What does the Indian Rationalists Society have to say about this?
Actually take heart, this kind of absurdity usually means the mumbo jumbo is already on the downward edge of credibility, otherwise it wouldnt even be in this fight.
Use names that don't reflect any meaning, this is usually the safest way.
This applies to any graph where there is no obvious master/slave, server/client, upstream/downstream, initiator/follower relationship, ie. the relationship depends on a momentary viewpoint.
Use 'Ken' and 'Barby' if you like:) Or since you probably have to sell it to morons on higher pay, pick something more conservative. Even colours can work, eg. Red and Green - good enough for Prolog and Quarks!:)
Really beginning to think that sample sizes around the 1000 mark are far too small for *any* study's results to be statistically valid anymore, in this modern age.
What part of this Supreme Law do they not understand? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers[data], and effects[cellphones], against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things [phones] to be seized." It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the British Writ of Assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, during the 1760s and 70s and their use forbidden in 1776 when the Colonies declared themselves independent States.
Cellphones should not be searchable until a police officer stands before a judge and obtains a warrant, and swears an oath that he, the officer, is telling the truth (and punishable with Perjury if not).
Here in my "sick joke of a country" as an SF author called Oz, we are extremely jealous of the fact you guys have a Bill Of Rights.
And also, I wonder if they could get away with mixing other 'franchises' into the Alien universe, eg. Predator(s) ?
Nah, I don't think they'd work either, in this coke-riddled hollywood era anything could happen - god imagine if they tried to do a sequel to the Matrix! or a 4th Indiana Jones film!
There is no way you could trust them not to just fill them with gratuitous CG, ridiculous storylines and a More! Bigger! Better! overload of crapness.
Nope, its really better to move on and do something original, the risks involved in the care and handling of precious movie milestones are far too high.
Where does this leave/put ClamWin then? I stopped using ClamWin because of the rising False Positives count, but then discovered all anti-virus manufacturers were suffering the same thing: the shitness of Windows.
Nowadays I just cautiously install and re-image from a backup every now and again.
A good free scanner would be good if the reliability is there (again).
We can safely conclude these are all rendering problems in Firefox itself - it has a few known bugs, eg. in the layout engine. You STILL cannot print across frames or iframes from Firefox and they refuse to fix it (its obviously impossible since they haven't done it by now, indicating m$ level of spaghettiness internally).
But lets face it, FF is reaching the end of its lifespan anyway, its annoyances are starting to outpace its flexibility and MY GOD ITS SLOW. Even on hardcore graphics acceleration on a fast multicore machine its a crawler.
Ok I'm relieved. I was a lot more worried about Manning than Assange as the latter has 'media protection'.
Btw - if you want to donate to Wikileaks use Money Transfer. I am assuming (naively) that as a result of their respective actions, Amazon are going to go out of business, and PayPal, VISA and MasterCard are going to suddenly find themselves in a small, deep, ocean of competitors with a pre-built customer base.
I don't think we can get rid of all the idiots in our governments in time to save ourselves.
And I used to NOT be a doomsayer, I was sure we'd get through this.
But we are watching a (an almost beautifully classic) chaotic system do what chaotic systems - those with strange attractors - do.
Temperature rise, acidic oceans, warm oceans powering giant storms, upset ocean currents causing droughts here and floods/freezes there, melting sea ice introducing more liquid water into the system, melting land ice slowly raising ocean levels - these are all parameters. In a chaotic system, one never knows when the right (wrong) parameter will be pushed just that bit too far and the system will jump to a new stable attractor. One we probably won't like.
* Profitability is his, or the owner's, problem, NOT yours - your job is to DO THE WORK and NOTHING MORE.
* Starting with a list of features is the best way to kill a product. Instead, keep 'NO FEATURES' uppermost in your mind. Obviously you can't write something with NO features - its purely an abstract goal but its a valuable one.
Instead of features - DESIGN. And prototyping - write test versions, make them work, analyse the mistakes and misconceptions, throw it away and write it again. This cycle gets quicker and quicker.
What customers want primarily (ignore Features, they will come, but add them slowwwwly, dont be GNOME and stuff everything up) are:
* RELIABILITY - ABOVE ALL - If it crashes they will walk
* EASE OF USE - It doesnt have to be perfect, it just has to have an interface that is learnable in a short time - the interface may have nothing to do with how the engine works too - don't be a Steinberg and make the mistake of assuming the users care how the interals are organized - they don't and shouldn't have to (most of the time)
Long hours will just cause resentment and everyone will leave and the company will collapse. Thats how it always goes. That kind of rabbit mentality only works for tiny companies of 3 or 4 people where they are all old highschool friends and knew what they were getting into. That doesn't apply here.
Doesn't any non-mocking mention of Ayn Rand automatically invalidate any and all arguments you may make in perpetuity?
I was pretty sure that was a rule.
But on topic - its nice for people to be getting these rants out, now we are over the 80s (30 years late) and not everything has to be 'cool' it can be pleasantly airy and abstract again and not get shot down.
I don't actually agree with a lot of his points, but for once: I don't really mind.:)
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I had more hopes for New Meeheco than this.
I'm sorry, that's it.
America over.
The end.
Yup, seconded.
What does the Indian Rationalists Society have to say about this?
Actually take heart, this kind of absurdity usually means the mumbo jumbo is already on the downward edge of credibility, otherwise it wouldnt even be in this fight.
They basically argued that for something to be "free as in speech", it has to NOT be "free, as in beer".
There are plenty of other people who feel this way, like the **AAs, the BSA, the AAP etc.
It's time for big business to realize that capitalism does not require anyone to give you money for your offerings.
Could not agree more - thank you.
They also need to stop pretending that money they didn't make is "lost" money, when the truth is that it was never theirs to begin with.
.....porn writer. Oh! I must not be a geek after all! YEEEEHAAAAA!!!!!
Gotta admit, I didnt find the criticism any particularly more worthy than the speculation.
..... like hydrogen? Ok I'll go read the article.
Use names that don't reflect any meaning, this is usually the safest way.
:) Or since you probably have to sell it to morons on higher pay, pick something more conservative. Even colours can work, eg. Red and Green - good enough for Prolog and Quarks! :)
This applies to any graph where there is no obvious master/slave, server/client, upstream/downstream, initiator/follower relationship, ie. the relationship depends on a momentary viewpoint.
Use 'Ken' and 'Barby' if you like
Really beginning to think that sample sizes around the 1000 mark are far too small for *any* study's results to be statistically valid anymore, in this modern age.
There are so many interconnected traits now.
GoodLuckWithThat - any further questions?
Um, sorry to be the bore at the party but..... Linux has a working security model.
I know m$ have worked hard to make everyone forget that they don't, but there it is.
So while Windows CE dies a death along with Symbian, its pretty much a case of GoodLuckWithThat to these guys as far as the other OS's go.
Apps (and stupid things like Ruby and Java) can be exploited, but they can also be restarted, locked down, and fixed, whereas m$'s crashware can't.
QED really.
Ballmer just keeps getting funnier and funnier.
His no doubt overworked shrink should recommend he does (more) stand-up as therapy!
What part of this Supreme Law do they not understand? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers[data], and effects[cellphones], against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things [phones] to be seized." It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the British Writ of Assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, during the 1760s and 70s and their use forbidden in 1776 when the Colonies declared themselves independent States.
Cellphones should not be searchable until a police officer stands before a judge and obtains a warrant, and swears an oath that he, the officer, is telling the truth (and punishable with Perjury if not).
Here in my "sick joke of a country" as an SF author called Oz, we are extremely jealous of the fact you guys have a Bill Of Rights.
No, they shouldn't. Any further questions?
Or, you know, it could be that people with mental problems also have a predisposition to become video game addicts.
Seconded. Man there has been a serious outbreak of crap correlations and pseudoscience like this article lately.
I microwaved my FuckedBook some time ago.
Set everything to false information and left it that way for a while till it was baked.
Since I had moved house and some other details had changed too, the timing was very opportune.
Picking the apps off was a slow process, they are worse than lice.
Then I deleted everything.
Then I dug through the instructions and told the account to delete itself.
Several months (yes months, as in those things with 4 weeks in them) later, I checked on it and it was indeed dead.
The data is archived somewhere in Fuckedbook's vaults but at least it is misleading and noisy now, and not accessible to the outside world.
If you insist on using that piece of garbage javascript monstrosity, then I strongly urge you to falsify all information on it. Including photographs.
Will they ever make a sequel to Aliens?
And also, I wonder if they could get away with mixing other 'franchises' into the Alien universe, eg. Predator(s) ?
Nah, I don't think they'd work either, in this coke-riddled hollywood era anything could happen - god imagine if they tried to do a sequel to the Matrix! or a 4th Indiana Jones film!
There is no way you could trust them not to just fill them with gratuitous CG, ridiculous storylines and a More! Bigger! Better! overload of crapness.
Nope, its really better to move on and do something original, the risks involved in the care and handling of precious movie milestones are far too high.
Where does this leave/put ClamWin then? I stopped using ClamWin because of the rising False Positives count, but then discovered all anti-virus manufacturers were suffering the same thing: the shitness of Windows.
Nowadays I just cautiously install and re-image from a backup every now and again.
A good free scanner would be good if the reliability is there (again).
....or any of those other terrible golden ghetto hacks their opinion. At least Heinlein is dead thank gawd.
OpenGL on Linux is rock solid.
We can safely conclude these are all rendering problems in Firefox itself - it has a few known bugs, eg. in the layout engine. You STILL cannot print across frames or iframes from Firefox and they refuse to fix it (its obviously impossible since they haven't done it by now, indicating m$ level of spaghettiness internally).
But lets face it, FF is reaching the end of its lifespan anyway, its annoyances are starting to outpace its flexibility and MY GOD ITS SLOW. Even on hardcore graphics acceleration on a fast multicore machine its a crawler.
RapidShare, SHOOTS BACK, PUNK
Ok I'm relieved. I was a lot more worried about Manning than Assange as the latter has 'media protection'.
Btw - if you want to donate to Wikileaks use Money Transfer. I am assuming (naively) that as a result of their respective actions, Amazon are going to go out of business, and PayPal, VISA and MasterCard are going to suddenly find themselves in a small, deep, ocean of competitors with a pre-built customer base.
I don't think we can get rid of all the idiots in our governments in time to save ourselves.
And I used to NOT be a doomsayer, I was sure we'd get through this.
But we are watching a (an almost beautifully classic) chaotic system do what chaotic systems - those with strange attractors - do.
Temperature rise, acidic oceans, warm oceans powering giant storms, upset ocean currents causing droughts here and floods/freezes there, melting sea ice introducing more liquid water into the system, melting land ice slowly raising ocean levels - these are all parameters. In a chaotic system, one never knows when the right (wrong) parameter will be pushed just that bit too far and the system will jump to a new stable attractor. One we probably won't like.
G.F.'d!!! is the first reaction I'd have.
But this is classic on too many fronts:
* Profitability is his, or the owner's, problem, NOT yours - your job is to DO THE WORK and NOTHING MORE.
* Starting with a list of features is the best way to kill a product. Instead, keep 'NO FEATURES' uppermost in your mind. Obviously you can't write something with NO features - its purely an abstract goal but its a valuable one.
Instead of features - DESIGN. And prototyping - write test versions, make them work, analyse the mistakes and misconceptions, throw it away and write it again. This cycle gets quicker and quicker.
What customers want primarily (ignore Features, they will come, but add them slowwwwly, dont be GNOME and stuff everything up) are:
* RELIABILITY - ABOVE ALL - If it crashes they will walk
* EASE OF USE - It doesnt have to be perfect, it just has to have an interface that is learnable in a short time - the interface may have nothing to do with how the engine works too - don't be a Steinberg and make the mistake of assuming the users care how the interals are organized - they don't and shouldn't have to (most of the time)
Long hours will just cause resentment and everyone will leave and the company will collapse. Thats how it always goes. That kind of rabbit mentality only works for tiny companies of 3 or 4 people where they are all old highschool friends and knew what they were getting into. That doesn't apply here.
Doesn't any non-mocking mention of Ayn Rand automatically invalidate any and all arguments you may make in perpetuity?
:)
I was pretty sure that was a rule.
But on topic - its nice for people to be getting these rants out, now we are over the 80s (30 years late) and not everything has to be 'cool' it can be pleasantly airy and abstract again and not get shot down.
I don't actually agree with a lot of his points, but for once: I don't really mind.