The thing that makes me suspicious about Python is that the people who are trumpeting it's greatness are by and large the people who were so keen on Lisp. To some extent perhaps they're just learning the error of their ways, but still. It doesn't look right.
There are a lot of reasons to have windows not maximized. Even with a tiling window manager, there are always situations where you want to have windows overlapping so you can see one bit of dynamically updating stuff in one window, and be working on stuff in another window, and maybe have a third open.
Windows should start maximized by default, but there are a variety of good use cases.
Are men and women innately different? Yes. Does that have any relevance in terms of modern society? Probably. Do their ideal roles in any way reflect their current societal roles? Not in any way shape or form.
There is one reason, and one reason only that you didn't see women in higher education before this past century: childbirth. Not child rearing, not pregnancy. Childbirth killed most women before they reach 30. Men, on the other hand, so long as they were kept out of the {mines, war, boats, etc.} would likely live to a ripe old age. These evolutionary pressures are gone, as are most of the unskilled tasks usually reserved for women. (You don't believe that, try doing laundry by hand. It's practically a full time job in and of itself.)
Keeping women in their old roles as housekeepers is a massive waste of brain power. By your (bullshit unverified) claim that women are average and men are at the extremes, it doesn't matter. In fact it's likely that genius and idiot alike are unsuited to making advances in the new era, which rely on hours and hours of work by large teams of people. Both geniuses and idiots work badly on teams.
But in any case, the issue of childbirth is the only reason for the old roles. We've solved that problem, and it's time to redefine the roles.
The participant asked why digital file formats (jpg, mpeg-3, mpeg-4, jpeg2000, and so on) can't allow the same degradation and remain viewable.
Because all of those are compressed, and take up a tiny fraction of the space that a faithful digital recording of the information on a film reel would take up. If you want lossless-level data integrity, use lossless formats for your masters.
It's a little preposterous to say that Linux documentation is lacking. It's not fantastic, but manpages are significantly more useful than Windows help, and well, Solaris manpages... they're terrible. FOSS documentation beats commercial documentation in my experience.
I presume to counteract the people that modded it overrated.
But mostly he was calling the OP out on his absolute bullshit. Yes, Linux existed in 1995, but I'd wager 90% of the manpages in Debians main testing repository did not exist in 1995. Saying that it hasn't improved since then is just stupid, since most of it didn't exist then. Most of my favorite Linux utilities were written at the earliest in 98, probably in 2001-2002, and the manpages for the most part likely came later.
I wouldn't say that necessarily. It's a very old manuscript, and modern Italian letter frequencies won't necessarily hold. It also appears that many people were laboring to decipher it under the assumption that it is encoded English.
But someone a little more thoughtful is obviously going to need to take a crack at it.
It sounds like things are moving to a much better business model. I'm quite satisfied with Pandora One. A similar business model for Google and others wouldn't be too bad in the end. Just so their are multiple distributors. I don't want to have to use Microsoft for Murdoch and Google for the NY Times.
I'd be quite happy with a fixed-rate news service that paid news providers based on how often their news was read, especially if it contained all news providers.
But Google is a content platform. There are two places where it is not strictly a content platform: search and maps. But those things are non-trivial. In E-mail, chat, and docs, you can trivially export from Google and import into something else. There's no equivalent application that has a good support of tags - but that's what makes Google superior, and if you really need tags and can't handle a translation to folders, don't leave Google.
Now, the tinfoil hats will likely say that Google can lock up your data at any time, but I expect some legal recourse should that happen. There are a variety of universities and other organizations that entered into a contract with Google under the understanding that their data would be open. Since I started using Google when my alma mater made the switch, I think there'd be an argument to be made there.
In any case, that's just paranoia until Google does anything.
The hotspot owner was likely sued for refusing to do anything about repeated infringement on their network. I can't speak for the UK, but in the States, so long as you ban any MAC address associated with an IP the *IAA sends your way, they're basically happy that you've taken the trouble to minimize downloading (and the majority of pirates aren't going to bother MAC spoofing when they can just go down the street or buy what they wanted.)
You're confusing Hollywood nonsense with scientific argument. The scientific argument is simple: the Earth will grow warmer in the next century, and as a result sea levels will rise by at least a meter, but probably 4 or so.
Is it anthropogenic? Skeptics have reason to question this. But at the same time, given the massive damage humans have definitely caused to the atmosphere (the depletion of the ozone layer was a real problem that we had to deal with) it seems somewhat disingenuous to claim that humans aren't at least in part responsible for atmospheric trends.
This isn't opening up bank records. This is just widening the circle of gnomes a little to include people who are probably worse than the current circle of gnomes.
Don't feed the trolls. More and more of them have mod points every day. We all know that the preamble starts with "We the people" to emphasize that this is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, the very definition of American Democracy.
I think soon Slashdot will be overrun, if it has not already fallen and we're standing partaking in the ashes believing that we eat the finest fruit.
If a citation doesn't come with your information, you aren't the sort of person who should be editing an encyclopedia. The point is not just to increase the quality of Wikipedia, but the quality of the editors - which despite the fearmongering in this article are in ample supply.
If you add citations to citation-free facts, you're encouraging people to add more citation-free facts, further increasing the cleanup burden, and making it harder to distinguish between uncited yet factual information and uncited lies.
No profit in the long run. Both of them are contributing to the collapse of the US economy by exacerbating the already absurd trade 'deficit' with other countries, which really amounts to other nations giving us more than we give them in return, and often without us paying for it.
Not really - since it appears that it can go flat too, a touchscreen keyboard that has actual pop-up keys would be a very good thing to have around.
I question this sort of technology's reliability, but if it's comparable to a normal smartphone it would be a definite step up from the current touchscreen keyboards on the iPhone and others.
Until Moore's law tapers off you shouldn't really denigrate those who think that. It looks like we should have enough power by now, but that doesn't mean that more power won't make it easier.
It's also a perfectly reasonable assertion that current computers remain too slow to properly do strong AI.
Facebook and the like offer zero security. If you understand the risks of what happens on Facebook well enough to make an informed decision to put your stuff up there, you probably understand it well enough to throw up a quick web server.
The social media have been a great equalizer in terms of access, but that's a double edged sword.
There are perfectly valid reasons to hate modern society. But this article doesn't seem to have even a superficial understanding of society, modern or otherwise. If he did he wouldn't be comparing older analogues to new tech in a favorable light.
It seems like Slashdot has decided that The Discovery Channel knows what nerds really want or something.
Why would you use Google to get your news? I get my news from here, from Reddit, and from a handful of trusted news sites (BBC, NY Times, El Pais.) If all of those went private, I would probably start paying for one of them, but aggregators like Slashdot / Reddit provide all the alternate news I need. And I know that's not drying up (half of it's stuff that cannot dry up, since it's user-generated content like blog posts and flickr albums.
These stars are within 100 light-years. If they have the capacity to hit us with an asteroid, they've already got probes monitoring our development. It's highly unlikely that we could inform anyone of our existence who didn't know about us already unless they were at a similar level of technological advancement.
Or if we have reached more or less the pinnacle of possible spaceflight.
Slashdot Mirror
The thing that makes me suspicious about Python is that the people who are trumpeting it's greatness are by and large the people who were so keen on Lisp. To some extent perhaps they're just learning the error of their ways, but still. It doesn't look right.
There are a lot of reasons to have windows not maximized. Even with a tiling window manager, there are always situations where you want to have windows overlapping so you can see one bit of dynamically updating stuff in one window, and be working on stuff in another window, and maybe have a third open.
Windows should start maximized by default, but there are a variety of good use cases.
I can't believe you were modded up so far.
Are men and women innately different? Yes. Does that have any relevance in terms of modern society? Probably. Do their ideal roles in any way reflect their current societal roles? Not in any way shape or form.
There is one reason, and one reason only that you didn't see women in higher education before this past century: childbirth. Not child rearing, not pregnancy. Childbirth killed most women before they reach 30. Men, on the other hand, so long as they were kept out of the {mines, war, boats, etc.} would likely live to a ripe old age. These evolutionary pressures are gone, as are most of the unskilled tasks usually reserved for women. (You don't believe that, try doing laundry by hand. It's practically a full time job in and of itself.)
Keeping women in their old roles as housekeepers is a massive waste of brain power. By your (bullshit unverified) claim that women are average and men are at the extremes, it doesn't matter. In fact it's likely that genius and idiot alike are unsuited to making advances in the new era, which rely on hours and hours of work by large teams of people. Both geniuses and idiots work badly on teams.
But in any case, the issue of childbirth is the only reason for the old roles. We've solved that problem, and it's time to redefine the roles.
Because all of those are compressed, and take up a tiny fraction of the space that a faithful digital recording of the information on a film reel would take up. If you want lossless-level data integrity, use lossless formats for your masters.
It's a little preposterous to say that Linux documentation is lacking. It's not fantastic, but manpages are significantly more useful than Windows help, and well, Solaris manpages... they're terrible. FOSS documentation beats commercial documentation in my experience.
I presume to counteract the people that modded it overrated.
But mostly he was calling the OP out on his absolute bullshit. Yes, Linux existed in 1995, but I'd wager 90% of the manpages in Debians main testing repository did not exist in 1995. Saying that it hasn't improved since then is just stupid, since most of it didn't exist then. Most of my favorite Linux utilities were written at the earliest in 98, probably in 2001-2002, and the manpages for the most part likely came later.
I wouldn't say that necessarily. It's a very old manuscript, and modern Italian letter frequencies won't necessarily hold. It also appears that many people were laboring to decipher it under the assumption that it is encoded English.
But someone a little more thoughtful is obviously going to need to take a crack at it.
It sounds like things are moving to a much better business model. I'm quite satisfied with Pandora One. A similar business model for Google and others wouldn't be too bad in the end. Just so their are multiple distributors. I don't want to have to use Microsoft for Murdoch and Google for the NY Times.
I'd be quite happy with a fixed-rate news service that paid news providers based on how often their news was read, especially if it contained all news providers.
But Google is a content platform. There are two places where it is not strictly a content platform: search and maps. But those things are non-trivial. In E-mail, chat, and docs, you can trivially export from Google and import into something else. There's no equivalent application that has a good support of tags - but that's what makes Google superior, and if you really need tags and can't handle a translation to folders, don't leave Google.
Now, the tinfoil hats will likely say that Google can lock up your data at any time, but I expect some legal recourse should that happen. There are a variety of universities and other organizations that entered into a contract with Google under the understanding that their data would be open. Since I started using Google when my alma mater made the switch, I think there'd be an argument to be made there.
In any case, that's just paranoia until Google does anything.
You see that sort of thing entirely too rarely.
The hotspot owner was likely sued for refusing to do anything about repeated infringement on their network. I can't speak for the UK, but in the States, so long as you ban any MAC address associated with an IP the *IAA sends your way, they're basically happy that you've taken the trouble to minimize downloading (and the majority of pirates aren't going to bother MAC spoofing when they can just go down the street or buy what they wanted.)
You're confusing Hollywood nonsense with scientific argument. The scientific argument is simple: the Earth will grow warmer in the next century, and as a result sea levels will rise by at least a meter, but probably 4 or so.
Is it anthropogenic? Skeptics have reason to question this. But at the same time, given the massive damage humans have definitely caused to the atmosphere (the depletion of the ozone layer was a real problem that we had to deal with) it seems somewhat disingenuous to claim that humans aren't at least in part responsible for atmospheric trends.
This isn't opening up bank records. This is just widening the circle of gnomes a little to include people who are probably worse than the current circle of gnomes.
Don't feed the trolls. More and more of them have mod points every day. We all know that the preamble starts with "We the people" to emphasize that this is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, the very definition of American Democracy.
I think soon Slashdot will be overrun, if it has not already fallen and we're standing partaking in the ashes believing that we eat the finest fruit.
If a citation doesn't come with your information, you aren't the sort of person who should be editing an encyclopedia. The point is not just to increase the quality of Wikipedia, but the quality of the editors - which despite the fearmongering in this article are in ample supply.
If you add citations to citation-free facts, you're encouraging people to add more citation-free facts, further increasing the cleanup burden, and making it harder to distinguish between uncited yet factual information and uncited lies.
Sounds like Slashdot. Except Slashdot has a lot more crap.
No profit in the long run. Both of them are contributing to the collapse of the US economy by exacerbating the already absurd trade 'deficit' with other countries, which really amounts to other nations giving us more than we give them in return, and often without us paying for it.
Not really - since it appears that it can go flat too, a touchscreen keyboard that has actual pop-up keys would be a very good thing to have around.
I question this sort of technology's reliability, but if it's comparable to a normal smartphone it would be a definite step up from the current touchscreen keyboards on the iPhone and others.
Until Moore's law tapers off you shouldn't really denigrate those who think that. It looks like we should have enough power by now, but that doesn't mean that more power won't make it easier.
It's also a perfectly reasonable assertion that current computers remain too slow to properly do strong AI.
Facebook and the like offer zero security. If you understand the risks of what happens on Facebook well enough to make an informed decision to put your stuff up there, you probably understand it well enough to throw up a quick web server.
The social media have been a great equalizer in terms of access, but that's a double edged sword.
There are perfectly valid reasons to hate modern society. But this article doesn't seem to have even a superficial understanding of society, modern or otherwise. If he did he wouldn't be comparing older analogues to new tech in a favorable light.
It seems like Slashdot has decided that The Discovery Channel knows what nerds really want or something.
Why would you use Google to get your news? I get my news from here, from Reddit, and from a handful of trusted news sites (BBC, NY Times, El Pais.) If all of those went private, I would probably start paying for one of them, but aggregators like Slashdot / Reddit provide all the alternate news I need. And I know that's not drying up (half of it's stuff that cannot dry up, since it's user-generated content like blog posts and flickr albums.
These stars are within 100 light-years. If they have the capacity to hit us with an asteroid, they've already got probes monitoring our development. It's highly unlikely that we could inform anyone of our existence who didn't know about us already unless they were at a similar level of technological advancement.
Or if we have reached more or less the pinnacle of possible spaceflight.
Yasir Arafat?
Looks to me like these regulations are being put in place to make sure that the manufacturers don't cut corners and erase any of those gains.
But I like your idea of pushing California further into debt to encourage consumerism.