So that does make it unsuitable for documents saved from a word processor, unless you save in text format and add the formatting as the last step.
No, actually, line-based diff is almost entirely useless with written documents. You either have "soft" or "dynamic" word wrap (one line per paragraph), or "static" word wrap (newline on the end of each line). In the first case, a single change in a paragraph marks the *whole* paragraph as changed, and in the second case, a single change causes the paragraph to need to be re-wrapped and again the whole thing is marked as a change.
For written text (latex, html, or plain text), you probably need to use something like wdiff.
The trick is to allow others to edit the document without all that scary markup. It's trivial to typeset to text, html, rtf or doc files, but re-integrating those edits and comments back into the source file isn't easy.
In such a world only a very few would be able to afford to live off the fruits of their labour.
That's how it is now. The vast majorities of artists in any discipline don't survive off their art. In your example, I would argue that more people would be able to earn money from their art (more live performers), there would simply be far fewer people made rich from their art.
Slavery?? like math class? or being forced to read books as homework for English class? Requiring a couple days of community service over the course of 4 years of high-school does as much good for the student as it does for the community (small but potentially significant). At least in this case, the student can pick whatever he wants to do.
Because the sinking ship is a nuclear aircraft carrier that will take a decade to sink, while the frigate that's docked is still being built and doesn't have hot showers yet.
besides the fact that you provide no indication if these private firefighters are cheaper, more efficient, or simply better for the society as a whole, I'm curious about a few other problems:
What happens if no-one is home? How do they deal with insurance companies? wait on hold for confirmation before putting out the fire? Who pays for this "wildfire" type work? It still costs money to protect surrounding structures and rescue people.
The fire department doesn't seem to be outright bad, but I do have to wonder how much of the money they cost is spent because of idiots prank-calling or being too dumb to put out their cigarette before going to bed.
Yeah, better let your neighbor's house just burn to the ground because he's too poor or stupid. Oh, wait... fire spreads.
The long term trend is to slip down the slope into more and more regulated situations, sacrificing progress for safety until you can barely manage stagnation.[...] It's a straw man that socialists like to whack around a lot. The deregulators actually desire the least regulation while preserving system viability.
And market-stagnating-communism is a straw man that right-wingers use to discredit anything social. Sometimes it's simply a case of "kicking away the ladder," but it's usually more a failure to recognize a just-world fallacy. Good people get cancer and lose their job. Good "hard working americans" get laid off, and it's better for society if they are allowed to keep their house, and re-trained for a new job -rather than being kicked to the street.
Their's nothing wrong with looking for a balance -but "preaching" either side requires one to be ignorant of the issues and the real world data.
Two countries sharing a massive border. One has a highly regulated banking sector, one preaches deregulation.
One has a catastrophic banking failure leading to necessary "socialization" of corporate losses. The other has the most stable banking system in the first world.
Screaming "regulation is bad" without considering the situation is duckspeak, and no more intelligent than saying "anything socialist is bad" or "windows is always bad" just because it appears to be a popular viewpoint.
It could still work, on Linux. Suppose you had a program that checks the md5 of every executable file and library on the system with the distro's repository. Then creates a list of the remaining files to be confirmed manually. People writing software could simply manually mark their own software, or non-packaged software as needed.
And if there is a Collisions, I'm quite sure someone would actually *look* at the file in question before locking you up in pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
By that definition, any country that censors anything in the media/press, too, doesn't have free speech.
Yes. I'm pretty sure that's the correct definition. It may surprise you that many governments don't have the power to do that.
note: self-censorship by news media, and "media blackouts" don't count as government censorship (Not telling the media what I had for breakfast is non-transparency, not censorship).
I wouldn't mind going on a one-way trip to Mars after "robotic missions" have essentially built a small city to live in. Yeah, robots are the way to go for the first few decades of regular visits for sure.
If you have an electric cloths dryer, then you are talking real power consumption. Oven's are up there too, but tend to run less and don't just pump the heat straight outside as fast as it's produced (like a dryer).
While saturating two 30 amp circuits, drying a single load of laundry for an hour makes me cringe. My cloths lines and drying racks are the most energy efficient "appliances" I own.
Really, it makes sense. Imagine 2 million people download "punch a monkey" via the Google store. The malware, not surprisingly, racks up data access fees for customers. Who will get blamed by customers? Google. Seems like a good idea to have a way to kill it, particularly if customers are free to install from other, more "risky" repositories if they wish.
There is a big difference between a few high end "party" bureaucrats, and the sentiment of the people in China. I also wouldn't be surprised if the IOC had any influence on their "IP awakening".
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So that does make it unsuitable for documents saved from a word processor, unless you save in text format and add the formatting as the last step.
No, actually, line-based diff is almost entirely useless with written documents. You either have "soft" or "dynamic" word wrap (one line per paragraph), or "static" word wrap (newline on the end of each line). In the first case, a single change in a paragraph marks the *whole* paragraph as changed, and in the second case, a single change causes the paragraph to need to be re-wrapped and again the whole thing is marked as a change.
For written text (latex, html, or plain text), you probably need to use something like wdiff.
The trick is to allow others to edit the document without all that scary markup. It's trivial to typeset to text, html, rtf or doc files, but re-integrating those edits and comments back into the source file isn't easy.
MS Word just does not have the same feature set as ...LaTeX ... for serious document composure.
Fixed that for you. Seriously?? Word and "serious document composition" just don't belong in the same sentence.
In such a world only a very few would be able to afford to live off the fruits of their labour.
That's how it is now. The vast majorities of artists in any discipline don't survive off their art. In your example, I would argue that more people would be able to earn money from their art (more live performers), there would simply be far fewer people made rich from their art.
Slavery?? like math class? or being forced to read books as homework for English class? Requiring a couple days of community service over the course of 4 years of high-school does as much good for the student as it does for the community (small but potentially significant). At least in this case, the student can pick whatever he wants to do.
Because the sinking ship is a nuclear aircraft carrier that will take a decade to sink, while the frigate that's docked is still being built and doesn't have hot showers yet.
besides the fact that you provide no indication if these private firefighters are cheaper, more efficient, or simply better for the society as a whole, I'm curious about a few other problems:
What happens if no-one is home?
How do they deal with insurance companies? wait on hold for confirmation before putting out the fire?
Who pays for this "wildfire" type work? It still costs money to protect surrounding structures and rescue people.
The fire department doesn't seem to be outright bad, but I do have to wonder how much of the money they cost is spent because of idiots prank-calling or being too dumb to put out their cigarette before going to bed.
Yeah, better let your neighbor's house just burn to the ground because he's too poor or stupid. Oh, wait... fire spreads.
The long term trend is to slip down the slope into more and more regulated situations, sacrificing progress for safety until you can barely manage stagnation.[...] It's a straw man that socialists like to whack around a lot. The deregulators actually desire the least regulation while preserving system viability.
And market-stagnating-communism is a straw man that right-wingers use to discredit anything social. Sometimes it's simply a case of "kicking away the ladder," but it's usually more a failure to recognize a just-world fallacy. Good people get cancer and lose their job. Good "hard working americans" get laid off, and it's better for society if they are allowed to keep their house, and re-trained for a new job -rather than being kicked to the street.
Their's nothing wrong with looking for a balance -but "preaching" either side requires one to be ignorant of the issues and the real world data.
Two countries sharing a massive border. One has a highly regulated banking sector, one preaches deregulation.
One has a catastrophic banking failure leading to necessary "socialization" of corporate losses. The other has the most stable banking system in the first world.
Screaming "regulation is bad" without considering the situation is duckspeak, and no more intelligent than saying "anything socialist is bad" or "windows is always bad" just because it appears to be a popular viewpoint.
It could still work, on Linux. Suppose you had a program that checks the md5 of every executable file and library on the system with the distro's repository. Then creates a list of the remaining files to be confirmed manually. People writing software could simply manually mark their own software, or non-packaged software as needed.
Solution: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=rescue-disk
Truecrypt won't actually let you run whole disk encryption without creating a rescue disk.
10 years is probably a little short. However, 20 or 30 years and pretty much any data on a closed format going to give you problems.
And if there is a Collisions, I'm quite sure someone would actually *look* at the file in question before locking you up in pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Seems cut and dry to me too. *If* they had asked for a warrant, they surely would have gotten it.
What about legitimate internet video? I guess you just *have to* use services provided by your ISP or it's "partners?"
What about "tele-commuters?" Plenty of industries work with largish files and move them back and forth regularly (fMRI images anyone?).
There are plenty of uses for quality internet providers, it's just too bad they can't differentiate themselves from the fake "unlimited" providers.
By that definition, any country that censors anything in the media/press, too, doesn't have free speech.
Yes. I'm pretty sure that's the correct definition. It may surprise you that many governments don't have the power to do that.
note: self-censorship by news media, and "media blackouts" don't count as government censorship (Not telling the media what I had for breakfast is non-transparency, not censorship).
First you have to build a wall that won't be obliterated when hit by a 2 ton missile traveling at 1000mph.
I wouldn't mind going on a one-way trip to Mars after "robotic missions" have essentially built a small city to live in. Yeah, robots are the way to go for the first few decades of regular visits for sure.
If you have an electric cloths dryer, then you are talking real power consumption. Oven's are up there too, but tend to run less and don't just pump the heat straight outside as fast as it's produced (like a dryer).
While saturating two 30 amp circuits, drying a single load of laundry for an hour makes me cringe. My cloths lines and drying racks are the most energy efficient "appliances" I own.
The difference here: you didn't sell the 2p2 app to the customer.
Really, it makes sense. Imagine 2 million people download "punch a monkey" via the Google store. The malware, not surprisingly, racks up data access fees for customers. Who will get blamed by customers? Google. Seems like a good idea to have a way to kill it, particularly if customers are free to install from other, more "risky" repositories if they wish.
Try doing a little research. Big multinationals dragging little people over the coals of an unfair legal system is very much an American problem.
There is a big difference between a few high end "party" bureaucrats, and the sentiment of the people in China. I also wouldn't be surprised if the IOC had any influence on their "IP awakening".
It's called loser-pays. We have it up here in Canada, that and less lawsuits.