From TFA, the quote is that Gore "took the initiative in creating the Internet." There are some subtle differences between "invent" and "create," but that is taking credit for the Internet's existence however it is spun or counterspun.
If God didn't know that Eve was going to eat the apple, then he's not omniscient. It makes no sense to talk about someone having free will in the context of an omniscient being.
The test is designed to check standard compliance. Test suites like Plum Hall, a C compiler validation suite, may generate code that programmers are unlikely to ever write--but that doesn't matter, because when you write a C compiler, you're implicitly promising to conform to the language standard, and if you don't, your compiler is broken. Similarly, a web browser that doesn't conform to the standards is broken. and people should no more be willing to put up with that than programmers are willing to put up with compilers that generate bad code.
The converse of "p implies q" is "q implies p". The contrapositive of "p implies q" is "(not q) implies (not p)". An implication is equivalent to its contrapositive (both reduce to "(not p) or q"), but not to its converse.
Attack of the Show would be an embarrassment to a local cable access channel. Lame hosts with delusions of talent and comedy, pointless sketches, lame guests (Tom Green leaps to mind), and the closest I've seen them come to actual tech content is shoving a (fortunately small) web server up someone's posterior. As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.
Well, they at least have a minyan now...
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...because I've grabbed a copy to try out.
Unlike Opera 7, I can actually find the various settings, and it at least seems to be very fast. Lacking ad blocking, though (not the ads that the free version of the browser puts on screen, which are fairly unobtrusive and that I'm willing to live with, but the ones we all know and hate), will keep me on Firefox.
I doubt this move will have any influence on ATI or Nvidia to open things up but we can always hope...
Well...I don't know about you, but I'm about to write ATI and nVidia letting them know that as soon as the open source drivers come out, I'm dumping my ATI and nVidia graphics cards, switching to hardware from people who fully support Open Source, and recommending to anyone who asks me that they do the same.
If enough people do that, perhaps ATI and nVidia will pay attention.
Apologies for redundancy, but my experience is like that of others. It just works. I've been using Fedora Core on most of my computers, and first Mandrake and then Gentoo on another, but Ubuntu has worked out so well when I've tried it that I'm switching all but my wife's computer, and probably will do that too after the rest of them are switched.
Fedora is nice...but OTOH, RPM operations are insanely slow for some reason. apt-get/synaptic on Ubuntu (and probably on Debian-based distros in general, I would think) flies in comparison.
One more thing about criminalizing spam that makes me uncomfortable is the whole free speech thing. Sure, it's speech that most of the time we don't want to hear, but if I send mass emails from my own machines without breaking into anything and without defrauding anyone, should I go to jail for this?
You can't send mass unsolicited emails without defrauding someone. Spamming is like making mass telemarketing calls... collect, so that the people at the other end have no way not to pay for them.
It will take a big shift in attitudes (or Microsoft forcing the user to jump though hoops) to make many home users have anything but admin-privilege accounts.
Yup. A while back an acquaintance was having a lot of problems with a Windows box. I don't recall how the issue was settled, but at one point, when the possibility of a virus was under discussion, I said in passing "you do run without administrator privileges except when absolutely necessary, right?" and got a mildly huffy response that by golly, she knew what she was doing...
In this regard, I have an itch that I hope to one day scratch.
To be honest, I can't do either of the two things that I ought to be able to do:
1. Given a hunk of HTML/CSS, know without feeding it to a browser what is right.
2. Given something I want to look a certain way, know what HTML/CSS is needed to get what I want.
What someone needs to write is an expert system that renders HTML, so that you can ask it questions: "Why does X overlap Y?" and get answers in terms of the standard: "Because X and Y [whatever the reason is]...(see the Blah standard, section X.Y.Z, and the Mumble standard, section P.Q.R)."
Even if I fail to produce the program, I ought to learn HTML and CSS in the process of trying to write it, right?
My only question is...um, why the fuck not? Even Apple's Safari is already plunging ahead with preliminary CSS3 support.
Because standard conformance is a loss for MS. The more lazy and incompetent web page creators they can keep making non-standard conforming, IE-only web sites, the better for MS.
I took a look at the web site, and clicked on the "buy" link. There's no way that I can just buy Nero for Linux. Either they haven't updated their web site completely, or they want to make me buy Nero for Windows in order to get Nero for Linux.
That, as Milton Friedman would say, distorts the commmunication that one's purchases constitute in a free market. I don't want Nero for Windows--I don't use Windows (save at work, under duress). I have no use for Nero for Windows...but there's no way I can communicate that to Nero with my money, the way they have it set up.
Who, aside from perhaps RMS, is calling MS evil for trying to make money? A business can be successful and ethical. People call MS evil for doing evil things in order to make money, e.g. fraud (Windows testing for the presence of DR-DOS and emitting a FUD-generating warning message).
If, OTOH, you consider any action that makes money good, our ethical notions differ too much for meaningful discussion.
Perhaps - or when Linux software companies start picking up the slack for them and putting much more effort into maintaining third-party drivers for the hardware in every major manufacturer's machines.
And they can do this, when the manufacturers refuse to provide the information needed to write drivers, how?
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The episode that had to do with the guy who claimed he had a proof of Riemann's Hypothesis was, I thought, handled pretty well.
From TFA, the quote is that Gore "took the initiative in creating the Internet." There are some subtle differences between "invent" and "create," but that is taking credit for the Internet's existence however it is spun or counterspun.
If God didn't know that Eve was going to eat the apple, then he's not omniscient. It makes no sense to talk about someone having free will in the context of an omniscient being.
The test is designed to check standard compliance. Test suites like Plum Hall, a C compiler validation suite, may generate code that programmers are unlikely to ever write--but that doesn't matter, because when you write a C compiler, you're implicitly promising to conform to the language standard, and if you don't, your compiler is broken. Similarly, a web browser that doesn't conform to the standards is broken. and people should no more be willing to put up with that than programmers are willing to put up with compilers that generate bad code.
Oops! You're right.
For the record...
The converse of "p implies q" is "q implies p". The contrapositive of "p implies q" is "(not q) implies (not p)". An implication is equivalent to its contrapositive (both reduce to "(not p) or q"), but not to its converse.
This is very good news.
Attack of the Show would be an embarrassment to a local cable access channel. Lame hosts with delusions of talent and comedy, pointless sketches, lame guests (Tom Green leaps to mind), and the closest I've seen them come to actual tech content is shoving a (fortunately small) web server up someone's posterior. As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.
That's the converse. The contrapositive is, after a quick application of de Morgan's law:
"If it doesn't come to tears, then you didn't pick a good technology or your developers are sane."
...Hp printers of the ink variety...
What other kind of printers are there?
...because I've grabbed a copy to try out.
Unlike Opera 7, I can actually find the various settings, and it at least seems to be very fast. Lacking ad blocking, though (not the ads that the free version of the browser puts on screen, which are fairly unobtrusive and that I'm willing to live with, but the ones we all know and hate), will keep me on Firefox.
I doubt this move will have any influence on ATI or Nvidia to open things up but we can always hope...
Well...I don't know about you, but I'm about to write ATI and nVidia letting them know that as soon as the open source drivers come out, I'm dumping my ATI and nVidia graphics cards, switching to hardware from people who fully support Open Source, and recommending to anyone who asks me that they do the same.
If enough people do that, perhaps ATI and nVidia will pay attention.
Apologies for redundancy, but my experience is like that of others. It just works. I've been using Fedora Core on most of my computers, and first Mandrake and then Gentoo on another, but Ubuntu has worked out so well when I've tried it that I'm switching all but my wife's computer, and probably will do that too after the rest of them are switched.
Fedora is nice...but OTOH, RPM operations are insanely slow for some reason. apt-get/synaptic on Ubuntu (and probably on Debian-based distros in general, I would think) flies in comparison.
One more thing about criminalizing spam that makes me uncomfortable is the whole free speech thing. Sure, it's speech that most of the time we don't want to hear, but if I send mass emails from my own machines without breaking into anything and without defrauding anyone, should I go to jail for this?
You can't send mass unsolicited emails without defrauding someone. Spamming is like making mass telemarketing calls... collect, so that the people at the other end have no way not to pay for them.
It will take a big shift in attitudes (or Microsoft forcing the user to jump though hoops) to make many home users have anything but admin-privilege accounts.
Yup. A while back an acquaintance was having a lot of problems with a Windows box. I don't recall how the issue was settled, but at one point, when the possibility of a virus was under discussion, I said in passing "you do run without administrator privileges except when absolutely necessary, right?" and got a mildly huffy response that by golly, she knew what she was doing...
Hear, hear! I think she'd be perfect as Hippolyta, and it would be a neat tribute, or tip o' the tiara if you will.
In this regard, I have an itch that I hope to one day scratch.
To be honest, I can't do either of the two things that I ought to be able to do:
1. Given a hunk of HTML/CSS, know without feeding it to a browser what is right.
2. Given something I want to look a certain way, know what HTML/CSS is needed to get what I want.
What someone needs to write is an expert system that renders HTML, so that you can ask it questions: "Why does X overlap Y?" and get answers in terms of the standard: "Because X and Y [whatever the reason is]...(see the Blah standard, section X.Y.Z, and the Mumble standard, section P.Q.R)."
Even if I fail to produce the program, I ought to learn HTML and CSS in the process of trying to write it, right?
I was just illustrating that having parallel platforms stagnates progress.
So, if AMD gave up, we'd all be better off?
Lack of competition is what stagnates progress.
My only question is...um, why the fuck not? Even Apple's Safari is already plunging ahead with preliminary CSS3 support.
Because standard conformance is a loss for MS. The more lazy and incompetent web page creators they can keep making non-standard conforming, IE-only web sites, the better for MS.
"Rincon" is Spanish for "corner."
I took a look at the web site, and clicked on the "buy" link. There's no way that I can just buy Nero for Linux. Either they haven't updated their web site completely, or they want to make me buy Nero for Windows in order to get Nero for Linux.
That, as Milton Friedman would say, distorts the commmunication that one's purchases constitute in a free market. I don't want Nero for Windows--I don't use Windows (save at work, under duress). I have no use for Nero for Windows...but there's no way I can communicate that to Nero with my money, the way they have it set up.
I dare say the people who put together this neat hack would refer to Heath Robinson rather than Rube Goldberg when characterizing their work.
I hope the parent is moderated up as far as possible, but I am depressed to think that someone thinks of it as funny.
...what is the penalty in Australia for committing suicide?
Who, aside from perhaps RMS, is calling MS evil for trying to make money? A business can be successful and ethical. People call MS evil for doing evil things in order to make money, e.g. fraud (Windows testing for the presence of DR-DOS and emitting a FUD-generating warning message).
If, OTOH, you consider any action that makes money good, our ethical notions differ too much for meaningful discussion.
Perhaps - or when Linux software companies start picking up the slack for them and putting much more effort into maintaining third-party drivers for the hardware in every major manufacturer's machines.
And they can do this, when the manufacturers refuse to provide the information needed to write drivers, how?