against the big companies. This is kind of mixing hypothetical with the current, since I was specifically talking about what would happen if we had a "loser pays" system in the US, which we don't. Since we're talking about the RIAA suits though, lets use that.
1. You defend a few smalltime cases where someone is sued by the RIAA. You learn what you need to know about the specific law and you hopefully find something that works as a defense. If the loser pays, you can get paid well for your victories, if not, go to 2.
2. You win a few cases and become "the guy" for defending that kind of suit. There are bound to be people that actually have spare income who are being sued by the RIAA. You now have leverage and notoriety to get those clients.
The individual defendants don't get the benefit of the economies of scale If that's the case, then defense attorneys come along and play the other side of the economy of scale. Many lawyers/firms make their name/bucks by doing the same thing over and over again. They become a chemical-company-suing specialist, or they're a whiplash specialist or they're a specialist on suing asbestos manufacturers or... defending RIAA claims. They do the research inside and out how to do what they need for these "stamped out" cases as you called them, and use prior knowledge to bring prices down.
If big company X really is suing people at the kind of rate where lawyers give them economies of scale (I don't particularly know of this happening, but it seems possible), then the other side has the same opportunity.
Civil suits are about money. In the case of the dirt-poor civil defendant, big company X really has nothing to gain. We don't throw people in debtors prison and in all likelihood the company isn't going to see that money anyway, even if they win. All the loser pays system does is give the frivolous suit-makers (who only need to win a small percentage of their cases) a real financial deterrent to going sue-crazy without a good case. This helps both joe schmoe versus evil big company X and Company Y against dirtbag lawyer jon doe. Do you think those patent trolling companies would be able to keep their litigation up if they were shelling out google-sized legal fees every time they took a shot in the dark and lost?
People don't invest in governments. They invest in companies and people. The money is still flowing quite fine in silicone valley and nobody in China, Europe or anywhere else really wants to miss out on the "next google."
It's also important to remember that a weaker dollar does have positive implications. As china's GDP surges upwards, the cost of living and wages go up to. As the dollar gets "cheaper", companies with US-based services, production and employees are all of the sudden able to sell their wares internationally more competitively. Last month was a record month for US exports and if the dollar falls a bit more or stays steady, there will be more of the same in that regard.
As the dollar drops, all of the employees and operations in the US that weren't "cost-effective" look better and better and that helps the economy. A declining dollar is not all bad news. The sky is not falling.
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It works pretty well for me. I'm running Miro.9 on MythBuntu 7.10 and I've used it to subscribe to some tvrss feeds pretty successfully.
My only complaint is that it's pretty crummy as a bittorent client. For some reason, using utorrent on another box on the same network, I get download speeds up to 10x faster than the same torrent on the miro client. I've never seen a miro download get past 10 kb/s, while I'll get 100+ kb/s on utorrent. I really can't guess why this might be.
I haven't had any trouble with the massive CPU usage or lockups that some have reported.
The trouble is afaict only failures in places like nuke plants tend to get analised rigorously enough to diagnose this sort of thing.
You're saying that airplanes that fail in flight, pacemakers and multi-million dollar satellites don't have their failures analyzed?
You should submit a suggestion to the FAA, FDA and communications companies to do some failure analysis. I'm sure they never thought of it. You could save them millions!
a multi-million dollar settlement is relevant to modifying corporate behaviour
The settlement was ONE million dollars. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the http://investor.verizon.com/profile/overview.aspx 88.1 billion they did in revenue last year, which they'll likely surpass this year.
That's 1/88,100 of their revenue. For comparison, if you're somewhere around the GDP per capita at PPP of the US at $40k per year, that's like charging you 45cents as a fine. Yeah, that's really going to modify some behavior.
The only people that got any real benefit from this situation were lawyers. Verizon isn't going to stop cutting off accounts that don't make money for them.
The bible says "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;" Ephesians 5:18
Back in the day, before water purification techniques or even the understanding of what got a person sick and what didn't, wine was safer to drink than water. The wine they drink was also much less alcoholic than the wine we drink today. When Jesus turned water to wine as stated in the bible, think of it more like turning warm tap water to a cold soft drink or something along those lines.
And on the topic, there's a reason that movies give a basic reason for the rating. When I see an R rating for "Violence and adult language" it's different than if I see an R rating for "Nudity and extreme sexual content." The whole concept of a unified 5-slot rating system to classify offensiveness is completely intractable. The specific reasoning is much more useful to me, but nothing will ever trump parental involvement. Play Halo 3 for an hour or play GTA for an hour and you'll get a pretty decent, not complete, opinion of what the games' content is.
I remember reading Mars Direct back in Junior high in the mid 90s. http://www.marsdigest.com/MarsDirect.asp
That was a plan, using technology from 1990 to get to Mars cheaply and set up a permanent colony for $20-$30 billion (cheap). The author evidentially knows what he's talking about and we've obviously had a wee bit of technology advancement in the last 17 years, but now NASA is saying we'll be barely on the moon in 30 years? It just boggles the mind that we're moving so slowly.
Zubrin's plan in Mars Direct involved using low-tech structures and farming the natural resources already present on Mars to create a sustainable colony. He also focused on keeping the payloads cheap enough to use technology that's mass-produced for satellite launches so that costs stay down. Mars is a much better place to hang out for humans than the moon. It has soil that is favorable to some crops. It has gravity that's much stronger than that on the moon. The atmosphere is thick enough that only a slight addition in pressure would make it livable to plants (Zubrin talks about very thin plastic bubbles that could have a slight amount of air pumped in to increase the pressure to growable levels). Mars is also a base that we could use to launch mining missions to nearby asteroids.
I wish some politician would step up to the plate and really commit to getting Mars for the good of whichever country he happens to live in (and humanity for that matter).
they know something the rest of us don't. It's important to remember though, that a relatively "tiny" percentage of their GNP (1% versus the 3-4% the US spends) still puts them consistently in the top 5 on total military spending.
It's why Japan is one of the top economies right now. Stating that the small difference in relative spending on defense is the reason that Japan has been one of the 3 largest economies for a long time now would not be consistent with the facts. They've been one of the top economies for a long time as a result of their very high productivity among their multi-nationals and their leadership in technology. If low military spending was a major factor in economic success, Mexico, Austria and many small countries would be doing very well (although Ireland's growth could be used to support that point).
http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL32209.pdf for the spending on defense (1999 and 2002 data). Check out wikipedia for plenty of information about the Japanese economy.
From CIA - The World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
GNP per capita of Norway is $46000. For comparison, USA is down a way at $37000. If you're going to quote statistics, at least use the real ones from your link.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rank order/2004rank.html
-United Arab Emirates is $49,700 GDP per capita at PPP with a GDP of $129.4 billion at PPP
-Norway is $47,800 GDP per capita at PPP with a GDP of $207.3 billion at PPP
-United States is $43,500 GDP per capita at PPP with a GDP of $12.98 trillion at PPP
This is with the US and UAE all posting higher growth rates than Norway.
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If you're doing web work, primarily python, Wing IDE has great VIM support. It supports custom vim configurations and all of the good stuff. It has a free version, but I threw down some cash (d to get a sweet integrated debugger and test-running capabilities. I found it superior to both Netbeans and pydev on Eclipse, but both of those also support VIM text editing (with plugins). Basically, pretty much every decent python editor I've tried has supported vim either natively or via plugins.
here are what people have found so far digging through the code.
So you're saying that there are people interested in writing code to inject in to the game somehow via telnet that are too lazy to run a decompiler themselves?Bots were already easy enough to write for a game like this. Go try and start up a conversation with a miner in a low-population high-sec system if you doubt that.
That's dangerous thinking right there. You mean that when the government puts high taxes on these evil, filthy corporations that sell us all our stuff, they're actually taxing us? Well that just messes with my whole world view.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/125550.html
Reason TV covered this topic nicely. Create a real, legitimate, consensual way for people to donate their organs and be compensated, and these black market deals dry up. If I give my kidney to you and get to pay off my student loans, everyone wins.
Guess what. We've already reached the point you fear (at least from the point of view of most of the western world and the larger military powers). Robots augment armed forces that already have overwhelming force. They're not going to be creating a military where there was none.
To use a contemporary example, Iran isn't going to pump out a bunch of robots and all of the sudden have an armed forces capable of withstanding the US's in a conventional war. As per the logical process in the quotes though, you don't necessarily have to destroy the other side's army (or robots).
That would definitely effect any re-implementation I had to do. I probably didn't make myself clear, but the efficiency was gained on 100% new code adding a new set of basically standalone features (A quizzing module added to a document control system). Of course, the efficiency gain was over my estimates, and they're subject to the accuracy of my initial estimates. I've been using the trac timing and estimation plugin to track my estimations over this project though, and they've been pretty dead-on (especially the last couple months).
When I go back and do re-implementation of features already present in PHP, I should only expect big gains coming from being able to just port code instead of design. I would really like to see more empirical evidence on the topic myself, but all I have to go on is my personal data.
I just picked up django two weeks ago and I'm loving it. I'm converting a PHP project slowly, and as an anecdote on how much more productive django is than PHP (for me):
I had some features I had estimated out in PHP (over the last 6 months my estimates have been pretty dang close), and I implemented several of them in Django/python instead. I averaged beating my PHP estimate by 1/3rd, and that's including the time I spent trying to learn how the heck to do things in Django. I can't wait to see how things look once I've got at least an intermediate understanding of my framework. I don't hate PHP, I just love python much more.
From page 448-
All the examples in this chapter are written using PEAR coding standards.
So if there are samples not following the style, it's an error and no intended. I personally haven't looked through every single coding example though, so I can't make a claim other than that all the ones I've seen have followed the PEAR standard.
I have no idea if it's actually happened or not. I'd like for someone more knowledgeable on the subject to let me know why the situation I proposed doesn't happen. What's keeping lawyers from making money defending the little guy against the corporations? It seems like somebody has to be defending the RIAA guys, as we keep seeing cases on slashdot where the RIAA is having a hard time.
1. You defend a few smalltime cases where someone is sued by the RIAA. You learn what you need to know about the specific law and you hopefully find something that works as a defense. If the loser pays, you can get paid well for your victories, if not, go to 2. 2. You win a few cases and become "the guy" for defending that kind of suit. There are bound to be people that actually have spare income who are being sued by the RIAA. You now have leverage and notoriety to get those clients.
If big company X really is suing people at the kind of rate where lawyers give them economies of scale (I don't particularly know of this happening, but it seems possible), then the other side has the same opportunity.
Civil suits are about money. In the case of the dirt-poor civil defendant, big company X really has nothing to gain. We don't throw people in debtors prison and in all likelihood the company isn't going to see that money anyway, even if they win. All the loser pays system does is give the frivolous suit-makers (who only need to win a small percentage of their cases) a real financial deterrent to going sue-crazy without a good case. This helps both joe schmoe versus evil big company X and Company Y against dirtbag lawyer jon doe. Do you think those patent trolling companies would be able to keep their litigation up if they were shelling out google-sized legal fees every time they took a shot in the dark and lost?
People don't invest in governments. They invest in companies and people. The money is still flowing quite fine in silicone valley and nobody in China, Europe or anywhere else really wants to miss out on the "next google."
It's also important to remember that a weaker dollar does have positive implications. As china's GDP surges upwards, the cost of living and wages go up to. As the dollar gets "cheaper", companies with US-based services, production and employees are all of the sudden able to sell their wares internationally more competitively. Last month was a record month for US exports and if the dollar falls a bit more or stays steady, there will be more of the same in that regard.
As the dollar drops, all of the employees and operations in the US that weren't "cost-effective" look better and better and that helps the economy. A declining dollar is not all bad news. The sky is not falling.
It works pretty well for me. I'm running Miro .9 on MythBuntu 7.10 and I've used it to subscribe to some tvrss feeds pretty successfully.
My only complaint is that it's pretty crummy as a bittorent client. For some reason, using utorrent on another box on the same network, I get download speeds up to 10x faster than the same torrent on the miro client. I've never seen a miro download get past 10 kb/s, while I'll get 100+ kb/s on utorrent. I really can't guess why this might be.
I haven't had any trouble with the massive CPU usage or lockups that some have reported.
You're saying that airplanes that fail in flight, pacemakers and multi-million dollar satellites don't have their failures analyzed?
You should submit a suggestion to the FAA, FDA and communications companies to do some failure analysis. I'm sure they never thought of it. You could save them millions!
The settlement was ONE million dollars. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the http://investor.verizon.com/profile/overview.aspx 88.1 billion they did in revenue last year, which they'll likely surpass this year.
That's 1/88,100 of their revenue. For comparison, if you're somewhere around the GDP per capita at PPP of the US at $40k per year, that's like charging you 45cents as a fine. Yeah, that's really going to modify some behavior.
The only people that got any real benefit from this situation were lawyers. Verizon isn't going to stop cutting off accounts that don't make money for them.
The bible says "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;" Ephesians 5:18
Back in the day, before water purification techniques or even the understanding of what got a person sick and what didn't, wine was safer to drink than water. The wine they drink was also much less alcoholic than the wine we drink today. When Jesus turned water to wine as stated in the bible, think of it more like turning warm tap water to a cold soft drink or something along those lines.
And on the topic, there's a reason that movies give a basic reason for the rating. When I see an R rating for "Violence and adult language" it's different than if I see an R rating for "Nudity and extreme sexual content." The whole concept of a unified 5-slot rating system to classify offensiveness is completely intractable. The specific reasoning is much more useful to me, but nothing will ever trump parental involvement. Play Halo 3 for an hour or play GTA for an hour and you'll get a pretty decent, not complete, opinion of what the games' content is.
I remember reading Mars Direct back in Junior high in the mid 90s. http://www.marsdigest.com/MarsDirect.asp That was a plan, using technology from 1990 to get to Mars cheaply and set up a permanent colony for $20-$30 billion (cheap). The author evidentially knows what he's talking about and we've obviously had a wee bit of technology advancement in the last 17 years, but now NASA is saying we'll be barely on the moon in 30 years? It just boggles the mind that we're moving so slowly. Zubrin's plan in Mars Direct involved using low-tech structures and farming the natural resources already present on Mars to create a sustainable colony. He also focused on keeping the payloads cheap enough to use technology that's mass-produced for satellite launches so that costs stay down. Mars is a much better place to hang out for humans than the moon. It has soil that is favorable to some crops. It has gravity that's much stronger than that on the moon. The atmosphere is thick enough that only a slight addition in pressure would make it livable to plants (Zubrin talks about very thin plastic bubbles that could have a slight amount of air pumped in to increase the pressure to growable levels). Mars is also a base that we could use to launch mining missions to nearby asteroids. I wish some politician would step up to the plate and really commit to getting Mars for the good of whichever country he happens to live in (and humanity for that matter).