Please help save another person. All it takes is the price of a cup of coffee and this person could be saved.
You're missing the best ad campaign: For the price of a small Taco you can help one life be free of the trauma of bad spelling. Just one more Taco a week can make a difference.
Soft updates? WTF is that supposed to mean... sounds suspiciously like the MySQL "RDBMS" doesn't actually write anything to disk in that situation. Not particularly useful if you don't like losing customer orders. Anyway, I'm sure I'll be flamed if I'm wrong...
I am forced to agree. However, there should be a time limit on it, to keep transparency. This is analagous to the way governments can't be expected to post troop positions on the nightly news.
I would hope for a bit more timely response than the 30-year + fudging type rules that predominate for government, however. How about a 30-day delayed archive? That way it gives them a chance to deal with vulnerabilities but the process is still transparent and dodginess can be made rapidly accountable. I suspect if you don't allow some secrecy for a matter as critical as this people won't use official forums at all, just send personal mail.
Good point, and the same that my wife just made. It depends whether you take the "losers" definition or the "every gain is balanced by a loss" definition; both are presented below, and I don't know enough about game theory to decide. I'm fairly convinced that the price / cost volatility in the game (eg landing on Mayfair with a hotel is 2000 pounds, against an investment of 1000 pounds) means as time -> infinity, players -> 1. (I have no proof, I would be fascinated to see some.) This would satisfy the "losers" definition. Anyone got more detail on this?
Portability, Security, Ease of programming - these are not being argued against, and all can be fulfilled by the OS API. What Mr Raskin seemed to be arguing against is the primacy of the OS application in the user interface. Most users don't care about it; it's an implementation detail. Doesn't mean you can't build your OS around Unix, but it does mean the command line is only for expert users.
An exaggerated version might be: the OS user interface is a single screen. It has four, differently coloured buttons on it:
[WORD] [SPREADSHEET] [NET] [OTHER]
Now, that would personally shit me to tears and I would get rid of it as soon as possible - but I could, because I was an expert user. It's only when you want to use the shell or multi-windows that the OS as an application becomes useful, otherwise it's just confusing. Even once you want to use some OS-UI features you mightn't want to use them all.
... ah, classic... though the system has probably been trained on white males so anyone wearing a turban will be arrested for that anyway:)
Makes me wonder ... a year and a day ...
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If this technology becomes more widespread (and since the US has a world-class quantity of felons:) it makes me wonder whether the medieval right of should be brought back. Peasants could run away, and if they stayed free for a year and a day they could keep they're freedom. Anyone want to post more detail on this?
First of all, there are non-biological differences between the sexes.
If the difference doesn't come from biology, where does it come from? A platonic gender ideal?
Though evolutionary psychology has some interesting points, it's far from resolved and more often used to prop up reactionary ideas. Yes, there are differences between the sexes, but only when spread across an entire population (exactly what they are is still up for debate). Treating individuals as instances of a type ("It's ok honey, I know it's just your genes that don't want to sleep with me") is just going to annoy people and set yourself up for a fall.
I used some pair programming with some junior programmers to rapidly develop a database interface. We had code reviews and detailed coding standards, including coded examples. All code had to have a testing module that test all aspects of the interface.
I'm intrigued. Junior programmers seemed like an excellent target for XP pair programming, especially when coming to grips with a complex business environment.
Also I've been thinking about unit testing in a database context, and I wondered if it had been done successfully before. The problem as I see it is dbs tend to act as global variables. eg. Creating and deleting records and logical sets of records seem to fit the unit testing approach fine, but what about complex processing on large amounts of records? Did you have any exposure to this or advice? Did you reuse unit tests for fundamental objects as you reused the objects at a higher abstraction? (ie, if class c relied on class d, did class cTest call methods in class dTest?)
Anyway, some thought from the coalface would be appreciated...
What a quaint mix of regulations. Without bothering with too much detail:
* Telstra is a big company. It makes big profits.
* The public interest would be well served by more money for Unis, but the current public money allocated to higher ed is about average for the OECD, the problem is lack of private funding
* The regulation-happy approach you suggest is exactly the problem with the censorship and datacasting dodgy laws; lawyers = parliamentarians = don't understand tech
* Government clout to get something to work in the private sector? Have you ever watched an election commercial? Government is hopeless at being directly involved with commercial realities and it's a quick path to nepotism and corruption when it does get involved, just see the Credit Lyonnais debacle
I'm not fully up on the XML scene, but aren't DTDs being replaced in the very near future by XSDs (XML Schema Definitions)? They at least are a dialect of XML, so to use XML you only have to learn one (easy) language.
... is still the best voting technology available. It provides reliability, traceability, flexibility and usability. And nations can hand-count the millions of ballots produced in one night, with a few more days being taken for close elections, postal votes, &c.
Hmmm. I wonder if authors with an established fan-base could move to a production-sharing / large commission mode. For instance, in a comic book series people could have the option of tipping not only for the current issues, but future issues. The author could make known up front that he won't produce it until he has $x committed to it. To avoid artists running off without creating the work the money could be held by a reliable third party. This would reduce risk for the artist and reduce micropayment stuffing around for the reader.
I suspect you just claimed there's no such thing as good teaching. Sure, for students that don't get much out of school, it's partly their own fault. But it's also the fault of a slow and tedious curricullum that values sitting still over critical thought.
The most arrogant (implicit) assertion by the Salon article was that average people aren't capable of critical thought, they need the government to pre-think things for them. You can never give people knowledge; it's something they must attain for themselves. What you can do is give them the tools to build knowledge, and if they don't have them, the fault lies quite directly with bad schools.
Yes and no. It's a very small percentage of the user experience, but only if the user doesn't give up the installation half way. Since it's the first thing a new user may see, it should make a good impression.
Remember, people follow links because they want something on your site: the best possible introduction and more valuable than any advertising for attracting new customers.
Charging for them is definitely missing the point...
All this introspective business is well and good, but it's sounding more like Oprah than Slashdot. As such I've grabbed some standard celebrity questions for you to answer from recent interviews:
5) Internet distributable music
by iamsure
If music *could* be distributed securely online, would you as an artist be willing to do so INSTEAD of signing with a label? If not, would you be willing to do so and pressure your label?
5.) Why should I care about this case? (Score:5, Interesting)
by vertical-limit on 08-17-00 14:03 EST (#32)
"This isn't flamebait -- it's a honest question. Why should I, John Q. Public, care about this case? What's in it for me? What would I lose if the MPAA were to ultimately win? What would I gain from a 2600 victory? In other words, please explain why this case should matter to the average American citizen."
5) War on Drugs
by Tim Doran
The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
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You're missing the best ad campaign: For the price of a small Taco you can help one life be free of the trauma of bad spelling. Just one more Taco a week can make a difference.
Tacos against Tacoism. Can you make a difference?
Soft updates? WTF is that supposed to mean ... sounds suspiciously like the MySQL "RDBMS" doesn't actually write anything to disk in that situation. Not particularly useful if you don't like losing customer orders. Anyway, I'm sure I'll be flamed if I'm wrong ...
I would hope for a bit more timely response than the 30-year + fudging type rules that predominate for government, however. How about a 30-day delayed archive? That way it gives them a chance to deal with vulnerabilities but the process is still transparent and dodginess can be made rapidly accountable. I suspect if you don't allow some secrecy for a matter as critical as this people won't use official forums at all, just send personal mail.
Good point, and the same that my wife just made. It depends whether you take the "losers" definition or the "every gain is balanced by a loss" definition; both are presented below, and I don't know enough about game theory to decide. I'm fairly convinced that the price / cost volatility in the game (eg landing on Mayfair with a hotel is 2000 pounds, against an investment of 1000 pounds) means as time -> infinity, players -> 1. (I have no proof, I would be fascinated to see some.) This would satisfy the "losers" definition. Anyone got more detail on this?
An exaggerated version might be: the OS user interface is a single screen. It has four, differently coloured buttons on it:
[WORD] [SPREADSHEET] [NET] [OTHER]
Now, that would personally shit me to tears and I would get rid of it as soon as possible - but I could, because I was an expert user. It's only when you want to use the shell or multi-windows that the OS as an application becomes useful, otherwise it's just confusing. Even once you want to use some OS-UI features you mightn't want to use them all.
... ah, classic ... though the system has probably been trained on white males so anyone wearing a turban will be arrested for that anyway :)
If this technology becomes more widespread (and since the US has a world-class quantity of felons :) it makes me wonder whether the medieval right of should be brought back. Peasants could run away, and if they stayed free for a year and a day they could keep they're freedom. Anyone want to post more detail on this?
Hmmm ... how about "anatomical"?
If the difference doesn't come from biology, where does it come from? A platonic gender ideal?
Though evolutionary psychology has some interesting points, it's far from resolved and more often used to prop up reactionary ideas. Yes, there are differences between the sexes, but only when spread across an entire population (exactly what they are is still up for debate). Treating individuals as instances of a type ("It's ok honey, I know it's just your genes that don't want to sleep with me") is just going to annoy people and set yourself up for a fall.
I'm intrigued. Junior programmers seemed like an excellent target for XP pair programming, especially when coming to grips with a complex business environment.
Also I've been thinking about unit testing in a database context, and I wondered if it had been done successfully before. The problem as I see it is dbs tend to act as global variables. eg. Creating and deleting records and logical sets of records seem to fit the unit testing approach fine, but what about complex processing on large amounts of records? Did you have any exposure to this or advice? Did you reuse unit tests for fundamental objects as you reused the objects at a higher abstraction? (ie, if class c relied on class d, did class cTest call methods in class dTest?)
Anyway, some thought from the coalface would be appreciated ...
Here.
* Telstra is a big company. It makes big profits.
* The public interest would be well served by more money for Unis, but the current public money allocated to higher ed is about average for the OECD, the problem is lack of private funding
* The regulation-happy approach you suggest is exactly the problem with the censorship and datacasting dodgy laws; lawyers = parliamentarians = don't understand tech
* Government clout to get something to work in the private sector? Have you ever watched an election commercial? Government is hopeless at being directly involved with commercial realities and it's a quick path to nepotism and corruption when it does get involved, just see the Credit Lyonnais debacle
I'm not fully up on the XML scene, but aren't DTDs being replaced in the very near future by XSDs (XML Schema Definitions)? They at least are a dialect of XML, so to use XML you only have to learn one (easy) language.
... is still the best voting technology available. It provides reliability, traceability, flexibility and usability. And nations can hand-count the millions of ballots produced in one night, with a few more days being taken for close elections, postal votes, &c.
You are not biased because you are employed by VA, you have an incentive to be biased, which you have quite rightly informed us of.
Hmmm. I wonder if authors with an established fan-base could move to a production-sharing / large commission mode. For instance, in a comic book series people could have the option of tipping not only for the current issues, but future issues. The author could make known up front that he won't produce it until he has $x committed to it. To avoid artists running off without creating the work the money could be held by a reliable third party. This would reduce risk for the artist and reduce micropayment stuffing around for the reader.
The most arrogant (implicit) assertion by the Salon article was that average people aren't capable of critical thought, they need the government to pre-think things for them. You can never give people knowledge; it's something they must attain for themselves. What you can do is give them the tools to build knowledge, and if they don't have them, the fault lies quite directly with bad schools.
Gastrobots: The High-Tech Vomitorium!
Maybe that needs work ...
Ha! We're going to build our own Australia-Antartica railroad and teach you all a lesson ...
Yes and no. It's a very small percentage of the user experience, but only if the user doesn't give up the installation half way. Since it's the first thing a new user may see, it should make a good impression.
Remember, people follow links because they want something on your site: the best possible introduction and more valuable than any advertising for attracting new customers.
Charging for them is definitely missing the point ...
5) Internet distributable music by iamsure
If music *could* be distributed securely online, would you as an artist be willing to do so INSTEAD of signing with a label? If not, would you be willing to do so and pressure your label?
5.) Why should I care about this case? (Score:5, Interesting) by vertical-limit on 08-17-00 14:03 EST (#32)
"This isn't flamebait -- it's a honest question. Why should I, John Q. Public, care about this case? What's in it for me? What would I lose if the MPAA were to ultimately win? What would I gain from a 2600 victory? In other words, please explain why this case should matter to the average American citizen."
5) War on Drugs by Tim Doran
The War on Drugs has been a consistently neglected topic in discussions surrounding this federal election. My question is, do you believe the War on Drugs has been an unqualified success, and if not, what would you change about it if elected president?
It does! Semi-subliminal messages :) ... and to the person that marked this off topic, please don't smoke crack and moderate ...
Thanks to Dutch scientists, vampires can now safely attempt intra-stellar travel :)