Politicians always served the money, not the common people. Regular folks are used every 4 years to rubber stamp one of two candidates and legitimize the system for another period.
I think parents need to limit the functionality of mobile phones. Certain apps should have a daily time limit and a schedule. At least on iOS, this is not possible due to limitations imposed by Apple.
No, if I slide to camera from the lock screen of my phone and it takes 20 fucking seconds to finish the iris animation and actually give me the video feed on the screen, then the photo opportunity is long dead and buried and I can take a selfie of myself crying in frustration instead. Many modern phones are SLUGGISH with opening the camera - this should not happen - there should be less than 0.5s delay between the moment I want to shoot and the moment I shot the photo.
> When I push a button and nothing happens, I wonder if my man hands confused the sensors.
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I've always been irked when UI doesn't prioritize the user over other async events and work - for example, blocking an app while resolving DNS. What if the user wants to cancel? What if it was a mis-click? The buttons should always work.
This sometimes happens because the software is not well written in an async style, but other times the computation itself slows down the system too much to be useful any more - for example - when the Bash console doesn't respond any more because of huge system load - how is the user supposed to kill processes then? At least free 5% of the cpu for the console!
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Using Tor is just half the equation here - people should be made aware that the moment they connect to their FB or GMail accounts, their privacy is destroyed, Tor or no Tor.
I propose a proxy that would clean up all outgoing communications of private data such as emails and names. That, coupled with Tor, would mean privacy.
> The universe doesn't need ANY people. It never did. It never will.
LOL. The people ARE the universe. The whole concept of the universe needing anything is useless, my LEGO pieces don't NEED the house they were forming, they were the house.
> Instead, he was an ass and publicly gave the name of a worker who was doing what company policy was
Good. That means he was doing a public service. Someone has to point out rude behavior. If the airline would have responded to the tweet with some sensible information, I might have bought your argument, but the airline was 100x more rude by taking him off the flight. Good thing someone had enough sense to stop this power-tripping airline employee and damaging the image of the company even further.
> from the beginning of time until about 50 years ago, men were in control of most societies
There are two categories of men here: 1. the rulers and 2. the ruled. The first category ruled over the second and women. The second category of men (which were 99.99% of them, anyway) were doing all the worst jobs: wars, hunting, dangerous work. Women were more or less protected. Thus, men had it best and worst at the same time.
Maybe they should print the average or median price for the app, including the in-app purchases. That would be more fair.
"People using this app have made 3.55$ in app purchases, in average"
If there's one IDE I loved it was the Turbo Pascal 7 from MSDOS. It was pure and minimalistic. I still use Chrome Developer Tools a lot in order to inspect web pages, but 90% of my work is being debugged with print statements and I see no problem with that.
> Well, the post is directed at the 98.3% that do..
Haha, do you think you can solve this by voting? The system is rigged. The 2 party system + gerrymandering + unlimited funds for campaigning from rich people = clusterfuck. There is no getting out of this by voting. Now they suppress our rights too: the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, even the right to vote in for many people.
> They knowingly put criminals into high office.
As opposed to voting who? Who deserves our vote? The whole bunch is rotten, sometimes the ones who campaign on restoring people's rights and defending their interest being the most corrupt.
> A book, on the other hand, can be scanned quite easily, but in order to be marketed as a professional-looking eBook (as opposed to a low quality, camera-like image of the original book), the scanned text needs to be manipulated with word processing software to reset the fonts and improve the appearance of the text.'"
Instead of converting images to text, why not simply identify the rectangles boxing all the words, and reflow them? If I have a small PNG for each word of a book, and their positions in the page, I could write an algorithm to reflow the words into any desired row width and page size. Images could be captured the same way. They don't need to actually OCR the text unless they want to implement search.
I think the greatest advantage the Internet has given us is total interconnectivity. I am just one click away, one network packet away from any site or person, no matter where it is. Borders and physical space have become meaningless. We all form one global village.
But then come the bad guys and start destroying this high degree of integration by carving up artificial borders: GeoIP walls, pay walls (I'm looking at you, JSTOR), closed garden communities starting with AOL, the instant messengers and ending with FB.
Aaron fought against this. It's a cancer to our Internet. It should not exist.
Sure you don't need to help. Parents are parents just by natural urge. And your parents for example didn't need any help to raise you because everything is cheap and kids cost next to nothing.
No problem. Countries like Japan which have the lowest birth rates and most sexless marriages in the world will simply shrink in population and be replaced by less egotistical peoples. Everyone for himself, screw the general interest. Hurray
Yes, exactly. I believe there's nothing fundamentally different between a human and a rock. Only the level of consciousness differs. In fact humans have 3 functional levels or states of consciousness : wake, dreaming sleep and dreamless sleep. A rock and a human sleeping in a deep dreamless sleep have about the same level of consciousness. It is not that consciousness is inexistent then, it's just that is is not reflecting on anything, not even back on itself. It is consciousness disconnected. Probably sounds crazy.
Some mystics have been able to perceive that consciousness is the real nature of the whole reality, and I have similar personal insights. Some physicists have this theory that the quantum waves are the real domain of consciousness. The inexplicable (considered random, or probabilistic) way a quantum wave collapses is the work of consciousness. There really might be a physical basis for the thesis "everything is consciousness".
Then God would just be the 'summum bonum' or the so called Supreme Consciousness that originally divided itself and created both beings and inanimate objects. So there's a philosophy that can accommodate both physics and religion and resolve the conflicting points of view in a larger context. It's also called idealistic monism (everything is one, and the One is of a mental type) - also combined with some sort of spiritual realism (the matter as it is known by the five senses and the sciences is just a form of "Condensed Spiritual Light").
A human is not simply 50kg of oxygen, 10kg of carbon and a hundred other elements, but a conscious entity. We are that particular aspect where the universe becomes aware of itself. So yes, there might be more than an evolutionary explanation to religiousness, more than genes and natural selection justifications.
I for one believe that consciousness is an intrinsic property of matter, not emerging from a combination of factors (like for example the concept of gaseous pressure - an emergent property of matter, introduced by statistical physics). If consciousness is embedded in the fabric of this reality then the preoccupation with spirituality, philosophy, religion and the nature of consciousness are as natural as seeing and thinking to us.
There are those who seek to measure, analyze and formalize in a scientific way - they prefer relying on their senses and rational thinking. Then there are those who favor the "unscientific" way of relying more on intuition, the ineffable, the mysterious - they center more on the interior. So this division is about exterior vs interior, or ration vs intuition, sort of speak similar with the difference between classical Newtonian physics vs quantum "wave-form-collapse" description of reality.
I don't consider religion should embrace such a hatred of science. And yes, many atheistic people also fall in the same trap and despise the ones who believe in a spiritual causation of this world. This dispute is somewhat more about the social aspects, who believes in what book, historically what has been served to the masses as the "correct" doctrine and who's turn is now to admit mistakes, and take a damage to their pride.
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Politicians always served the money, not the common people. Regular folks are used every 4 years to rubber stamp one of two candidates and legitimize the system for another period.
I think parents need to limit the functionality of mobile phones. Certain apps should have a daily time limit and a schedule. At least on iOS, this is not possible due to limitations imposed by Apple.
No, if I slide to camera from the lock screen of my phone and it takes 20 fucking seconds to finish the iris animation and actually give me the video feed on the screen, then the photo opportunity is long dead and buried and I can take a selfie of myself crying in frustration instead. Many modern phones are SLUGGISH with opening the camera - this should not happen - there should be less than 0.5s delay between the moment I want to shoot and the moment I shot the photo.
> When I push a button and nothing happens, I wonder if my man hands confused the sensors.
[rant]
I've always been irked when UI doesn't prioritize the user over other async events and work - for example, blocking an app while resolving DNS. What if the user wants to cancel? What if it was a mis-click? The buttons should always work.
This sometimes happens because the software is not well written in an async style, but other times the computation itself slows down the system too much to be useful any more - for example - when the Bash console doesn't respond any more because of huge system load - how is the user supposed to kill processes then? At least free 5% of the cpu for the console! [/rant]
This fight seems to be Socialism vs Capitalism in the last mile.
Using Tor is just half the equation here - people should be made aware that the moment they connect to their FB or GMail accounts, their privacy is destroyed, Tor or no Tor. I propose a proxy that would clean up all outgoing communications of private data such as emails and names. That, coupled with Tor, would mean privacy.
> The universe doesn't need ANY people. It never did. It never will.
LOL. The people ARE the universe. The whole concept of the universe needing anything is useless, my LEGO pieces don't NEED the house they were forming, they were the house.
>> Lately it seem that companies have become fully intolerant of bad reviews or negative feedback
> Wait, you're actually complaining that Southwest didn't let your family cut ahead of others?
Yes, that's what he said. Isn't it obvious?
I forward Kimberly for a position in the PR department. She clearly understands SWA's attitude best, as exemplified.
> Instead, he was an ass and publicly gave the name of a worker who was doing what company policy was
Good. That means he was doing a public service. Someone has to point out rude behavior. If the airline would have responded to the tweet with some sensible information, I might have bought your argument, but the airline was 100x more rude by taking him off the flight. Good thing someone had enough sense to stop this power-tripping airline employee and damaging the image of the company even further.
> from the beginning of time until about 50 years ago, men were in control of most societies There are two categories of men here: 1. the rulers and 2. the ruled. The first category ruled over the second and women. The second category of men (which were 99.99% of them, anyway) were doing all the worst jobs: wars, hunting, dangerous work. Women were more or less protected. Thus, men had it best and worst at the same time.
Maybe they should print the average or median price for the app, including the in-app purchases. That would be more fair. "People using this app have made 3.55$ in app purchases, in average"
If there's one IDE I loved it was the Turbo Pascal 7 from MSDOS. It was pure and minimalistic. I still use Chrome Developer Tools a lot in order to inspect web pages, but 90% of my work is being debugged with print statements and I see no problem with that.
> Well, the post is directed at the 98.3% that do..
Haha, do you think you can solve this by voting? The system is rigged. The 2 party system + gerrymandering + unlimited funds for campaigning from rich people = clusterfuck. There is no getting out of this by voting. Now they suppress our rights too: the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, even the right to vote in for many people.
> They knowingly put criminals into high office. As opposed to voting who? Who deserves our vote? The whole bunch is rotten, sometimes the ones who campaign on restoring people's rights and defending their interest being the most corrupt.
> A book, on the other hand, can be scanned quite easily, but in order to be marketed as a professional-looking eBook (as opposed to a low quality, camera-like image of the original book), the scanned text needs to be manipulated with word processing software to reset the fonts and improve the appearance of the text.'"
Instead of converting images to text, why not simply identify the rectangles boxing all the words, and reflow them? If I have a small PNG for each word of a book, and their positions in the page, I could write an algorithm to reflow the words into any desired row width and page size. Images could be captured the same way. They don't need to actually OCR the text unless they want to implement search.
I think the greatest advantage the Internet has given us is total interconnectivity. I am just one click away, one network packet away from any site or person, no matter where it is. Borders and physical space have become meaningless. We all form one global village. But then come the bad guys and start destroying this high degree of integration by carving up artificial borders: GeoIP walls, pay walls (I'm looking at you, JSTOR), closed garden communities starting with AOL, the instant messengers and ending with FB. Aaron fought against this. It's a cancer to our Internet. It should not exist.
Sure you don't need to help. Parents are parents just by natural urge. And your parents for example didn't need any help to raise you because everything is cheap and kids cost next to nothing. No problem. Countries like Japan which have the lowest birth rates and most sexless marriages in the world will simply shrink in population and be replaced by less egotistical peoples. Everyone for himself, screw the general interest. Hurray
You are a human being, product of this society. As such, your existence is dependent upon society's need to cover the costs of continuation.
Supposing you are a man - should all vagina-related diseases not be researched with your money?
Egotistical pig
Yes, exactly. I believe there's nothing fundamentally different between a human and a rock. Only the level of consciousness differs. In fact humans have 3 functional levels or states of consciousness : wake, dreaming sleep and dreamless sleep. A rock and a human sleeping in a deep dreamless sleep have about the same level of consciousness. It is not that consciousness is inexistent then, it's just that is is not reflecting on anything, not even back on itself. It is consciousness disconnected. Probably sounds crazy.
Some mystics have been able to perceive that consciousness is the real nature of the whole reality, and I have similar personal insights. Some physicists have this theory that the quantum waves are the real domain of consciousness. The inexplicable (considered random, or probabilistic) way a quantum wave collapses is the work of consciousness. There really might be a physical basis for the thesis "everything is consciousness".
Then God would just be the 'summum bonum' or the so called Supreme Consciousness that originally divided itself and created both beings and inanimate objects. So there's a philosophy that can accommodate both physics and religion and resolve the conflicting points of view in a larger context. It's also called idealistic monism (everything is one, and the One is of a mental type) - also combined with some sort of spiritual realism (the matter as it is known by the five senses and the sciences is just a form of "Condensed Spiritual Light").
A human is not simply 50kg of oxygen, 10kg of carbon and a hundred other elements, but a conscious entity. We are that particular aspect where the universe becomes aware of itself. So yes, there might be more than an evolutionary explanation to religiousness, more than genes and natural selection justifications.
I for one believe that consciousness is an intrinsic property of matter, not emerging from a combination of factors (like for example the concept of gaseous pressure - an emergent property of matter, introduced by statistical physics). If consciousness is embedded in the fabric of this reality then the preoccupation with spirituality, philosophy, religion and the nature of consciousness are as natural as seeing and thinking to us.
There are those who seek to measure, analyze and formalize in a scientific way - they prefer relying on their senses and rational thinking. Then there are those who favor the "unscientific" way of relying more on intuition, the ineffable, the mysterious - they center more on the interior. So this division is about exterior vs interior, or ration vs intuition, sort of speak similar with the difference between classical Newtonian physics vs quantum "wave-form-collapse" description of reality.
I don't consider religion should embrace such a hatred of science. And yes, many atheistic people also fall in the same trap and despise the ones who believe in a spiritual causation of this world. This dispute is somewhat more about the social aspects, who believes in what book, historically what has been served to the masses as the "correct" doctrine and who's turn is now to admit mistakes, and take a damage to their pride.