But they can not compel other adults to expose their children to those same ideas.
That's what I think is wrong with 100% of all the religious people in the world. They think their children are clay that they must mold according to their beliefs.
Religious people, for some strange reason of their own, don't think of their children as human beings with rights of their own. Like the right to know that not everyone thinks like their parents do.
Schools do NOT present "alternative points of view."
Even if the curriculum is faulty, children at school learn to live along with other people.
They are exposed to different points of view, they might even have a guy in their class whose parents don't go to church or something like that. They learn that not everyone thinks like their parents do, there are alternatives.
The fundamental right in question would be that of the parent to raise their own children, as opposed to the State doing so. This is unfortunately one of those rights that never got expressly enumerated in the Constitution
Here's your first lesson in Human Rights: YOUR CHILDREN ARE **NOT** YOUR PROPERTY
The rights of the children to have a proper education trumps your right to "educate" them.
So, the state isn't doing a good job in education? It's a democracy, go and elect politicians that do a better job.
Yes, because parents would never do such a thing outside school time, would they?
Parents like that are exactly why home schooling should be outlawed.
In school children are exposed to alternative points of view that would be denied them if the only formative influence they had were their parents.
I think it's part of the children's human rights to be informed that different viewpoints exist. Parents not allowing their children that right is child abuse at its worst. It's OK for parents to complement their children's education if they think the school isn't doing it well, but they cannot keep the children isolated from the world.
Why enforce never using tabs? Why not enforce never using spaces?
Because using only spaces never causes confusion. Using only TABs can cause confusion in many cases, even if one never uses spaces for indenting.
For example, you comment one line temporarily for a test. What happens to the tab that's now following a start comment character(s)? You merge two lines into one, what happens to the tab characters that are now inserted in the middle of a line? You break one line into two, will you need to convert the spaces into tabs? You cut and paste text from somewhere else, how will you make sure that the indentation contains only tabs? Have you ever copied text from a web page? From a PDF file? From a scanned+OCR'd paper?
How can you ever be sure that in those and many other situations that all your lines contain the exact number of tabs? How can you be sure that your OCR, your document editor, and your PDF reader are configured to the same tab width as your code editor?
We have one character that means 'blank', having another one just for the sake of the few people who want a specially personalized indentation is a complication we can live without.
why on earth is everyone using _spaces_ to format text and stuff? spaces are for separating words, tabulations to perform column indentation. as easy as that.
You should have dictated that rule before anybody started using computers. The advantage in using tabs is a theory that only holds true in the minds of people who insist on using them.
As it is now, tabs are a total mess. Go take a look at any open source project that has more than one contributor. You'll find all sorts of mixed space+tabs indentations.
Unfortunately, there's no solution for this mess, if you replace all tabs with a fixed number of spaces that will fuck up the version control. Even then, for some projects this is the best solution, create one version that's the replacement of tabs with spaces, there will be no problem after that.
The only way to make sure you are not creating problems for the future is never use tabs in new code, this is a rule I enforce very strictly on any project I'm coordinating.
when I open the file my editor represents the tabs as width as two spaces, while my colleague uses a four-spaces-for-tabs setting as he prefer that way.
And then comes another guy who uses three spaces to indent and your code is gone. Allowing each user to change arbitrarily the width of the TAB is a BAD idea.
The original use of the TAB key was to ease the creation of tables in typewriters. There was a set of mechanical stops, one for each column, and you could set or reset each stop. Pressing the TAB key moved the carriage to the next stop. Some electronic terminals, like the VT-100 for instance, kept this convention, allowing one to set or reset the TAB stop for each column. In modern computers this is not really necessary, since editing tables is often done in spreadsheets.
Setting the TAB width arbitrarily at fixed multiples of eight or any other number of columns really doesn't help much, since the indentation support of modern editors is much more powerful than that.
The only use of the TAB key for me is moving to the next widget in the GUI.
by all other means an electric guitar is a real guitar (except that most electric guitars are solid body guitars to avoid feedback).
You have never played a guitar, have you? Playing an electric guitar is fundamentally different from playing an acoustic guitar.
Probably the best analogy would be to say an electric guitar is to an acoustic guitar as an organ is to a piano. In a piano the string is plucked by a hammer, while in the organ the sound is emitted continuously by the air flowing in the tubes.
An electric guitar is designed to have a sustained sound, and that's why it has a solid body, to lessen the dissipation of the sound, not to avoid feedback. Acoustic guitars need the dissipation, otherwise they would emit no sound at all.
This sustained sound is what allows so many different effects to be produced by an electric guitar, both by manipulating the strings and by controlling the amplifiers.
I think playing this thing would be a bit like typing on an on-screen keyboard - a second class experience.
I had that same experience when I tried to play an electronic saxophone. All the feel of the reed in the acoustic instrument is gone.
However, guitars have been "electric", which actually means a hybrid instrument, for decades now. This Misa is actually a third generation instrument, we have the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, and the touchscreen guitar, three entirely different instruments that share the same basic physical layout for generating chords.
In step 11 of the HDR link you provided it seems to me that, except for a bluer sky, the HDR photo is actually somewhat worse for details than the original on the left.
The problem with stacking astronomy photos over a long time without an equatorial mount is that the image field rotates from one photo to the next. Your software should take that into account, otherwise the result will be a lot of circles centered on the celestial pole.
If you've used Windows 2000, you know that's been complete bunk for a decade now. Windows 2000 has mount points, welcome to 1999!
Unix did that since the beginning, welcome to 1969!
And now are you claiming that Bash is intrinsically easier to use than Windows? Because there's decades of evidence to the contrary.
Yes, I am. Let's see some examples of tasks a professional sysadmin is asked to do every day: "what was the name of that Java file Fred used about five years ago which called the zeepto function?", "how much disk space is used by all the src directories?", "where is the most recently read file that uses the xxrk library?", ando so on.
This is the kind of work that Unix has been doing very easily for four decades by now.
All the system calls accept a normal slash as well as a backslash as a directory separator. This has been true since MSDOS 2.0. If you are putting backslashes into your code you are being stupid.
Can I do that in every application, every library, written in any language, without having to worry about compatibilities?
No, I don't think I'm stupid, just a competent professional
I only hope the nanobots will be able to turn my grey hairs back to their original color.
And let my eyes focus to short distances again. Get my blood pressure back to normal. Let me drink at will and still have all my sexual prowess left...
Filesystems are laied out differently, permissions work differently, desktops integration works differently, the UI of the system around the windows apps is different. It won't ever offer the *same* user experience and its not enteded to do so.
I agree completely with you, but I think this is the best reason for joining Wine instead of trying to create a whole new OS.
I started working with Linux in 1995 and have almost completely abandoned Windows since 2000 or so. However, I still have to do some occasional work in Windows, and I always feel how painful and difficult it is compared to a Unix-like system.
Windows lacks the advanced tools that Unix has, such as the Bash shell, for instance. I'm now occasionally do support for an industrial control system that uses Linux servers with Windows workstations. According to the manufacturer, it's by customer demand that they use Windows for the workstations. They use Cygwin for scripting a command shell.
And how about filesystems? The simple fact that the directory separator is the backslash, which is used as the escape sequence initiator in C-like languages, is a PITA. Plus you are limited to 26 different filesystems, one for each alphabet letter. And you cannot use a name for mount points, just one letter.
I could go on and on, for any professional systems administrator, Unix is far superior to Windows, there is no doubt about that. It's only for home computers that familiarity is a convenience, professionals can be readily trained to use a system that's intrinsically easier to use.
I somehow feel that trying to make a new OS that has exactly the same "feel" as Windows is like trying to make a modern car that has exactly the same feel as a Ford Model T.
you could just have one key and if you keep hitting it it cycles through all of the keycodes until you get to the one you want. Then you pause and go on to the next one. Seems very elegant to me.
he should STOP PUBLISHING BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT, STOP CAMPAIGNING TO BAN WI-FI , AND LEAVE HIS NEIGHBOUR (an ex-friend of his I gather) THE F**K ALONE.
Getting a profit from criminal activity is illegal. If he made fraudulent claims in his books and got anything from selling those books he has no right to keep it. The county should confiscate everything he got and give it to the neighbors he has been harassing.
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That's what I think is wrong with 100% of all the religious people in the world. They think their children are clay that they must mold according to their beliefs.
Religious people, for some strange reason of their own, don't think of their children as human beings with rights of their own. Like the right to know that not everyone thinks like their parents do.
Even if the curriculum is faulty, children at school learn to live along with other people.
They are exposed to different points of view, they might even have a guy in their class whose parents don't go to church or something like that. They learn that not everyone thinks like their parents do, there are alternatives.
Here's your first lesson in Human Rights: YOUR CHILDREN ARE **NOT** YOUR PROPERTY
The rights of the children to have a proper education trumps your right to "educate" them.
So, the state isn't doing a good job in education? It's a democracy, go and elect politicians that do a better job.
Parents like that are exactly why home schooling should be outlawed.
In school children are exposed to alternative points of view that would be denied them if the only formative influence they had were their parents.
I think it's part of the children's human rights to be informed that different viewpoints exist. Parents not allowing their children that right is child abuse at its worst. It's OK for parents to complement their children's education if they think the school isn't doing it well, but they cannot keep the children isolated from the world.
Because using only spaces never causes confusion. Using only TABs can cause confusion in many cases, even if one never uses spaces for indenting.
For example, you comment one line temporarily for a test. What happens to the tab that's now following a start comment character(s)? You merge two lines into one, what happens to the tab characters that are now inserted in the middle of a line? You break one line into two, will you need to convert the spaces into tabs? You cut and paste text from somewhere else, how will you make sure that the indentation contains only tabs? Have you ever copied text from a web page? From a PDF file? From a scanned+OCR'd paper?
How can you ever be sure that in those and many other situations that all your lines contain the exact number of tabs? How can you be sure that your OCR, your document editor, and your PDF reader are configured to the same tab width as your code editor?
We have one character that means 'blank', having another one just for the sake of the few people who want a specially personalized indentation is a complication we can live without.
You should have dictated that rule before anybody started using computers. The advantage in using tabs is a theory that only holds true in the minds of people who insist on using them.
As it is now, tabs are a total mess. Go take a look at any open source project that has more than one contributor. You'll find all sorts of mixed space+tabs indentations.
Unfortunately, there's no solution for this mess, if you replace all tabs with a fixed number of spaces that will fuck up the version control. Even then, for some projects this is the best solution, create one version that's the replacement of tabs with spaces, there will be no problem after that.
The only way to make sure you are not creating problems for the future is never use tabs in new code, this is a rule I enforce very strictly on any project I'm coordinating.
And then comes another guy who uses three spaces to indent and your code is gone. Allowing each user to change arbitrarily the width of the TAB is a BAD idea.
The original use of the TAB key was to ease the creation of tables in typewriters. There was a set of mechanical stops, one for each column, and you could set or reset each stop. Pressing the TAB key moved the carriage to the next stop. Some electronic terminals, like the VT-100 for instance, kept this convention, allowing one to set or reset the TAB stop for each column. In modern computers this is not really necessary, since editing tables is often done in spreadsheets.
Setting the TAB width arbitrarily at fixed multiples of eight or any other number of columns really doesn't help much, since the indentation support of modern editors is much more powerful than that.
The only use of the TAB key for me is moving to the next widget in the GUI.
You have never played a guitar, have you? Playing an electric guitar is fundamentally different from playing an acoustic guitar.
Probably the best analogy would be to say an electric guitar is to an acoustic guitar as an organ is to a piano. In a piano the string is plucked by a hammer, while in the organ the sound is emitted continuously by the air flowing in the tubes.
An electric guitar is designed to have a sustained sound, and that's why it has a solid body, to lessen the dissipation of the sound, not to avoid feedback. Acoustic guitars need the dissipation, otherwise they would emit no sound at all.
This sustained sound is what allows so many different effects to be produced by an electric guitar, both by manipulating the strings and by controlling the amplifiers.
I had that same experience when I tried to play an electronic saxophone. All the feel of the reed in the acoustic instrument is gone.
However, guitars have been "electric", which actually means a hybrid instrument, for decades now. This Misa is actually a third generation instrument, we have the acoustic guitar, the electric guitar, and the touchscreen guitar, three entirely different instruments that share the same basic physical layout for generating chords.
With something like 1.35 billion people you can bet someone there speaks your language.
In step 11 of the HDR link you provided it seems to me that, except for a bluer sky, the HDR photo is actually somewhat worse for details than the original on the left.
The problem with stacking astronomy photos over a long time without an equatorial mount is that the image field rotates from one photo to the next. Your software should take that into account, otherwise the result will be a lot of circles centered on the celestial pole.
No, I don't think so. Better ask for the latest display models.
When political correctness is required I usually combine "she", "he", and "it" in a single pronoun. As in "shit is politically correct".
And public opinion is molded by Big Content. We are fucked.
My first thought was "what's a buytaert and why does it need to be dried?"
Unix did that since the beginning, welcome to 1969!
Yes, I am. Let's see some examples of tasks a professional sysadmin is asked to do every day: "what was the name of that Java file Fred used about five years ago which called the zeepto function?", "how much disk space is used by all the src directories?", "where is the most recently read file that uses the xxrk library?", ando so on.
This is the kind of work that Unix has been doing very easily for four decades by now.
Can I do that in every application, every library, written in any language, without having to worry about compatibilities?
No, I don't think I'm stupid, just a competent professional
I only hope the nanobots will be able to turn my grey hairs back to their original color.
And let my eyes focus to short distances again. Get my blood pressure back to normal. Let me drink at will and still have all my sexual prowess left...
They started trying to emulate NT4 or win98. What exactly are they aiming for today?
Definitely time to throw the towel.
I agree completely with you, but I think this is the best reason for joining Wine instead of trying to create a whole new OS.
I started working with Linux in 1995 and have almost completely abandoned Windows since 2000 or so. However, I still have to do some occasional work in Windows, and I always feel how painful and difficult it is compared to a Unix-like system.
Windows lacks the advanced tools that Unix has, such as the Bash shell, for instance. I'm now occasionally do support for an industrial control system that uses Linux servers with Windows workstations. According to the manufacturer, it's by customer demand that they use Windows for the workstations. They use Cygwin for scripting a command shell.
And how about filesystems? The simple fact that the directory separator is the backslash, which is used as the escape sequence initiator in C-like languages, is a PITA. Plus you are limited to 26 different filesystems, one for each alphabet letter. And you cannot use a name for mount points, just one letter.
I could go on and on, for any professional systems administrator, Unix is far superior to Windows, there is no doubt about that. It's only for home computers that familiarity is a convenience, professionals can be readily trained to use a system that's intrinsically easier to use.
I somehow feel that trying to make a new OS that has exactly the same "feel" as Windows is like trying to make a modern car that has exactly the same feel as a Ford Model T.
Unfortunately you cannot patent it. Prior art
Aren't border crossings an exception to the Fourth Amendment, or rather, a circumstance where any search is considered "reasonable" by default?
Will they next try to ban audio books because they cannot be red by the deaf?
Getting a profit from criminal activity is illegal. If he made fraudulent claims in his books and got anything from selling those books he has no right to keep it. The county should confiscate everything he got and give it to the neighbors he has been harassing.
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