To deliberately ignore possible future improvements, hoping this will bring an opportunity of rewriting the code you write at the moment. A fantastic new perspective. Seriously. Thanks.
1. More code = better value for a client 2. More standards involved = better software 3. More frameworks involved = a diminished threat of available hardware and software being not fully exploited
End sarcasm. It's just important to be reasonable about which parts of a system need to be modular, flexible, configurable etc. Pushing craziest XSLT applications in the strangest places in a system doesn't make the program better. It however makes it big and and complicated, which, I guess, often makes one more popular with clients or management (also see 1.).
With a better car and more movies we are as trapped as without. What kind of a free society is this, if you are forced (not free) to choose between being "forced to A and not forced to B", and vice versa? Actually later you say you don't lose any freedom. Where's this sacrificing then? Maybe things are entirely different.
You are not free to chose something of less overall value. You are only free to have your nicer car "freedom". Actually, there's a lot pushing you into having this Photoshop. Even if it was an unlicensed copy, good for Adobe. By having it, you make it a bit harder for me not to use Photoshop.
You don't support people who make GPLed software when you are using Photoshop. You don't support those people when you say GNU is not free. You don't support them when you buy a nicer car.
It's because he apparently thinks that to be of concern to the press "in the modern world", somebody has to pay a lot for this. I'm no fan of Paul Graham, but he has written an interesting article about the business of press releases, which is a kind of a thing George Michael might be talking about: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I've discovered this film yesterday and haven't had time to watch much past the beginning. As far it has failed to change my initial suspicion that there's no way a scary big media organization in the likes of BBC is going to unmask any kind of real propaganda.
For example, they say that women began smoking because of a single event in which a group of feminists declared cigarettes to be "torches of freedom", which allegedly worked because of some Freudian sexual considerations (completely spurious). That's dubious on different levels, but the point is that it really did end an inequality between men and women in this respect, and that there exists today propaganda against cigarettes.
It's intriguing but turns out to be not necessarily true.
"If objects appear white (reflective in the visual spectrum), they are not necessarily equally reflective (and thus non-emissive) in the thermal infrared; e. g. most household radiators are painted white despite the fact that they have to be good thermal radiators. Acrylic and urethane based white paints have 93% blackbody radiation efficiency at room temperature (meaning the term "black body" does not always correspond to the visually perceived colour of an object)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation
Assuming it's really him, Beaty is a veteran of the subject (see his website). He has this enjoyable tidbit on his User: page (note it's quite extreme for him actually, I think):
It's time to close our eyes, stick fingers in our ears, then try to write a whole new collection of physics explanations by starting over from scratch (perhaps writing with pencils duct-taped to our elbows?):)
"A technical limitation" is, in reality, about "Man" vs. Nature: the problem of always imperfect technology.
In this EULA and in the MS blogger's doublespeak, "a technical limitation" suddenly changes its meaning to "limiting you with our technology": "Man" vs. Management (= the Law).
There's been this interesting article about the spectrum of "work", including both heat and sound:
So... Heat is a form of sound?!
Or should I say "heat" is sound, since many educators believe that the word "heat" causes misconceptions. I'll say it this way: thermal energy within physical objects is actually a very loud screech of hypersonic whitenoise. When a hot object is touched to a cold one, "phonons" of sound start pouring between them.
Is it indeed a very likely and usual situation, that a completely arbitrarily imagined mineral (as it quite probably had been in this case), is later found to be naturally forming in nature? I don't know.
Made me wonder whether this might have something to do with Neal Adams, an influential superhero comic book artist, being quite much into alternative geology, but apparently it's more kryptonite which could have inspired his interest, and not the other way round.
A desolate empty ruin is hardly something a corrupt politician would bother with. From a perspective of a few years now, Solidarity dissolved gracefully. It's not true that any significant number of prominent members became corrupt.
On a more general note, supporting a very wide and (in spite of this) completely non-violent movement might have been a unusual case of relative honesty in the West's international policy.
Maybe the Left of the West should have supported the regime against the people. Against free speech, for example; an extreme position.
The issue of religious education is a constant struggle. Might be one day rendered moot because of consumers' atheism.
The remark about Solidarity and museums is a bizarre slander.
Most of the leaders who had been instrumental in the overthrowing of the Soviet-army-backed regime are long gone from the political scene, back to their low-paying jobs in the academy, factory workers' retirement benefits and such.
The kind of incident you describe would be a rare occurrence, if anything like that happened at all. Actually, you know what? It's the businessmen from the old "communist" elite who have been doing things of this kind.
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Arrgh, wrong directions for a grave accent. See Wikipedia.
The problem (for a search, at least) is not so much the accent as that the accented E is omitted. The whole name can be quickly copied from eg. WP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Gassée
I've even actually looked up that it's an _acute_ accent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/É
The grave accent goes NE-SW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent
Interesting I can't put this links into Slashdot without A tags.
To deliberately ignore possible future improvements, hoping this will bring an opportunity of rewriting the code you write at the moment. A fantastic new perspective. Seriously. Thanks.
Been there...
1. More code = better value for a client
2. More standards involved = better software
3. More frameworks involved = a diminished threat of available hardware and software being not fully exploited
End sarcasm. It's just important to be reasonable about which parts of a system need to be modular, flexible, configurable etc. Pushing craziest XSLT applications in the strangest places in a system doesn't make the program better. It however makes it big and and complicated, which, I guess, often makes one more popular with clients or management (also see 1.).
With a better car and more movies we are as trapped as without. What kind of a free society is this, if you are forced (not free) to choose between being "forced to A and not forced to B", and vice versa? Actually later you say you don't lose any freedom. Where's this sacrificing then? Maybe things are entirely different.
You are not free to chose something of less overall value. You are only free to have your nicer car "freedom". Actually, there's a lot pushing you into having this Photoshop. Even if it was an unlicensed copy, good for Adobe. By having it, you make it a bit harder for me not to use Photoshop.
You don't support people who make GPLed software when you are using Photoshop. You don't support those people when you say GNU is not free. You don't support them when you buy a nicer car.
It's because he apparently thinks that to be of concern to the press "in the modern world", somebody has to pay a lot for this. I'm no fan of Paul Graham, but he has written an interesting article about the business of press releases, which is a kind of a thing George Michael might be talking about: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Maybe it's the genius of both the companies, that they figured out what kind of office space gives them the best of the people they want to employ.
Or they think they did, hence many not-so-great processors from Intel and not profitable Google's projects.
With the increasing amount of leisure time, you still don't have time to continue. ;-)
In a way it might, check out "Money as Debt" on Google Video.
I've discovered this film yesterday and haven't had time to watch much past the beginning. As far it has failed to change my initial suspicion that there's no way a scary big media organization in the likes of BBC is going to unmask any kind of real propaganda.
For example, they say that women began smoking because of a single event in which a group of feminists declared cigarettes to be "torches of freedom", which allegedly worked because of some Freudian sexual considerations (completely spurious). That's dubious on different levels, but the point is that it really did end an inequality between men and women in this respect, and that there exists today propaganda against cigarettes.
It's intriguing but turns out to be not necessarily true.
"If objects appear white (reflective in the visual spectrum), they are not necessarily equally reflective (and thus non-emissive) in the thermal infrared; e. g. most household radiators are painted white despite the fact that they have to be good thermal radiators. Acrylic and urethane based white paints have 93% blackbody radiation efficiency at room temperature (meaning the term "black body" does not always correspond to the visually perceived colour of an object)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation
"Painting engines black is more effective as a sales tool than it is at cooling an engine."
http://www.sacskyranch.com/paint.htm
Wikipedia says OpenDOS is proprietary, and it only had disclosed source until they took it back link
BTW 1: Despite being named OpenDOS.
BTW 2: tabs originated with NetCaptor!!1!
Assuming it's really him, Beaty is a veteran of the subject (see his website). He has this enjoyable tidbit on his User: page (note it's quite extreme for him actually, I think):
:)
It's time to close our eyes, stick fingers in our ears, then try to write a whole new collection of physics explanations by starting over from scratch (perhaps writing with pencils duct-taped to our elbows?)
"A technical limitation" is, in reality, about "Man" vs. Nature: the problem of always imperfect technology.
In this EULA and in the MS blogger's doublespeak, "a technical limitation" suddenly changes its meaning to "limiting you with our technology": "Man" vs. Management (= the Law).
There's been this interesting article about the spectrum of "work", including both heat and sound:
So... Heat is a form of sound?!
Or should I say "heat" is sound, since many educators believe that the word "heat" causes misconceptions. I'll say it this way: thermal energy within physical objects is actually a very loud screech of hypersonic whitenoise. When a hot object is touched to a cold one, "phonons" of sound start pouring between them.
http://amasci.com/miscon/a-rant.html
The upshot: "heat
energy" is the regime where sound has become so high in frequency that it
moves slowly and is renamed as "thermal vibrations."
http://amasci.com/heat.txt
...is the real skill. See cross-viewing here. I'm afraid I have a bit of the binocular problem they describe there, but I hope to improve.
I had only known about the Hoyle's Russel Lecture, thanks.
Is it indeed a very likely and usual situation, that a completely arbitrarily imagined mineral (as it quite probably had been in this case), is later found to be naturally forming in nature? I don't know.
Made me wonder whether this might have something to do with Neal Adams, an influential superhero comic book artist, being quite much into alternative geology, but apparently it's more kryptonite which could have inspired his interest, and not the other way round.
It is possible there had been such "Cold Warriors". It is an interesting point.
Poland, however, apart from the (formally not compulsory) religion classes, is quite far from being a theocracy.
A desolate empty ruin is hardly something a corrupt politician would bother with. From a perspective of a few years now, Solidarity dissolved gracefully. It's not true that any significant number of prominent members became corrupt.
On a more general note, supporting a very wide and (in spite of this) completely non-violent movement might have been a unusual case of relative honesty in the West's international policy.
Maybe the Left of the West should have supported the regime against the people. Against free speech, for example; an extreme position.
The issue of religious education is a constant struggle. Might be one day rendered moot because of consumers' atheism.
The remark about Solidarity and museums is a bizarre slander.
Most of the leaders who had been instrumental in the overthrowing of the Soviet-army-backed regime are long gone from the political scene, back to their low-paying jobs in the academy, factory workers' retirement benefits and such.
The kind of incident you describe would be a rare occurrence, if anything like that happened at all. Actually, you know what? It's the businessmen from the old "communist" elite who have been doing things of this kind.