"doing donuts" is american english slang for driving on slick/snowing area (usually parking lots) and intentionally going into a skid, causing the car to skid in a tight circle (causing a "donut" pattern from the tires in the snow).
Fine. I don't think boxing should be promoted. Doesn't seem to stop them.
I oppose gay marriage.
Here is where it is not-so fine. If you are actively trying to suppress two consensual adults from entering into a mutually beneficial contract because of their gender, you are anti-gay. Maybe you're ok with civil unions; that makes you less anti-gay and just deluded in believing that separate-but-equal will work this time.
No, they're not. There are most systems use multiple hand-written checks and guards that are then augmented by automated diversity techniques (imagine all the transformations your compiler does, applied randomly and iteratively) so that each of those checks is a unique code sequence. Of course the cracker can try to de-obfuscate them, or look for "essential actions" ala virus detection, but it really is an arms race similar to detecting virii. And if you think the virus-checkers are winning or inherently have the upper hand, I have a bridge to sell you.
Technically, what has to be proved is "for all code paths we can identify if the value is not an int." And then it can provide a backoff/error handler case when the value isn't an int. The issue is that typically the the error handler is significantly slower than doing it the naive way. So there is a cut-off point where the optimization because a net win, and generally you need some amount of profiling/feedback to correctly identify that cut-off.
First, the FSF needs to convince us average users need to have control. Why should average users have control over their computer? Isn't this what got us the virus nightmare in Windows?
Uh, because they bought the device? I think the burden is on the other side for taking away control.
I don't think Mac OS X will ever go away from giving you the control it does (and it is quite nice), but Mac OS X is not appropriate on a device like the iPad.
Why isn't OS X appropriate? What is the difference between this and an Air? I saw the presentation, the device sat between the iPod touch and the macbook. What is one OS appropriate and the other isn't?
In fact, I would compare the iPad to the upcoming yet-to-be-made Chromium netbook. The vision Google laid out for their device is pretty much exactly the same as Apple's vision of the iPad. Except that Apple is actually _less_ connected in to your device than Google would be.
"Google's doing it too!" is not a good argument.
Attacking Apple's products is one thing. Why not create your own open source tablet to compete, and let the marketplace decide?
Well, I'm sure it will: https://thejoojoo.com/, though the market doesn't always act rationally, and perhaps the FSF is trying to raise awareness about the freedoms people are giving up for Apple's style.
Really? Or that lawmakers will say "If I make this law, more people will go to jail, which means more money for my buddy's company which means, he'll have another one of those bitchin parties again this year" ? Do you really think that?
This seems like a fun game. Do you think its company's X strong moral fiber that will keep it from donating to PACs and paying lobbyists to argue for longer minimum sentences for crimes that pose relatively small dangers to society, when it will clearly benefit them financially? Do you think the lawmaker will say, "No I cannot accept your campaign contribution, because your positions are detrimental to my constituents"? Do you really think that?
So, I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. But has anyone who has gotten excited about this even bothered looking for unobserved variables. I don't know say, the affluence of a community and the likelihood that they have expensive voting machines. And that affluent communities might have different voting preferences that poorer communities?
Are we going to start banning ice cream to lower the murder rate next??
Call me mercenary but, tough as it is, I'd rather a million kids starve while the million that survive improve their quality of life and for the generations to come than save both million now and have ten million starving within a couple of generations.
Are you volunteering to been in that first million?
Or, in the form of a pithy phrase: Save the planet: Kill yourself.
Why? Animals are just a configuration of matter. Similar configurations just mean two entities are more likely able to interact in a useful way, and interaction is good. Why not replace one configuration with a better one?
Oh, you mean diversity in the animal kingdom actually help sustain life? I wonder if diversity would be useful in language? Probably not. . . I mean, maybe if there were some way a person could know more than one language, but now I'm just talking crazy.
I really think many people don't really "get" sociology.
For many (most?) FB users this isn't about what information is strictly available. It about the social consturcts that govener when and where it is appropriate to use that information. Example: Your breakup causes you to change your "relationship status" from "in a relationship" to "single." Now, presumably your real friends know this without looking it up on facebook. People who are acquaintances (but "friends" on facebook) might not be aware until they look at your profile. If they look at your profile every day (and specifically look at your relationship status), they might notice immediately. However, if they mention the breakup, its considered stalker-ish.
So basically, its not what information is made available, its how that information used. If you make it known that you're aware they changed relationship status earlier that day, then you're giving away information about yourself, specifically how often you check their FB profile. This is really the complaint about the news feeds. It can't really be considered stalker behavior if the information is presented to you.
I'll re-ask the question I asked the panel at VEE this year:
VMMs were created, in part because Operating Systems were unstable, incompatible, and often too big. Now we have all these VMMs that are unstable, incompatible, and trying to to more and more. So the question is: (1) What has the VMM community learned from the OS community, and (2) Why should I believe that we're going to get right this time?
Hm. I would have said that any (sufficiently careful) craftsman could be considered an artist (look at the common root of "artist" and "artisan" for example). Engineers are the ones who look up things in tables and follow specifications to exacting details.
But, I have no real desire to argue sematics (or aesthetics for that matter). But, I will say your art definition is explicitly tied to intent, which is kind of dangerous. Certainly any programmer who has called Scheme "beautiful" could argue that their scheme program intent to inspire emotion.
If you don't create a design document, enumerate use cases, etc, etc, you can hardly claim to be doing engineering. Some programmers might be doing engineering, most "hackers" are not.
As for art vs. science, "hacking" is clearly an art. Debugging is a science. This really isn't a hard concept. Art is a creative process, science is a tool for finding truth. Do you use the scientific method when you sit to to write code? Of course not. However, when you look at your (or someone else's) broken code, and want to know why it doesn't do what you think it should, the scientific method should come to mind.
The key is "devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation". This is what we should be doing in a business sense. We rob our citizen's of jobs in an effort to enrich few.
Therein lies the problem, eh? Capitalism, i.e., "rob[bing] our citizen's of jobs in a effort to enrich few." is at the heart of our nations culture. You can't really blame IBM for the fact that American culture is - erm - cannibalistic.
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"doing donuts" is american english slang for driving on slick/snowing area (usually parking lots) and intentionally going into a skid, causing the car to skid in a tight circle (causing a "donut" pattern from the tires in the snow).
I believe homosexual acts are a sin.
Fine. Many people believe eating bacon is a sin.
I believe homosexuality should not be promoted.
Fine. I don't think boxing should be promoted. Doesn't seem to stop them.
I oppose gay marriage.
Here is where it is not-so fine. If you are actively trying to suppress two consensual adults from entering into a mutually beneficial contract because of their gender, you are anti-gay. Maybe you're ok with civil unions; that makes you less anti-gay and just deluded in believing that separate-but-equal will work this time.
No, they're not. There are most systems use multiple hand-written checks and guards that are then augmented by automated diversity techniques (imagine all the transformations your compiler does, applied randomly and iteratively) so that each of those checks is a unique code sequence. Of course the cracker can try to de-obfuscate them, or look for "essential actions" ala virus detection, but it really is an arms race similar to detecting virii. And if you think the virus-checkers are winning or inherently have the upper hand, I have a bridge to sell you.
Technically, what has to be proved is "for all code paths we can identify if the value is not an int." And then it can provide a backoff/error handler case when the value isn't an int. The issue is that typically the the error handler is significantly slower than doing it the naive way. So there is a cut-off point where the optimization because a net win, and generally you need some amount of profiling/feedback to correctly identify that cut-off.
Reminds me of a friends facebook status: "At Genius Bar. I can think of at least two things wrong with that name."
First, the FSF needs to convince us average users need to have control. Why should average users have control over their computer? Isn't this what got us the virus nightmare in Windows?
Uh, because they bought the device? I think the burden is on the other side for taking away control.
I don't think Mac OS X will ever go away from giving you the control it does (and it is quite nice), but Mac OS X is not appropriate on a device like the iPad.
Why isn't OS X appropriate? What is the difference between this and an Air? I saw the presentation, the device sat between the iPod touch and the macbook. What is one OS appropriate and the other isn't?
In fact, I would compare the iPad to the upcoming yet-to-be-made Chromium netbook. The vision Google laid out for their device is pretty much exactly the same as Apple's vision of the iPad. Except that Apple is actually _less_ connected in to your device than Google would be.
"Google's doing it too!" is not a good argument.
Attacking Apple's products is one thing. Why not create your own open source tablet to compete, and let the marketplace decide?
Well, I'm sure it will: https://thejoojoo.com/, though the market doesn't always act rationally, and perhaps the FSF is trying to raise awareness about the freedoms people are giving up for Apple's style.
a quick glance of some of what litters youtube. . .
If I take my trash to the dump, do you call that littering?
Really? Or that lawmakers will say "If I make this law, more people will go to jail, which means more money for my buddy's company which means, he'll have another one of those bitchin parties again this year" ? Do you really think that?
This seems like a fun game. Do you think its company's X strong moral fiber that will keep it from donating to PACs and paying lobbyists to argue for longer minimum sentences for crimes that pose relatively small dangers to society, when it will clearly benefit them financially? Do you think the lawmaker will say, "No I cannot accept your campaign contribution, because your positions are detrimental to my constituents"? Do you really think that?
So, I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. But has anyone who has gotten excited about this even bothered looking for unobserved variables. I don't know say, the affluence of a community and the likelihood that they have expensive voting machines. And that affluent communities might have different voting preferences that poorer communities?
Are we going to start banning ice cream to lower the murder rate next??
Call me mercenary but, tough as it is, I'd rather a million kids starve while the million that survive improve their quality of life and for the generations to come than save both million now and have ten million starving within a couple of generations.
Are you volunteering to been in that first million?
Or, in the form of a pithy phrase:
Save the planet: Kill yourself.
Why? Animals are just a configuration of matter. Similar configurations just mean two entities are more likely able to interact in a useful way, and interaction is good. Why not replace one configuration with a better one?
Oh, you mean diversity in the animal kingdom actually help sustain life? I wonder if diversity would be useful in language? Probably not. . . I mean, maybe if there were some way a person could know more than one language, but now I'm just talking crazy.
Cars plug in, and mostly drive themselves.
Heh. Are we going to be using the metric system too?
Can I imply from this. . .
No, but you can infer it.
I'll let this guy explain it to you.
Have a look at singularity.
http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/
By that logic couldn't you say "C and Fortran are essentially the same things considering they transform into the same x86 instructions." . . ?
I really think many people don't really "get" sociology.
For many (most?) FB users this isn't about what information is strictly available. It about the social consturcts that govener when and where it is appropriate to use that information. Example: Your breakup causes you to change your "relationship status" from "in a relationship" to "single." Now, presumably your real friends know this without looking it up on facebook. People who are acquaintances (but "friends" on facebook) might not be aware until they look at your profile. If they look at your profile every day (and specifically look at your relationship status), they might notice immediately. However, if they mention the breakup, its considered stalker-ish.
So basically, its not what information is made available, its how that information used. If you make it known that you're aware they changed relationship status earlier that day, then you're giving away information about yourself, specifically how often you check their FB profile. This is really the complaint about the news feeds. It can't really be considered stalker behavior if the information is presented to you.
Meaning is a verb
Careful with your linguification.
I'll re-ask the question I asked the panel at VEE this year:
VMMs were created, in part because Operating Systems were unstable, incompatible, and often too big. Now we have all these VMMs that are unstable, incompatible, and trying to to more and more. So the question is:
(1) What has the VMM community learned from the OS community, and
(2) Why should I believe that we're going to get right this time?
Can't the slashdot editors answer this one? Why do you have half of the front page filled with apple stories?
Hm. I would have said that any (sufficiently careful) craftsman could be considered an artist (look at the common root of "artist" and "artisan" for example). Engineers are the ones who look up things in tables and follow specifications to exacting details.
But, I have no real desire to argue sematics (or aesthetics for that matter). But, I will say your art definition is explicitly tied to intent, which is kind of dangerous. Certainly any programmer who has called Scheme "beautiful" could argue that their scheme program intent to inspire emotion.
If you don't create a design document, enumerate use cases, etc, etc, you can hardly claim to be doing engineering. Some programmers might be doing engineering, most "hackers" are not.
As for art vs. science, "hacking" is clearly an art. Debugging is a science. This really isn't a hard concept. Art is a creative process, science is a tool for finding truth. Do you use the scientific method when you sit to to write code? Of course not. However, when you look at your (or someone else's) broken code, and want to know why it doesn't do what you think it should, the scientific method should come to mind.
RSS man, RSS man,
RSS man hates Atom man,
They have a fight, RSS wins.
RSS man.
you mean like Konqueror's web shortcuts?
1995? Hmmm IBM's OS/400 native filesystem has been a database (now nominally a varient of DB/2) for decades.
The key is "devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation". This is what we should be doing in a business sense. We rob our citizen's of jobs in an effort to enrich few.
Therein lies the problem, eh? Capitalism, i.e., "rob[bing] our citizen's of jobs in a effort to enrich few." is at the heart of our nations culture. You can't really blame IBM for the fact that American culture is - erm - cannibalistic.