There are at least two different ways to think about overpopulation. The first is pure density, so many people in so many square miles. That's what you are talking about.
Then there's the birthrate. I believe the us birthrate is something like 2.0(I could be wrong about the exact figure, but I know the sense is right), which means 2 babies born for every 2 people in the country. Some quick thought will realize that this is not enough for population replacement. The replacement birthrate is something like 2.4 live births for every 2 people in the population, because you have people who die before they reproduce, childless couples, etc. In the past 100 years or so, the trend has been that the the more developed the country is, the lower the birth rate. So while a particular county may have a very high population density, the people there are not reproducting at a rate that can sustain that population. The population is sustained through immagration (hence Buchannan's book where he advocates all the white folks getting busy getting busy and pumping out more white kids.) Generally speaking, the more educated you are, the fewer kids you have.
Plus, San Mateo has enough resources available to feed its population. This is not always the case in what are called 3rd world countries.
So while San Mateo has more people per square mile, those people all have a higher standard of living and their population is stable. They aren't necessarily overpopulated for their geographic area. Meanwhile, in a 3rd world country the population is increasing while the standard of living and education is not.
Personally, I think it wouldn't be a bad idea if a random sampling of half the population of the planet never had kids and those that remained had only 1 or 2 kids. Random would remove all possibility of bias. There are too damn many people everywhere.
only the TiVo will scan the listings for stuff that it thinks you'll like and then record it
I don't know, that's why the tv guide is in the toilet. What I'm waiting for is something that will truly replace my vhs vcr. I want to be able to record shows and then put the medium somewhere.
The hacks to hook the pvr to my pc make the pvr a much more attractive buy. All I'd have to do is run some cabling to the computer when I wanted to store something permanently. But from the looks of the links, it's not quite there yet. Especially considering my vcr is working just fine. Now if I were to need to replace my vcr, it would be a different situation. The times I actually tape and archive stuff is rare. With cable, everything is always on again sometime, except for shows I know are doomed before they even air, viz. The Tick, Lonegunmen.
Back in the distant mists of time, when we had cc:mail in house, messages were deleted from the server after 15 days. Since it was not pop3 and all messages were kept right on the server instead of downloaded to your hard drive, it meant that after 15 days it was gone for good. In theory, backups were made. But the person in charge of cc:mail and the backups had . . . issues with the backup, so itwas hit and miss anyway.
If people wanted to keep a message, they did what every one using these e-mail shredders will do: either print it directly or copy and paste it into word and print it from there.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Anything that will wipe realplayer, a really nasty piece of work, from the world is a good thing. It causes more problems and is more bloated than any other piece of software since WP.
It needs a decent time slot to get an audience. If they'd actually show the darn thing, people would watch it. Half the time it's pre-empted for either football or baseball. My suggestion is that fox never even try to have an original program at 6:00 central on a Sunday night. Just show a re-run on those few nights when there isn't some stupid sporting event.
Depends on which version you are using. I've heard 6 made some huge executables. But you also have to know what to put in your uses clause. Take out what you don't need. Shoot, if you are willing to make the api calls, you can just put windows in your uses clause and you can get quite small apps.
If there is one downside to Delphi is that it doesn't make it clear that you can remove things from the default uses clause if you don't need them. Someone just starting out might assume that everything there must be there. Not so.
I'd pick Delphi too.
The question that really matters is what languages the programmers know and how capable they are when it comes to using a new language if it comes to it.
I have an HP photo/slide/negative scanner, but it's unimpressive.
But don't scanners use the same kind of chips that the cameras do? I thought scanners used ccd as well, but I'm willing to be called an idiot. (I'm posting on/., so of course I must be) But my first thought was that scanners should also improve with these chips. And scanners are much cheaper than cameras to buy.
Wild guess, and if right I don't know why removing the link would fix it, but if fast save is on and you are doing a lot of revisions, deletions, etc., you can easily bump up a file's size because fast save never actually deletes any of the text you delete. Makes it easy to recover someone's first draft, which has been done.
Example: install Ximian Gnome, which supposedly represents the 'friendliest' Linux GUI.
Now try right-clicking on a compressed.tar or.tgz file. You'll notice there is no option to decompress such files.
Well, I'm not sure Gnome qualifies as the friendliest. There are a number of things KDE does better, and this is one of them. In konq, you can right click on a compressed file and either uncompress it right there or open it in Archiver and uncompress it anywhere you want.
And yes, XP does now have unzip capabilities built in, as well as the cd burning software.
Not to get to OT, but another problem I had with Nautilus was that if you opened up a directory with a lot of pictures in it, it would eventually throw up its hands and say there were too many files to read. KDE never did that.
I love it. It is a great way to teach people not to trust everything they read on the net. And WhiteKnight, all the info is made up. The SEC made sure that you can't invest in the company or use the made up info to actually lose money. That was in the article.
We have often joked about doing something similar with viruses. Setting up a hotmail account and sending all the user in our department an attachment. The attachment would write to a log on our network and put up a dialog box that said something like "So you just ran a program from some joker on the internet. You've just lost all your work and your boss has been notified."
True. But one thing I haven't seen yet is the fact that most backups aren't full backups. You do a full backup maybe one a month or once a year. Every other backup is a diff only. So while the initial backup may take several tapes, the nightly backups shouldn't. At least on the type of system where the data is basically the same from day to day, which was the point of the article.
Plus, as described in the article, where the point was to have a singe hard drive based storage for dvd's and cd's, if there was a drive failure, you could just take the original media and do the rip again. Annoying yes, but doable. You haven't lost data unless the fire burned down your house and melted the cd's at the same time it took out your storage. That's why companies buy fire safes and use off-site storage.
I've heard talk of this over a year ago, and while at first it sounded like a really overblown idea, the more database work I do, the more interesting it becomes.
There are a few problems though:
Boot media. Right now, in the windows world, most boot floppies are fat12. NTFS won't fit on a single boot floppy. And it is a pain in the butt to make a bootable cd when compared to making a bootable floppy.
So what happens when you need to boot from something other than your hard drive? How easy will it be to make a boot cd?
What about the way MS keeps things hidden from you? Try this in XP: make a directory. Put 1 file in it called "testme" with no file extension. Open the file and type in the word "apple". Now do a search for all files containing the word apple in that directory. Windows won't find it.
What happens when you do something with a file that the relational database can't handle?
Done well, this has the potential to be really cool. I doubt it will be done well.
I have a master's degree in English Literature, with an emphasis on Early English Literature and Folklore. I have presented a paper at a conference, had it published in the proceedings, and was probably going to pursue a doctorate.
But I met my wife, moved to the city where she lived and needed something to do. Pursuing a doctorate in her city would have been problematic (Ask me about in-state school rivalries sometime you want an earful.) so I went in to law school, figuring if I made it out I could do wills and real estate transactions.
While there, I worked on the college's computers. This wasn't a big leap since I had been using and playing with computers since I was making sprites move on my old Commodore 64 and figuring out how to cheat at Jumpman. I turned that part time student job into a full time job and dropped out of law school.
So that's the story of how a guy who used to have the tale type index numbers memorized now sets up webservers, writes code for a Novell network, and when needed does helldesk.
As opposed to MS and Windows, where you have ME, 2000, XP home (which has crippled networking), XP professional, wince. There's not much difference.
The "fragmentation" is real of course, but it won't make any difference at the moment. Where it will make a difference is in about 5 years when instead of syncing with their laptops, people will want to sync with other peoples' handhelds. More than just flashing your business card to someone 5 feet away. People will want to share whole documents and calendars among different handhelds.
Now at that point an open standard becomes necessary, probably xml would be the best method of storing the data. But even then it won't matter if the display is run through gtk, qt, x framebuffer or through the windows display. The important thing will be that the data can be transmitted.
Of course this could be needed now, I don't use a handheld.
Well, since KDE is a window manager, it is no more responsible for making sure a user can read a word file than Microsoft is for making sure you can read a psd, pdf, or wpd file in Windows. (Photoshop, Acrobat, or WordPerfect respectively)
It would be the responsibility of the distribution, i.e., Red Hat, Mandrake, SUSE, to make sure that you had a copy of Open Office or the Microsoft Word Viewer+wine combo installed on your computer.
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Now if only Babylon 5 could get the same treatment. Buffy is on the way. And Simpsons 1st season is out.
Can you explain why you don't think this is long enough?
I suppose I should have phrased that as "I prefer the longer copyright term to the shorter patent term." I had put in some commments on patents then decided that they were a little OT and deleted them, and didn't clarify the previous statement which made more sense with the patent stuff left in. I think taking care of grandchildren is a good spot to end it.
It is more likely the case that the true classics of literature and art are not appreciated at the time.
How would you like it if you saw the work that your spouse or parent create bastardized? Don't you think it would upset you to see something your parents worked so hard to create (say a wonderful symphony) used to sell tampons during soap operas?
No it wouldn't. The most ethical solution would be for the government to pretty much stay out of the way, doing only what is necessary to protect the ability of creators to have some control over their creation for a reasonable amount of time.
Actually, I prefer a longer copyright term to help protect the families of artists. For example, in the comic book world it appears that dc has reformed a little since their treatment of the Siegel and Schuster, the creators of Superman. When Gil Kaine died, they apparently re-issued some of his work so that his family could get some royalty checks at a time of financial need. That's a good thing in my opinion.
If I write the great American Novel, or the great American Song, or the great American Software package, I should be able to say how my creation is distributed and used. And I would want my wife to be able to receive an income from my work after my death.
Please note that copyright is different from patents.
Can CSS2 easily do linked, autonumbered footnotes/endnotes? I don't know, I haven't looked through the spec that much.
Until I found Open Office, that was a feature I really needed that none of the other editors, except for WordPerfect which I loathe, could do for me. I need a program where I can add and remove footnotes/endnotes and have all the numbers automatically updated.
If you are on AOL you can have the familiar AOL interface to do your shopping and those same companies can provide shopping by more traditional means (HTML, etc.) while still using a AOL account.
I am not an AOL user any more (I was about 5 years ago), so I could easily be mistaken. I thought AOL already does this for some of its partner stores. You could buy things at the partner store and they'd just end up on your aol bill.
But I could easily be misremembering from years ago.
Press releases have been masquerading as news for a long time. I worked in a small office once where we sent out press releases saying that this person had sold so much insurance or that person had sold so many dollars worth of real estate. They were advertisements, pure and simple. But they were presented in the local paper as a real news story.
The only difference is that in this case the ad is paid for and presented as news instead of being "free" for those places that write their own press releases.
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Actually I get attacked a lot from wandaoo.fr. So banning France here would be an option. I get attacked more from there than from Asia.
There are at least two different ways to think about overpopulation. The first is pure density, so many people in so many square miles. That's what you are talking about.
Then there's the birthrate. I believe the us birthrate is something like 2.0(I could be wrong about the exact figure, but I know the sense is right), which means 2 babies born for every 2 people in the country. Some quick thought will realize that this is not enough for population replacement. The replacement birthrate is something like 2.4 live births for every 2 people in the population, because you have people who die before they reproduce, childless couples, etc. In the past 100 years or so, the trend has been that the the more developed the country is, the lower the birth rate. So while a particular county may have a very high population density, the people there are not reproducting at a rate that can sustain that population. The population is sustained through immagration (hence Buchannan's book where he advocates all the white folks getting busy getting busy and pumping out more white kids.) Generally speaking, the more educated you are, the fewer kids you have.
Plus, San Mateo has enough resources available to feed its population. This is not always the case in what are called 3rd world countries.
So while San Mateo has more people per square mile, those people all have a higher standard of living and their population is stable. They aren't necessarily overpopulated for their geographic area. Meanwhile, in a 3rd world country the population is increasing while the standard of living and education is not.
Personally, I think it wouldn't be a bad idea if a random sampling of half the population of the planet never had kids and those that remained had only 1 or 2 kids. Random would remove all possibility of bias. There are too damn many people everywhere.
only the TiVo will scan the listings for stuff that it thinks you'll like and then record it
I don't know, that's why the tv guide is in the toilet. What I'm waiting for is something that will truly replace my vhs vcr. I want to be able to record shows and then put the medium somewhere.
The hacks to hook the pvr to my pc make the pvr a much more attractive buy. All I'd have to do is run some cabling to the computer when I wanted to store something permanently. But from the looks of the links, it's not quite there yet. Especially considering my vcr is working just fine. Now if I were to need to replace my vcr, it would be a different situation. The times I actually tape and archive stuff is rare. With cable, everything is always on again sometime, except for shows I know are doomed before they even air, viz. The Tick, Lonegunmen.
Back in the distant mists of time, when we had cc:mail in house, messages were deleted from the server after 15 days. Since it was not pop3 and all messages were kept right on the server instead of downloaded to your hard drive, it meant that after 15 days it was gone for good. In theory, backups were made. But the person in charge of cc:mail and the backups had . . . issues with the backup, so itwas hit and miss anyway.
If people wanted to keep a message, they did what every one using these e-mail shredders will do: either print it directly or copy and paste it into word and print it from there.
Media Player = RealPlayer Eradicator
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Anything that will wipe realplayer, a really nasty piece of work, from the world is a good thing. It causes more problems and is more bloated than any other piece of software since WP.
It needs a decent time slot to get an audience. If they'd actually show the darn thing, people would watch it. Half the time it's pre-empted for either football or baseball. My suggestion is that fox never even try to have an original program at 6:00 central on a Sunday night. Just show a re-run on those few nights when there isn't some stupid sporting event.
Depends on which version you are using. I've heard 6 made some huge executables. But you also have to know what to put in your uses clause. Take out what you don't need. Shoot, if you are willing to make the api calls, you can just put windows in your uses clause and you can get quite small apps.
If there is one downside to Delphi is that it doesn't make it clear that you can remove things from the default uses clause if you don't need them. Someone just starting out might assume that everything there must be there. Not so.
I'd pick Delphi too.
The question that really matters is what languages the programmers know and how capable they are when it comes to using a new language if it comes to it.
I have an HP photo/slide/negative scanner, but it's unimpressive.
But don't scanners use the same kind of chips that the cameras do? I thought scanners used ccd as well, but I'm willing to be called an idiot. (I'm posting on /., so of course I must be) But my first thought was that scanners should also improve with these chips. And scanners are much cheaper than cameras to buy.
Anyone know what this will do to scanners?
Wild guess, and if right I don't know why removing the link would fix it, but if fast save is on and you are doing a lot of revisions, deletions, etc., you can easily bump up a file's size because fast save never actually deletes any of the text you delete. Makes it easy to recover someone's first draft, which has been done.
No way it should have been over 2 megs though.
Wow, they've really messed up the predator/prey ratio. Usually prey outnumber the predators by quite a bit.
Plus, the hype seems a bit Barnum-esque.
Yes to dead trees. Here's my top topics:
.NET/C#
Programming for QT3
Programming for KDE3
Programming for
Programming for Gnome/Mono
That should take you into the future.
Now try right-clicking on a compressed
Well, I'm not sure Gnome qualifies as the friendliest. There are a number of things KDE does better, and this is one of them. In konq, you can right click on a compressed file and either uncompress it right there or open it in Archiver and uncompress it anywhere you want.
And yes, XP does now have unzip capabilities built in, as well as the cd burning software.
Not to get to OT, but another problem I had with Nautilus was that if you opened up a directory with a lot of pictures in it, it would eventually throw up its hands and say there were too many files to read. KDE never did that.
I love it. It is a great way to teach people not to trust everything they read on the net. And WhiteKnight, all the info is made up. The SEC made sure that you can't invest in the company or use the made up info to actually lose money. That was in the article.
We have often joked about doing something similar with viruses. Setting up a hotmail account and sending all the user in our department an attachment. The attachment would write to a log on our network and put up a dialog box that said something like "So you just ran a program from some joker on the internet. You've just lost all your work and your boss has been notified."
We haven't done it of course, but we dream.
True. But one thing I haven't seen yet is the fact that most backups aren't full backups. You do a full backup maybe one a month or once a year. Every other backup is a diff only. So while the initial backup may take several tapes, the nightly backups shouldn't. At least on the type of system where the data is basically the same from day to day, which was the point of the article.
Plus, as described in the article, where the point was to have a singe hard drive based storage for dvd's and cd's, if there was a drive failure, you could just take the original media and do the rip again. Annoying yes, but doable. You haven't lost data unless the fire burned down your house and melted the cd's at the same time it took out your storage. That's why companies buy fire safes and use off-site storage.
I've heard talk of this over a year ago, and while at first it sounded like a really overblown idea, the more database work I do, the more interesting it becomes.
There are a few problems though:
Boot media. Right now, in the windows world, most boot floppies are fat12. NTFS won't fit on a single boot floppy. And it is a pain in the butt to make a bootable cd when compared to making a bootable floppy.
So what happens when you need to boot from something other than your hard drive? How easy will it be to make a boot cd?
What about the way MS keeps things hidden from you? Try this in XP: make a directory. Put 1 file in it called "testme" with no file extension. Open the file and type in the word "apple". Now do a search for all files containing the word apple in that directory. Windows won't find it.
What happens when you do something with a file that the relational database can't handle?
Done well, this has the potential to be really cool. I doubt it will be done well.
I miss the "Welcome to Crackers" security setting. Oh well.
I have a master's degree in English Literature, with an emphasis on Early English Literature and Folklore. I have presented a paper at a conference, had it published in the proceedings, and was probably going to pursue a doctorate.
But I met my wife, moved to the city where she lived and needed something to do. Pursuing a doctorate in her city would have been problematic (Ask me about in-state school rivalries sometime you want an earful.) so I went in to law school, figuring if I made it out I could do wills and real estate transactions.
While there, I worked on the college's computers. This wasn't a big leap since I had been using and playing with computers since I was making sprites move on my old Commodore 64 and figuring out how to cheat at Jumpman. I turned that part time student job into a full time job and dropped out of law school.
So that's the story of how a guy who used to have the tale type index numbers memorized now sets up webservers, writes code for a Novell network, and when needed does helldesk.
As opposed to MS and Windows, where you have ME, 2000, XP home (which has crippled networking), XP professional, wince. There's not much difference.
The "fragmentation" is real of course, but it won't make any difference at the moment. Where it will make a difference is in about 5 years when instead of syncing with their laptops, people will want to sync with other peoples' handhelds. More than just flashing your business card to someone 5 feet away. People will want to share whole documents and calendars among different handhelds.
Now at that point an open standard becomes necessary, probably xml would be the best method of storing the data. But even then it won't matter if the display is run through gtk, qt, x framebuffer or through the windows display. The important thing will be that the data can be transmitted.
Of course this could be needed now, I don't use a handheld.
Well, since KDE is a window manager, it is no more responsible for making sure a user can read a word file than Microsoft is for making sure you can read a psd, pdf, or wpd file in Windows. (Photoshop, Acrobat, or WordPerfect respectively)
It would be the responsibility of the distribution, i.e., Red Hat, Mandrake, SUSE, to make sure that you had a copy of Open Office or the Microsoft Word Viewer+wine combo installed on your computer.
Now if only Babylon 5 could get the same treatment. Buffy is on the way. And Simpsons 1st season is out.
Anyone have any more info?
Can you explain why you don't think this is long enough?
I suppose I should have phrased that as "I prefer the longer copyright term to the shorter patent term." I had put in some commments on patents then decided that they were a little OT and deleted them, and didn't clarify the previous statement which made more sense with the patent stuff left in. I think taking care of grandchildren is a good spot to end it.
It is more likely the case that the true classics of literature and art are not appreciated at the time.
How would you like it if you saw the work that your spouse or parent create bastardized? Don't you think it would upset you to see something your parents worked so hard to create (say a wonderful symphony) used to sell tampons during soap operas?
That would be the most ethical solution
No it wouldn't. The most ethical solution would be for the government to pretty much stay out of the way, doing only what is necessary to protect the ability of creators to have some control over their creation for a reasonable amount of time.
Actually, I prefer a longer copyright term to help protect the families of artists. For example, in the comic book world it appears that dc has reformed a little since their treatment of the Siegel and Schuster, the creators of Superman. When Gil Kaine died, they apparently re-issued some of his work so that his family could get some royalty checks at a time of financial need. That's a good thing in my opinion.
If I write the great American Novel, or the great American Song, or the great American Software package, I should be able to say how my creation is distributed and used. And I would want my wife to be able to receive an income from my work after my death.
Please note that copyright is different from patents.
Can CSS2 easily do linked, autonumbered footnotes/endnotes? I don't know, I haven't looked through the spec that much.
Until I found Open Office, that was a feature I really needed that none of the other editors, except for WordPerfect which I loathe, could do for me. I need a program where I can add and remove footnotes/endnotes and have all the numbers automatically updated.
If you are on AOL you can have the familiar AOL interface to do your shopping and those same companies can provide shopping by more traditional means (HTML, etc.) while still using a AOL account.
I am not an AOL user any more (I was about 5 years ago), so I could easily be mistaken. I thought AOL already does this for some of its partner stores. You could buy things at the partner store and they'd just end up on your aol bill.
But I could easily be misremembering from years ago.
Press releases have been masquerading as news for a long time. I worked in a small office once where we sent out press releases saying that this person had sold so much insurance or that person had sold so many dollars worth of real estate. They were advertisements, pure and simple. But they were presented in the local paper as a real news story.
The only difference is that in this case the ad is paid for and presented as news instead of being "free" for those places that write their own press releases.