So what? Since when is a business a good thing whose only source of revenue is advertising? Ever went to a store that gives away everything for free but forces you to watch lots of ads?
Another EEE 901 user here. I'm currently in chapter 10 of my second book, both of them written almost exclusively on my EEE and mostly outside. Try to do that with a tablet...
There's likely also a strong correlation between running and wrist injuries. Nevertheless, running and having a wrist injuriy don't have much to do with each other and the latter doesn't help you with the former.
No FUD at all. Ada is worthless without the runtime. The license of the GNAT Ada runtime forces you to put programs compiled with the GPL version (mainly developed by AdaCore) under the GPL, too. The FSF version is licensed under the MGPL, a modified version of the GPL that allows you to use the runtime in non-GPL'ed software. However, the MGPL version lacks some essential libraries.
The restrictive licensing of GNAT is probably one of the major reasons why Ada never became very popular for general purpose programming. It's a great language but lacks compilers.
I'm using it for time-critical stuff. It's complex and has some arcane syntax features, but it's still easier than C++ and a lot safer than C and C++. One problem is the lack of free or affordable compilers, there is not enough competition to GNAT and AdaCore makes sure that the *really* free FSF version with MGPL lacks essential features, whereas their own free versions are useless for anything but GPL'ed software.
Overall it's a very powerful and fast language that I would recommend for real software development (as opposed to gluing together other people's libraries).
Some eyetrackers measure rapid eye movements that are mostly unconscious. In other words, you don't really know what your eyes look at in the flick of a second. If you first wear one of those head-mountable eye trackers and a woman is nearby it can be embarrassing and amusing to everyone. Or, so I've been told. I haven't tried one myself yet.
Thinking two more seconds about it, I'm afraid I have to correct myself. Try Brazilian Portuguese instead...because the women are really hot, and have a working and fulfilling sexual relationship will likely improve your work as a programmer.
Kinda like people who say vinyl or vhs is superior to digital audio and video, I suspect this whole 'butt is it art' routine is more about social exclusivity and differentiation (and unhealthy doses of insecurity) than it is about their actual experience.
What's your point? People are sometimes irrational in their choices, and, of course, sociological factors play a role in determining them. Otherwise a large part of high-end markets in all kinds of domains as well as most corporate branding would vanish overnight. Objective measures, e.g. whether people would fail a blind test or not, are fairly irrelevant if people do not consume blindly. The things we are talking about are meant to be interesting and primarily entertaining. Sure, you can spend a decent amount of marketing into "educating" people about what they "should" prefer but the question is whether that money is really well spent if people already have other preferences. Experience always come in one package, including all kinds of "side" factors. There is really no point in tasting wine out of plastic cups or having a gourmet meal in a fast food restaurant.
free & open-source software existed before RMS and would have existed without him
That is much less likely than you might think. (Perhaps you confuse free software with public domain software.)
Richard Stallman founded the FSF and without the FSF and the accompanying, carefully designed GPL free software would have very likely vanished from the earth already in the 90s when the first anti-free-software lawsuits came up. RMS frequently makes the case that many other people were just as important, though. For example, the fact that Eben Moglen got involved quite early with the FSF was probably also extremely important for free software and GNU/Linux in particular.
As a friend of mine who is a sound engineer explained to me many times, loudness is purely subjective. It's a well-studied phenomenon in psychoacoustics. Sound Engineers use a combination of good recording techniques, compression and limiting to achieve it - maximizing loudness is still somewhat of a black art, particularly if you want your recording to sound good even *after* radio stations and TV channels have run it through their own after-effects chain in order to further increase loudness. (They're doing that because people tend to switch to the loudest channels.) Amplitudes play only a minor role in all of this, they are just the starting point. You can easily see the effects of compression/limiters in the spectrogramms (is that the right term? nevermind), they look like one fat almost completely filled bar with no real dynamics.
Anyway, I wonder how FCC deals with that. Probably not.
I don't want Google to give me what it thinks I want, or SHOULD want, or even what "most people" want - I want a pure result set basic on simple pattern matching in the dataset.
Then you shouldn't use Google, as they have cared since their early beginnings for the things you do not want. Their secret page ranking and search heuristics is the main reason why they became the most popular search engine. (Not that I ever had any problems finding things with HotBot, wonder what happened to it BTW.)
I think there can easily be a technical solution. Just put a switch on every computer. If it's in UNLOCKED position you may install a new operating system, if it is in LOCKED position you may not install a new OS and the whole boot process is locked down.
It seems obvious that you don't listen to him, so what's the problem from your perspective? Somebody disagreeing with you?
That being said, instead of answering your question, let me rather tell you why so many people hate Stallman and rant against him. The reason is simply that he's right about most of the things he says, but people do not always like hearing the truth if it is inconvenient. With that respect he has a lot in common with Socrates...
Coincidentally, I just spent a long time yesterday looking for a small (=pocketable) programmable calculator versatile enough to be used for simple general purpose 'applications', and found the Casio FX-9860g Slim. It would be perfect for me, but unfortunately is sold out about everywhere in the world.:(
I know there are plenty of older retro machines like that on Ebay, but these are from the 80s and I'd like to have something more recent and faster.
Does anyone know a similar device?
I'm also looking for programmable 'electronic organizer' with PC link, but these seem to have died out as well. (Please don't suggest a smartphone, I already have one and these devices just plain suck for almost everything---no battery life, too expensive, not enough keys.)
No it's not a good thing. Nobody needs an upgrade of his OS every 12 months (including the people who like it). Every upgrade is a hassle and potentially creates problems. The idea is crazy and doesn't make any business sense.
Apple upgrade their OS so often in order to make hardware appear to be outdated earlier than necessary, because they still make the majority of their money with hardware sales.
It seems to me that companies who make a living off free software mostly make money from contract and support work, not from selling the software itself, which also seems to work best if the software is very complex, see e.g. AdaCore. But what about traditional, desktop `end-consumer' software? When I asked this on some newsgroup a while ago, somebody suggested to use an extremely obscure programming language (security through obscurity), so nobody else than me would understand the source anyway.
Do you have a better suggestion than writing everything in Brainf**ck? How can a small developer who makes software for everyone (as opposed to "b2b") make money with free software?
He meant that an ANN with real numbers is a hypercomputer, which is true.
The problem is that like most conceivable hypercomputers neural networks with real numbers would violate natural laws, e.g. the laws of thermodynamics.
So what? In any case tax avoidance is extremely anti-social. I will never understand why people/companies think it's okay to not contribute to a society from which the hugely benefit.
The company benefits from roads, public infrastructure, the power grid, education of workers, social securities, environmental policies, police, fireworkers, the health system, democratic laws, public places and gardens, museums and many other cultural institutions, etc., etc., and they don't want to pay back? If they like them so much, why doesn't Google put all of their servers on the Bermudas?
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So what? Since when is a business a good thing whose only source of revenue is advertising? Ever went to a store that gives away everything for free but forces you to watch lots of ads?
The iOS / Android store model is everything that the Slashdot crowd claims to support in software development.
Perhaps for some, yet for me it's just a pile of turd and I'm also on /.
Another EEE 901 user here. I'm currently in chapter 10 of my second book, both of them written almost exclusively on my EEE and mostly outside. Try to do that with a tablet...
There's likely also a strong correlation between running and wrist injuries. Nevertheless, running and having a wrist injuriy don't have much to do with each other and the latter doesn't help you with the former.
No FUD at all. Ada is worthless without the runtime. The license of the GNAT Ada runtime forces you to put programs compiled with the GPL version (mainly developed by AdaCore) under the GPL, too. The FSF version is licensed under the MGPL, a modified version of the GPL that allows you to use the runtime in non-GPL'ed software. However, the MGPL version lacks some essential libraries.
The restrictive licensing of GNAT is probably one of the major reasons why Ada never became very popular for general purpose programming. It's a great language but lacks compilers.
I'm using it for time-critical stuff. It's complex and has some arcane syntax features, but it's still easier than C++ and a lot safer than C and C++. One problem is the lack of free or affordable compilers, there is not enough competition to GNAT and AdaCore makes sure that the *really* free FSF version with MGPL lacks essential features, whereas their own free versions are useless for anything but GPL'ed software.
Overall it's a very powerful and fast language that I would recommend for real software development (as opposed to gluing together other people's libraries).
Some eyetrackers measure rapid eye movements that are mostly unconscious. In other words, you don't really know what your eyes look at in the flick of a second. If you first wear one of those head-mountable eye trackers and a woman is nearby it can be embarrassing and amusing to everyone. Or, so I've been told. I haven't tried one myself yet.
Thinking two more seconds about it, I'm afraid I have to correct myself. Try Brazilian Portuguese instead...because the women are really hot, and have a working and fulfilling sexual relationship will likely improve your work as a programmer.
Or, reverse Polish. For obvious reasons...
Kinda like people who say vinyl or vhs is superior to digital audio and video, I suspect this whole 'butt is it art' routine is more about social exclusivity and differentiation (and unhealthy doses of insecurity) than it is about their actual experience.
What's your point? People are sometimes irrational in their choices, and, of course, sociological factors play a role in determining them. Otherwise a large part of high-end markets in all kinds of domains as well as most corporate branding would vanish overnight. Objective measures, e.g. whether people would fail a blind test or not, are fairly irrelevant if people do not consume blindly. The things we are talking about are meant to be interesting and primarily entertaining. Sure, you can spend a decent amount of marketing into "educating" people about what they "should" prefer but the question is whether that money is really well spent if people already have other preferences. Experience always come in one package, including all kinds of "side" factors. There is really no point in tasting wine out of plastic cups or having a gourmet meal in a fast food restaurant.
free & open-source software existed before RMS and would have existed without him
That is much less likely than you might think. (Perhaps you confuse free software with public domain software.)
Richard Stallman founded the FSF and without the FSF and the accompanying, carefully designed GPL free software would have very likely vanished from the earth already in the 90s when the first anti-free-software lawsuits came up. RMS frequently makes the case that many other people were just as important, though. For example, the fact that Eben Moglen got involved quite early with the FSF was probably also extremely important for free software and GNU/Linux in particular.
As a friend of mine who is a sound engineer explained to me many times, loudness is purely subjective. It's a well-studied phenomenon in psychoacoustics. Sound Engineers use a combination of good recording techniques, compression and limiting to achieve it - maximizing loudness is still somewhat of a black art, particularly if you want your recording to sound good even *after* radio stations and TV channels have run it through their own after-effects chain in order to further increase loudness. (They're doing that because people tend to switch to the loudest channels.) Amplitudes play only a minor role in all of this, they are just the starting point. You can easily see the effects of compression/limiters in the spectrogramms (is that the right term? nevermind), they look like one fat almost completely filled bar with no real dynamics.
Anyway, I wonder how FCC deals with that. Probably not.
I don't want Google to give me what it thinks I want, or SHOULD want, or even what "most people" want - I want a pure result set basic on simple pattern matching in the dataset.
Then you shouldn't use Google, as they have cared since their early beginnings for the things you do not want. Their secret page ranking and search heuristics is the main reason why they became the most popular search engine. (Not that I ever had any problems finding things with HotBot, wonder what happened to it BTW.)
I think there can easily be a technical solution. Just put a switch on every computer. If it's in UNLOCKED position you may install a new operating system, if it is in LOCKED position you may not install a new OS and the whole boot process is locked down.
I really haven't used a desktop client for email in years. Where's the gain for the user?
[snip]
What I'd really like to see is improvement in the webmail interfaces available to us.
There you go, you've already answered your question yourself. The best improvement to the webmail interfaces is a using a desktop client.
+1
I use Claws, too. No complaints. I used to use Evolution for many years, but it is too slow. Claws is fast and works.
It seems obvious that you don't listen to him, so what's the problem from your perspective? Somebody disagreeing with you?
That being said, instead of answering your question, let me rather tell you why so many people hate Stallman and rant against him. The reason is simply that he's right about most of the things he says, but people do not always like hearing the truth if it is inconvenient. With that respect he has a lot in common with Socrates...
Hey troll, like Apple or not they're addressing a glaring problem
LOL... how about a non-glaring screen instead?
Coincidentally, I just spent a long time yesterday looking for a small (=pocketable) programmable calculator versatile enough to be used for simple general purpose 'applications', and found the Casio FX-9860g Slim. It would be perfect for me, but unfortunately is sold out about everywhere in the world. :(
I know there are plenty of older retro machines like that on Ebay, but these are from the 80s and I'd like to have something more recent and faster.
Does anyone know a similar device?
I'm also looking for programmable 'electronic organizer' with PC link, but these seem to have died out as well. (Please don't suggest a smartphone, I already have one and these devices just plain suck for almost everything---no battery life, too expensive, not enough keys.)
and by indexing more material, becomes a viable competitor to Google, Bing and Yahoo in Germany.
Hardly.
They shouldn't remove it entirely.
They should display the name of the newspaper/site and put a huge black bar over the content.
No it's not a good thing. Nobody needs an upgrade of his OS every 12 months (including the people who like it). Every upgrade is a hassle and potentially creates problems. The idea is crazy and doesn't make any business sense.
Apple upgrade their OS so often in order to make hardware appear to be outdated earlier than necessary, because they still make the majority of their money with hardware sales.
It seems to me that companies who make a living off free software mostly make money from contract and support work, not from selling the software itself, which also seems to work best if the software is very complex, see e.g. AdaCore. But what about traditional, desktop `end-consumer' software? When I asked this on some newsgroup a while ago, somebody suggested to use an extremely obscure programming language (security through obscurity), so nobody else than me would understand the source anyway.
Do you have a better suggestion than writing everything in Brainf**ck? How can a small developer who makes software for everyone (as opposed to "b2b") make money with free software?
He meant that an ANN with real numbers is a hypercomputer, which is true.
The problem is that like most conceivable hypercomputers neural networks with real numbers would violate natural laws, e.g. the laws of thermodynamics.
So what? In any case tax avoidance is extremely anti-social. I will never understand why people/companies think it's okay to not contribute to a society from which the hugely benefit.
The company benefits from roads, public infrastructure, the power grid, education of workers, social securities, environmental policies, police, fireworkers, the health system, democratic laws, public places and gardens, museums and many other cultural institutions, etc., etc., and they don't want to pay back? If they like them so much, why doesn't Google put all of their servers on the Bermudas?