I wish websites would understand this. I can actually input text that is not my name or address. I don't want to click click click. I want to click, type or better yet tab then type for input. For instance, the idea of navigation is so ingrained than typing the word "pass" to get to the password features has been replaced with "search screen for place to click, now click, now click again, once more, now type".
Hrm, good question in your first point, I've only had to deploy to one device and it was tied to my dev kit.
For the second item, I think this was a contest created by NASA and there were no restrictions for tool sets. That seems okay to me as long as it's just a tech demo and never to be used in production. I think this is more of a PR stunt than anything useful. It's interesting and that draws eyeballs for PR, which apparently is NASA's second mission after exploring space.
Agreed. They won't have to. It can be loaded directly onto devices using the SDK. It doesn't need to be distributed in the traditional sense. They need the certs provided by Apple, which I assume they already have if it's working on an iPhone;-)
And now we see Google's true motivation. They had this much ->.- market share in China, so they pull out due to Moral reasons and toss the grenade over the fence to Microsoft. Microsoft, being the dip shits they are, catch the grenade and run for the end zone in their Heisman pose.
I used to run with a real gang. We used Face-Mash. the hot social networking system built around drugs, guns, and alcohol. It brought us all together to enjoy our common bond - beating people close to death, robbing, stealing, etc.
So yeah, I can see how it could be compared to Facebook.
Well I was saying that if they presented it differently perhaps my curiosity would've peaked. I have no idea what age would be appropriate to start learning math, I just want it to be more interesting to kids. It's what a committee decided the study of maths should be. IMO we need to let teachers teach again, but that's another topic. At least let them inspire kids.
I think you hit it spot on, it's not the curriculum, it's how they make it as boring as possible. I didn't enjoy math until I was actually out of public school and did that in my private life. When I picked up a Dover math book and learned the mysteries of such things as mathematical abstraction, that was exciting. At least more than learning maths verboten with no end goal in sight.
Another thing is the lack of math history being taught. Yes 1+0=1. But why? Where did zero come from? Where did numerals come from? Why was Algebra invented and where did it come from? What use is it? What about geometry? Who was Euclid? I could go on and on with fascinating topics related to math. These things are rarely answered. It's all about teaching you to understand one function, one algorithm, one technique, etc. Never to understand _why_. It downright sucks, they take all the fun out of a spectacular field. Thanks to their "teaching" me, I thought math had no room for expansion. Boy was I wrong. It's an abstract fun house where you can do whatever you dream up. To a kid, that itself should be reason enough to love any math.
You nailed it with the hash. One way hash with salt is delicious. Storing actual passwords, even encrypted (two-way), is a bust.
If they forget you reset and send the reset password to a known email address with no login credentials, you do not send them the password or the username together. It's not fool proof but it beats "guess your password and we'll let you in". Tying the user to a known email address with a reset function helps thwart this type of attack.
Well honestly I do think $700 is a lot for me. Although I make a great living, one doesn't keep his wealth by spending it frivolously. For a business it's a no-brainer, it's a great tool for the pro. But for me? It's not worth it. I'd rather just download paint.net and use the features I can get for free. But that's just my take. Obviously it's worth something to someone otherwise they'd be out of business. Don't mind me, I'm just being cantankerous.
Photoshop currently sells at a "lightweight" $700. How many photos would I have to edit to make that cost effective? It entered the land of exclusive pro tool years ago.
You know there's worse things than lying. For instance bullshit. Bullshitters don't even acknowledge that the truth is important, at least liars do that by knowingly lying. Bullshitters believe the crap they spout.
It really depends on who owns the license. If it is GPL'd by the contributor then it's within their rights to restrict usage. If on the other hand they signed ownership over to another copyright holder then it's not something one can fight really. They should have kept ownership and in turn their absolute control over the source. I might be wrong, IANAL. All I know is it depends on the owner, defined in the license. Assignment of ownership is, rightly, up to the owner.
Owning the copyright in a piece of work, whether literary or programmatic, means that you decide who can copy it, adapt it and distribute it. By default, only the owner can do these things.
All I know is this - make sure you're okay with assigning ownership to another if you contribute to any project you don't own, including an FSF one. Otherwise insist on your own copyright in the source. I can't think of any other way. That's why the GPL in the source code I've released has my name on it and not the Free Software Foundation's. But again IANAL, so go fly a kite;-).
So many apologists for China here. And their message? Well the US does it too. I guess fighting for freedom everywhere is passé.
Put aside that feeling of social guilt for just a second and think about true freedom for all humans. Now act on it.
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This is covered in the FAQ. Also, you can remove categories from the front page by personalizing it in your settings. Not trying to be snide, it helps me avoid topics I don't care about.
That being said the summary was a complete troll. They make it seem as if logical intelligent people will automatically want this bill to pass. But anyone with that intelligence realizes it's much more complicated than the black and white issue it's been spun as in the media. If they were paying attention they'd realize that the Republicans, and Fox News and their Libertarian base along with them, are sitting on the side lines watching the real fight happen inside the Democratic party as they fight over the bill. This is why "deem and pass" procedure is such a big deal. The Democrats want to move the bill forward and go into election mode because they see this bill as sapping their political energy and really pissing off the public in the meantime.
I've been saying it for a while, the negative mod function does nothing but harm to this site. I have to dig into comments because they might be nuggets of wisdom hidden by mods that down vote it for political or philosophical reasons. I think we'd be well off with just positive modifiers like interesting and insightful.
As for your post, I agree. These numbers have no context which may mean duplicates, trivial in nature, or simply unreasonable. I don't think it's a sign of anything beyond how the institution of government works. I think people see a King in Obama but he's just one man in a huge institution that is hell bent on keeping the status quo. Change will come over 100 years or in the blink of a large explosion. But it will not come in 4 years under one executive. He will make some progress, but it's gonna be a tough row to hoe.
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I wish websites would understand this. I can actually input text that is not my name or address. I don't want to click click click. I want to click, type or better yet tab then type for input. For instance, the idea of navigation is so ingrained than typing the word "pass" to get to the password features has been replaced with "search screen for place to click, now click, now click again, once more, now type".
Well in fairness it has a little bit to do with China. That whole censorship thing.
Hrm, good question in your first point, I've only had to deploy to one device and it was tied to my dev kit.
For the second item, I think this was a contest created by NASA and there were no restrictions for tool sets. That seems okay to me as long as it's just a tech demo and never to be used in production. I think this is more of a PR stunt than anything useful. It's interesting and that draws eyeballs for PR, which apparently is NASA's second mission after exploring space.
Agreed. They won't have to. It can be loaded directly onto devices using the SDK. It doesn't need to be distributed in the traditional sense. They need the certs provided by Apple, which I assume they already have if it's working on an iPhone ;-)
I did embellish I admit but the latest figures I could get were from a Google blog in March of 09 (via IResearch) and put them at 25%:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/googles-market-share-in-your-country.html
http://www.search-engine-feng-shui.com/parts-de-marche/ (in French)
Others have reported 30%-40% but I have yet to see any clear figures. If anyone has some post them, I'm kind of curious now.
And now we see Google's true motivation. They had this much ->.- market share in China, so they pull out due to Moral reasons and toss the grenade over the fence to Microsoft. Microsoft, being the dip shits they are, catch the grenade and run for the end zone in their Heisman pose.
I used to run with a real gang. We used Face-Mash. the hot social networking system built around drugs, guns, and alcohol. It brought us all together to enjoy our common bond - beating people close to death, robbing, stealing, etc.
So yeah, I can see how it could be compared to Facebook.
Well I was saying that if they presented it differently perhaps my curiosity would've peaked. I have no idea what age would be appropriate to start learning math, I just want it to be more interesting to kids. It's what a committee decided the study of maths should be. IMO we need to let teachers teach again, but that's another topic. At least let them inspire kids.
Verbatim also. Verboten? Well it should be.
I think you hit it spot on, it's not the curriculum, it's how they make it as boring as possible. I didn't enjoy math until I was actually out of public school and did that in my private life. When I picked up a Dover math book and learned the mysteries of such things as mathematical abstraction, that was exciting. At least more than learning maths verboten with no end goal in sight.
Another thing is the lack of math history being taught. Yes 1+0=1. But why? Where did zero come from? Where did numerals come from? Why was Algebra invented and where did it come from? What use is it? What about geometry? Who was Euclid? I could go on and on with fascinating topics related to math. These things are rarely answered. It's all about teaching you to understand one function, one algorithm, one technique, etc. Never to understand _why_. It downright sucks, they take all the fun out of a spectacular field. Thanks to their "teaching" me, I thought math had no room for expansion. Boy was I wrong. It's an abstract fun house where you can do whatever you dream up. To a kid, that itself should be reason enough to love any math.
You nailed it with the hash. One way hash with salt is delicious. Storing actual passwords, even encrypted (two-way), is a bust.
If they forget you reset and send the reset password to a known email address with no login credentials, you do not send them the password or the username together. It's not fool proof but it beats "guess your password and we'll let you in". Tying the user to a known email address with a reset function helps thwart this type of attack.
This is bullshit! This article is from today, it's not supposed to be posted here until earliest Friday and more likely by Sunday.
Do not comment! It will be posted again tomorrow anyway and your words will be forgotten. Or better yet I'll steal all the witty ones.
Well honestly I do think $700 is a lot for me. Although I make a great living, one doesn't keep his wealth by spending it frivolously. For a business it's a no-brainer, it's a great tool for the pro. But for me? It's not worth it. I'd rather just download paint.net and use the features I can get for free. But that's just my take. Obviously it's worth something to someone otherwise they'd be out of business. Don't mind me, I'm just being cantankerous.
Photoshop currently sells at a "lightweight" $700. How many photos would I have to edit to make that cost effective? It entered the land of exclusive pro tool years ago.
Oh come on mods. Even I, the Lord of Curmudgeon and Admiral of the Irascible and Cantankerous, laughed at that one.
Yup, i'm going for a word score.
Slow down Tex. We'll need a credit check and a sample of your DNA first.
Exactly. So when they get into a terrible car accident while driving down the GW parkway..
You know there's worse things than lying. For instance bullshit. Bullshitters don't even acknowledge that the truth is important, at least liars do that by knowingly lying. Bullshitters believe the crap they spout.
Man I wish people called me Lord Havoc in conversation. That sounds sweet as hell.
Who you calling?
Lord Havoc.
Oh my.
It really depends on who owns the license. If it is GPL'd by the contributor then it's within their rights to restrict usage. If on the other hand they signed ownership over to another copyright holder then it's not something one can fight really. They should have kept ownership and in turn their absolute control over the source. I might be wrong, IANAL. All I know is it depends on the owner, defined in the license. Assignment of ownership is, rightly, up to the owner.
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/iprguide.xml
Owning the copyright in a piece of work, whether literary or programmatic, means that you decide who can copy it, adapt it and distribute it. By default, only the owner can do these things.
All I know is this - make sure you're okay with assigning ownership to another if you contribute to any project you don't own, including an FSF one. Otherwise insist on your own copyright in the source. I can't think of any other way. That's why the GPL in the source code I've released has my name on it and not the Free Software Foundation's. But again IANAL, so go fly a kite ;-).
So many apologists for China here. And their message? Well the US does it too. I guess fighting for freedom everywhere is passé.
Put aside that feeling of social guilt for just a second and think about true freedom for all humans. Now act on it.
This is covered in the FAQ. Also, you can remove categories from the front page by personalizing it in your settings. Not trying to be snide, it helps me avoid topics I don't care about.
That being said the summary was a complete troll. They make it seem as if logical intelligent people will automatically want this bill to pass. But anyone with that intelligence realizes it's much more complicated than the black and white issue it's been spun as in the media. If they were paying attention they'd realize that the Republicans, and Fox News and their Libertarian base along with them, are sitting on the side lines watching the real fight happen inside the Democratic party as they fight over the bill. This is why "deem and pass" procedure is such a big deal. The Democrats want to move the bill forward and go into election mode because they see this bill as sapping their political energy and really pissing off the public in the meantime.
In other news - Did you guys hear Corey Haim died?
I've been saying it for a while, the negative mod function does nothing but harm to this site. I have to dig into comments because they might be nuggets of wisdom hidden by mods that down vote it for political or philosophical reasons. I think we'd be well off with just positive modifiers like interesting and insightful.
As for your post, I agree. These numbers have no context which may mean duplicates, trivial in nature, or simply unreasonable. I don't think it's a sign of anything beyond how the institution of government works. I think people see a King in Obama but he's just one man in a huge institution that is hell bent on keeping the status quo. Change will come over 100 years or in the blink of a large explosion. But it will not come in 4 years under one executive. He will make some progress, but it's gonna be a tough row to hoe.
I post by default at +2, but give it time :-)