Your analogy doesn't even make sense; those protocols are nothing like desktop environments. Also KDE, gnome, XFCE, etc. all have been quite "usable" for some time now, so I don't see the point in consolidating the work. And it's not as if it's difficult to write desktop-environment-agnostic GUI apps. Anyway I just don't see the point of your argument.
I use XFCE and don't really have a reason to switch to gnome or KDE. I mean I can't really imagine what I'm missing, except that I'm sure those two are slightly prettier than XFCE. It bothers me not having an idea of what my computer is actually doing.
because believe it or not, this is quite the international crowd here, and it's equally possible that the insensitive comments that you are finding were posted by non-Americans like yourself. Or wait do "you guys" only get to post self-indulgent, self-important tripe like the above?
I'm not impressed by your silly self-righteousness or your pretentious angst, and I'm sure now that you've spit all that out you won't need to give this little quake in China another passing thought. How nice for you.
I was about to post, encouraging people to write the author of that column, but the idea struck me: what if there was an open source "community" for ideas?... and that's when I realized that that is pretty much how the patent system was originally meant to function.
There should be a website where people can make known to the world their ideas. At least might that act as some prior art and save an idea or two from the patent trolls?
Everyone is sure that Iran doesn't have the ability to create a nuclear weapon right now. It couldn't have enriched enough uranium finely enough at this point. At least that is what TFA suggests.
I should have elaborated on my point about sheet music. What I meant when I said the classical music world would stop functioning is that we would never be able to make copies for page turns, musicians would need to purchase multiple copies of repertoire to give a copy to the judges of competitions, music education would stagnate, it would be difficult to obtain music for orchestral auditions (consisting of excerpts from many orchestral parts: there are excerpt books available, but none are sufficient), etc., etc.
Now, on the other hand, when an orchestra, say, wants to perform a work that is a rental they would of course rent it from the publishing house, but few classical works require that, the way it works in theater. I'm not sure why there is the difference. I've never heard of having to pay a license fee to perform a composition.
That's not really how orchestral musicians are hired. But you're right, I guess this whole "orchestra" thing will never work out, what with the hopelessness of us all "trying to do the same thing at the same time".
When it comes to contemporary repertoire, the more "robotic" the conductor, the better the performance. What a terrible generalization. Have you ever seen Boulez conduct? Mahler was extremely specific about what he desired in his music; should a conductor be likewise robotic when conducting his symphonies?
A conductor must have the same skills regardless of the era of the music being performed: he must have an incredible full understanding of the score, the ability to find and keep proper tempi through changes in tempo and meter, and the ability to accurately communicate the relevant bits of his understanding of the score to the relevant players on the fly, among many other things.
In fact, unless this robot is capable of following the orchestra to a certain degree, it would be quite odd, possibly challenging to play under it.
Nice to hear those words of respect for classical music. As a classical musician myself I would have to say that I think your fears that the art would not survive without copyright are needless. In fact I think of any genre mine would be the most immune from, say, a copyright abolition (following the great slahdotter-led coup d'etat)
Classical musicians make their money from live performances; they play in orchestras, or string quartets, or are highly sought-after solo performers. Others simply freelance. Most everyone teaches unless they both don't have to and don't want to. Many of even the best orchestras in the world only release recordings very infrequently, and even broadcast live concerts, in many cases every week. Even the few soloists with the biggest names, whose CDs fill the classical music sections at borders, are performing artists whose careers are about playing for people.
Hell, look at the sheet music we play from, which is regularly copied and distributed, all in violation of copyright. In fact despite the stink that music publishers make about copyright, the classical music world would basically stop functioning if everyone stopped violating copyright.
I agree with most of your points, but I can also identify with your parent post. I worry that the linux desktop will become less and less configurable, the internals less documented. I want to be able to understand what is happening on my operating system, and to play with things and tinker. I hope that the two scenarios can live in harmony as you say.
so are you saying that this bill is actually an attempt to make elections MORE HONEST? Let's stick to the rules, guys: if you name the bill the "Secure Elections Act", I expect it to be an Orwellian attempt to deliver all state control to the shadowy members of the PNAC.
Not sure where you or he are coming from. At my school (a conservatory in the States) I've taken an entire semester course on twentieth-century analysis techniques, and a semester course entirely devoted to 20th music history (the focus being on Art Music as it grew from the European tradition, although the distinctions necessarily get blurred). And of course we all regularly perform, hear and study 20th century works.
Interesting. I haven't checked out Dell's site, but this could very well be an example of the age-old technique of hiding the less expensive options from someone who is willing to pay more (there's a name for this, I'm sure). Used in everything from airline ticket pricing to starbucks' secret "short" size cappucino (I even read somewhere that it used to be common for passenger train cars to be roofless, just so everyone who could afford to would buy costlier tickets in the covered sections).
Perhaps in this case what they are thinking is "we don't want to encourage this whole linux thing because it will alienate MS, we'll maybe lose a little money, but we want the business of people who coming looking for linux pre-installed".
It'll be the last invention anybody ever has to make. Odds are that we are that we are all right now just computer-simulated AI entities in a vast "ancient ancestor simulation" created by the lifeforms that we believe we will become in several hundred million years. In fact we may be simulations created by simulations created by simulations. If this seems unlikely, consider that any creature with the capability of creating such a simulation logically would do so in order to learn about it's past, maybe even for fun (imagine another parallel universe in some future-hacker's basement).
Assuming that such a simulation is not a logical impossibility, and that there is not an insurmountable barrier to intelligence, (and a few other things) it becomes far more likely that we don't even exist.
I was confused by that too. If someone were actually 'driving by' and came upon an unsecured WAP they could do a hell of a lot more than divert requests to a website. Hell, you could re-flash the router with a linux-based firmware like OpenWRT and basically own their intern3tz. e.g. run a sniffer that logs all interesting traffic to a remote SSH filesystem.
There was some confusion over at Reddit yesterday as to whether the database actually had been wiped or if it was simply overloaded from all the crazy querying. It started when someone posted a link to the riaa site that had an XKCD comic superimposed via a XSS attack. The site was also basically DOSed at some points from all the reddit/digg traffic.
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Your analogy doesn't even make sense; those protocols are nothing like desktop environments. Also KDE, gnome, XFCE, etc. all have been quite "usable" for some time now, so I don't see the point in consolidating the work. And it's not as if it's difficult to write desktop-environment-agnostic GUI apps. Anyway I just don't see the point of your argument.
I use XFCE and don't really have a reason to switch to gnome or KDE. I mean I can't really imagine what I'm missing, except that I'm sure those two are slightly prettier than XFCE. It bothers me not having an idea of what my computer is actually doing.
I for one plan on setting my wallpaper to a certain well-known picture of a man's distended anus.
"Of course, I'd be happy to enter my password!"
"Don't breathe the dust: it's pure evil!"
because believe it or not, this is quite the international crowd here, and it's equally possible that the insensitive comments that you are finding were posted by non-Americans like yourself. Or wait do "you guys" only get to post self-indulgent, self-important tripe like the above?
I'm not impressed by your silly self-righteousness or your pretentious angst, and I'm sure now that you've spit all that out you won't need to give this little quake in China another passing thought. How nice for you.
But seriously, is anyone else surprised at how BIG that figure makes wikipedia look? Can that be right?
I was about to post, encouraging people to write the author of that column, but the idea struck me: what if there was an open source "community" for ideas?... and that's when I realized that that is pretty much how the patent system was originally meant to function.
There should be a website where people can make known to the world their ideas. At least might that act as some prior art and save an idea or two from the patent trolls?
Does anyone see what the possibility of supporting the ELPH/IXUS compact flash cameras? I have an old S200.
Everyone is sure that Iran doesn't have the ability to create a nuclear weapon right now. It couldn't have enriched enough uranium finely enough at this point. At least that is what TFA suggests.
I should have elaborated on my point about sheet music. What I meant when I said the classical music world would stop functioning is that we would never be able to make copies for page turns, musicians would need to purchase multiple copies of repertoire to give a copy to the judges of competitions, music education would stagnate, it would be difficult to obtain music for orchestral auditions (consisting of excerpts from many orchestral parts: there are excerpt books available, but none are sufficient), etc., etc.
Now, on the other hand, when an orchestra, say, wants to perform a work that is a rental they would of course rent it from the publishing house, but few classical works require that, the way it works in theater. I'm not sure why there is the difference. I've never heard of having to pay a license fee to perform a composition.
That's not really how orchestral musicians are hired. But you're right, I guess this whole "orchestra" thing will never work out, what with the hopelessness of us all "trying to do the same thing at the same time".
A conductor must have the same skills regardless of the era of the music being performed: he must have an incredible full understanding of the score, the ability to find and keep proper tempi through changes in tempo and meter, and the ability to accurately communicate the relevant bits of his understanding of the score to the relevant players on the fly, among many other things.
In fact, unless this robot is capable of following the orchestra to a certain degree, it would be quite odd, possibly challenging to play under it.
Nice to hear those words of respect for classical music. As a classical musician myself I would have to say that I think your fears that the art would not survive without copyright are needless. In fact I think of any genre mine would be the most immune from, say, a copyright abolition (following the great slahdotter-led coup d'etat)
Classical musicians make their money from live performances; they play in orchestras, or string quartets, or are highly sought-after solo performers. Others simply freelance. Most everyone teaches unless they both don't have to and don't want to. Many of even the best orchestras in the world only release recordings very infrequently, and even broadcast live concerts, in many cases every week. Even the few soloists with the biggest names, whose CDs fill the classical music sections at borders, are performing artists whose careers are about playing for people.
Hell, look at the sheet music we play from, which is regularly copied and distributed, all in violation of copyright. In fact despite the stink that music publishers make about copyright, the classical music world would basically stop functioning if everyone stopped violating copyright.
getting all those glitches in on time for release.
I agree with most of your points, but I can also identify with your parent post. I worry that the linux desktop will become less and less configurable, the internals less documented. I want to be able to understand what is happening on my operating system, and to play with things and tinker. I hope that the two scenarios can live in harmony as you say.
Unfortunately for the truly 1337, ed has no spellchecker.
so are you saying that this bill is actually an attempt to make elections MORE HONEST? Let's stick to the rules, guys: if you name the bill the "Secure Elections Act", I expect it to be an Orwellian attempt to deliver all state control to the shadowy members of the PNAC.
I usually put rat poison in the cake, but yeah, that's a good one isn't it!
Not sure where you or he are coming from. At my school (a conservatory in the States) I've taken an entire semester course on twentieth-century analysis techniques, and a semester course entirely devoted to 20th music history (the focus being on Art Music as it grew from the European tradition, although the distinctions necessarily get blurred). And of course we all regularly perform, hear and study 20th century works.
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Interesting. I haven't checked out Dell's site, but this could very well be an example of the age-old technique of hiding the less expensive options from someone who is willing to pay more (there's a name for this, I'm sure). Used in everything from airline ticket pricing to starbucks' secret "short" size cappucino (I even read somewhere that it used to be common for passenger train cars to be roofless, just so everyone who could afford to would buy costlier tickets in the covered sections).
Perhaps in this case what they are thinking is "we don't want to encourage this whole linux thing because it will alienate MS, we'll maybe lose a little money, but we want the business of people who coming looking for linux pre-installed".
Assuming that such a simulation is not a logical impossibility, and that there is not an insurmountable barrier to intelligence, (and a few other things) it becomes far more likely that we don't even exist.
Don't be so pedantic, those zeros aren't even significant.
I was confused by that too. If someone were actually 'driving by' and came upon an unsecured WAP they could do a hell of a lot more than divert requests to a website. Hell, you could re-flash the router with a linux-based firmware like OpenWRT and basically own their intern3tz. e.g. run a sniffer that logs all interesting traffic to a remote SSH filesystem.
There was some confusion over at Reddit yesterday as to whether the database actually had been wiped or if it was simply overloaded from all the crazy querying. It started when someone posted a link to the riaa site that had an XKCD comic superimposed via a XSS attack. The site was also basically DOSed at some points from all the reddit/digg traffic.