So that's what kids' science education is boiling down to? Standing still and holding a mirror?
I dunno, I think having Mythbusters successfully "busting" themselves would be a worthwhile education for most kids who don't realize how authoritative Mythbusters should be (not much to not at all).
They're mainly about entertainment, much like Top Gear is mainly about entertainment.
Corporations are a creation of government... they don't naturally exist without it. And without, they certainly couldn't dominate since they wouldn't exist to begin with.
Maybe some Corporations will go "Oh no, there's no government, we can't exist anymore" and just go poof and vanish.
But some will do as I said: if Governments are too weak and small, Corporations would become defacto governments.
Corporations in such areas will have their own "military"/security forces, own courts/tribunals etc.
What amazes me is that I now have a quad core 2.4GHz Intel i7 Xeon with 12 GB of triple-channel RAM and gigabit connection to the internet here at work in a university, and I still get uncomfortable lags with browsing.
I expected us to be in the sci-fi future by the time we had this kind of equipment...
One reason why so many things are still slow is because a lot of timeouts and delays are set to human-scale: on the order of seconds. Not milliseconds or microseconds.
The next reason is the speed of light isn't that fast.
And the last reason is what Intel giveth the Programmers taketh away. I'm guilty of this since I used to do 6502 machine code, but now write stuff in Perl (which on a modern machine can still do loops faster than a 1MHz 6502, but you can see where some of the speed gains have gone - I'm not sure how much work it would take for me to do a regexp match on a 6502 but I'm not going to even bother;) ).
It also depends on whether Apple does significant business in Denmark/Europe or not.
Apple is welcome to use an alternate country.
Libertarians would do well to realize that if Governments are too weak and small, Corporations would become defacto governments.
Then a Corporation could tell people "These are my fucking private Company Towns and Roads, you are welcome to live elsewhere, if you don't like the way I do things".
If you say Corporations can't do that because the Government would stop them, well then that's why there's this case going on. In Europe at least the Corporations are not yet the final authorities on what is allowed or not, no matter what some EULA or Company Policy says.
Farmer grows strawberries -> robot picks strawberries, robot breaks and needs spare parts -> "truck drivers to get those parts, the ship captains and crew to get them across the ocean,
You left out the part where the fertilizers, robots, spare parts, trucks, ships, planes, packaging are in effect mostly made of fossil fuels and/or require fossil fuels to operate.
The majority of the inputs are fossil fuels. Not the "growing strawberries".
Basically humans in "developed countries" eat fossil fuels.
An "industrial nation" farmer doesn't contribute as much to the strawberries in your bowl as someone working in an oil rig.
We are scarily dependent on fossil fuels. The oil must flow, or family atomics will be used:).
I mentioned "every now and then" - so not talking about the bugs, or specifically this particular alpha release. I'm talking about the direction/design/"dream". They keep moving widgets around for not good enough reasons.
That's very far from "Steve Jobs insanely great" right? In fact that situation is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE for a desktop OS. How many years of Ubuntu till 9.10 came out?
Yes the CLI alsamixer is bundled by default in the desktop 9.10 distro, but we're talking _desktop_ OS right? So you can end up with a situation where the mixer is somehow set to zero, you try the default sound volume control via the GUI and it doesn't help - the volume levels are way too low. Turns out you need to run alsamixer and push up the main mixer volume etc. IIRC 10.04 wasn't that great with sound either. Anyone have good news to report for 10.10? Sound "finally works"?
Fact is, stuff like "sound working" should be pretty basic for a "Desktop OS". I don't even recall people having the degree of stupid problems with sound on the Amiga or classic Mac or IIGS or ST. And XP certainly works better than Ubuntu in this area.
When you copy stuff to a clipboard, it should not vanish just because the original does. Otherwise it is NOT a clipboard. If the current batch of Desktop Linux designers do not think a working clipboard is a core feature for a Desktop GUI then they're sabotaging Desktop Linux as I said.
Lastly, how many of you use their GUIs to run a browser, and "screen" for window management for other stuff. How good really is your GUI if it can't do much better than screen in task management of many tasks? How old is screen.
I do use Ubuntu Linux, but as CLI machines/servers. Works well for that.
But anyone impressed by Ubuntu as a "Desktop Linux", has pretty low standards.
For many super powers, if you were smart, you'd only use them in secret and not play superhero.
"Usain Bolt" performance levels gets you manageable or even desirable attention. But if you start doing 100 metres in less than 5 seconds you start getting the wrong sort of attention.
Say you were mere "Spiderman" level, and persisted in wearing leotards and going after petty criminals, some Dubious Organization will capture you and start experimenting on you to figure out what makes you superhuman.
Of course if you were as powerful as Galactus there's no problem in revealing yourself.
Yep, nowadays you can learn a lot of stuff from the internet. For those it's more a matter of whether you want the "piece of paper" or not. Just from youtube alone you can learn undergrad stuff from MIT/Stanford/UNSW and even universities in India, guitar licks, to making a japanese omelette/omelet (tamagoyaki).
But some stuff requires physical equipment and tools that most people don't have access to. In an alternate universe public libraries would have physical tools, workshops and labs, rather than physical books - because books can be more easily duplicated:).
Every now and then when I look at what they are up to I wonder whether they are seriously trying to achieve "Desktop Linux" or are actually sabotaging it.
Thats why any decent hosting provider uses some front end servers, eventually with mod_security, so the back-end cluster has very restricted network setup only able to talk to the front servers.
Or maybe they should use IIS7 instead of Apache, more secure:).
I tried it out on my car and there definitely are blind spots. A car wouldn't fit in the blind spots, but a small motorcycle will, and these make up a high percentage of the vehicles here. Many motorcyclists here like to weave between cars.
If I bump into a car there's a high chance I won't kill anyone, not true for a motorcycle.
So I'm back to "overlap", and just turning my head to make sure nothing is to the sides when I'm changing lanes.
How do i know that pdf isn't maliciously crafted to infect my system. Html and css people, it's what is made for presentation of content on multiple systems.
HTML and CSS is for the "Researchers exploit PDF reader" report. PDF is for the "Researchers exploit browser" report.:).
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I can count the number of programmers sufficiently rounded enough to consider learning a functional language "trivial" on my fingers.
I think there are lot of very rounded programmers around here. Especially around the midriff.
They've all experienced much personal growth and have stretched their limits many times. They carry a lot of weight in any discussion.
So that's what kids' science education is boiling down to? Standing still and holding a mirror?
I dunno, I think having Mythbusters successfully "busting" themselves would be a worthwhile education for most kids who don't realize how authoritative Mythbusters should be (not much to not at all).
They're mainly about entertainment, much like Top Gear is mainly about entertainment.
Corporations are a creation of government... they don't naturally exist without it. And without, they certainly couldn't dominate since they wouldn't exist to begin with.
Maybe some Corporations will go "Oh no, there's no government, we can't exist anymore" and just go poof and vanish.
But some will do as I said: if Governments are too weak and small, Corporations would become defacto governments.
Corporations in such areas will have their own "military"/security forces, own courts/tribunals etc.
Weapons aren't evil when used to defend oneself.
They're only evil when the turret tinkering goes wrong...
The reality is- we changed it because it doesn't work. China hasn't learned that yet, but if history is anything to go by - they will.
I think you ignore the fact "if history is anything to go by" China has had emperors for thousands of years.
This democracy thing is quite "untested" in comparison.
There were countries with democracies in the past and they too collapsed or were destroyed.
India is a democracy, it's not proven that it will do significantly better than China in the long run.
What amazes me is that I now have a quad core 2.4GHz Intel i7 Xeon with 12 GB of triple-channel RAM and gigabit connection to the internet here at work in a university, and I still get uncomfortable lags with browsing.
I expected us to be in the sci-fi future by the time we had this kind of equipment...
One reason why so many things are still slow is because a lot of timeouts and delays are set to human-scale: on the order of seconds. Not milliseconds or microseconds.
The next reason is the speed of light isn't that fast.
And the last reason is what Intel giveth the Programmers taketh away. I'm guilty of this since I used to do 6502 machine code, but now write stuff in Perl (which on a modern machine can still do loops faster than a 1MHz 6502, but you can see where some of the speed gains have gone - I'm not sure how much work it would take for me to do a regexp match on a 6502 but I'm not going to even bother ;) ).
It also depends on whether Apple does significant business in Denmark/Europe or not.
Apple is welcome to use an alternate country.
Libertarians would do well to realize that if Governments are too weak and small, Corporations would become defacto governments.
Then a Corporation could tell people "These are my fucking private Company Towns and Roads, you are welcome to live elsewhere, if you don't like the way I do things".
If you say Corporations can't do that because the Government would stop them, well then that's why there's this case going on. In Europe at least the Corporations are not yet the final authorities on what is allowed or not, no matter what some EULA or Company Policy says.
Yes, bedside manner is important too. :)
So what's your definition of journalist? And as examples, maybe list one or two who would fall under that category nowadays?
In February 2009 the State Department asked all US missions abroad to list all installations whose loss could critically affect US national security.
Did they list the Kaaba in Mecca? ;)
Just because the machines were in Vatican City doesn't mean the machines belonged to the Vatican.
Maybe there's Internet access in Vatican City that outsiders can use.
Not sure if the WiFi in the Vatican Library also provides Internet access: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/vatican-library-to-reopen-next-week/
Copyright infringement isn't theft, otherwise prosecutors could use "theft laws" on infringers just to avoid dealing with the "fair use" stuff.
Farmer grows strawberries -> robot picks strawberries, robot breaks and needs spare parts -> "truck drivers to get those parts, the ship captains and crew to get them across the ocean,
You left out the part where the fertilizers, robots, spare parts, trucks, ships, planes, packaging are in effect mostly made of fossil fuels and/or require fossil fuels to operate.
The majority of the inputs are fossil fuels. Not the "growing strawberries".
Basically humans in "developed countries" eat fossil fuels.
An "industrial nation" farmer doesn't contribute as much to the strawberries in your bowl as someone working in an oil rig.
We are scarily dependent on fossil fuels. The oil must flow, or family atomics will be used :).
Yeah 9 seconds per berry is very slow - at that rate the Mexicans will still have their berry picking jobs in the USA for years to come.
Who picks the berries in Japan? The Brazilians?
Maybe not that well but it still does: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/sorting-1pb-with-mapreduce.html
The concrete is just for packaging. Easier to manage a pesky "immortal" that way, than one with nasty blades sticking out inconveniently ;).
Then can decide what to do with you when more convenient - e.g. send you to space (some random orbit, Moon, Mars, Alpha Centauri etc).
I'm not so familiar with the Highlander details, are you sure you will actually nap when that happens? Wouldn't you be conscious for much of the time?
http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd
I mentioned "every now and then" - so not talking about the bugs, or specifically this particular alpha release. I'm talking about the direction/design/"dream". They keep moving widgets around for not good enough reasons.
And some time ago, when I looked at 9.10 apparently there was no built-in GUI unified sound mixer: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10964/how-to-fix-sound-issues-in-ubuntu-9.10/
That's very far from "Steve Jobs insanely great" right? In fact that situation is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE for a desktop OS. How many years of Ubuntu till 9.10 came out?
Yes the CLI alsamixer is bundled by default in the desktop 9.10 distro, but we're talking _desktop_ OS right? So you can end up with a situation where the mixer is somehow set to zero, you try the default sound volume control via the GUI and it doesn't help - the volume levels are way too low. Turns out you need to run alsamixer and push up the main mixer volume etc. IIRC 10.04 wasn't that great with sound either. Anyone have good news to report for 10.10? Sound "finally works"?
Fact is, stuff like "sound working" should be pretty basic for a "Desktop OS". I don't even recall people having the degree of stupid problems with sound on the Amiga or classic Mac or IIGS or ST. And XP certainly works better than Ubuntu in this area.
Then there's the clipboard: http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1571237
When you copy stuff to a clipboard, it should not vanish just because the original does. Otherwise it is NOT a clipboard. If the current batch of Desktop Linux designers do not think a working clipboard is a core feature for a Desktop GUI then they're sabotaging Desktop Linux as I said.
Lastly, how many of you use their GUIs to run a browser, and "screen" for window management for other stuff. How good really is your GUI if it can't do much better than screen in task management of many tasks? How old is screen.
I do use Ubuntu Linux, but as CLI machines/servers. Works well for that.
But anyone impressed by Ubuntu as a "Desktop Linux", has pretty low standards.
For many super powers, if you were smart, you'd only use them in secret and not play superhero.
"Usain Bolt" performance levels gets you manageable or even desirable attention. But if you start doing 100 metres in less than 5 seconds you start getting the wrong sort of attention.
Say you were mere "Spiderman" level, and persisted in wearing leotards and going after petty criminals, some Dubious Organization will capture you and start experimenting on you to figure out what makes you superhuman.
Of course if you were as powerful as Galactus there's no problem in revealing yourself.
Meet me in a concrete factory and follow the signs there, I have a surprise for you. Don't worry, it won't kill you.
But you're going to wish you weren't one of those "highlander immortals" who can't die.
Certain forms of immortality are immensely overrated.
Yep, nowadays you can learn a lot of stuff from the internet. For those it's more a matter of whether you want the "piece of paper" or not. Just from youtube alone you can learn undergrad stuff from MIT/Stanford/UNSW and even universities in India, guitar licks, to making a japanese omelette/omelet (tamagoyaki).
:).
But some stuff requires physical equipment and tools that most people don't have access to. In an alternate universe public libraries would have physical tools, workshops and labs, rather than physical books - because books can be more easily duplicated
Every now and then when I look at what they are up to I wonder whether they are seriously trying to achieve "Desktop Linux" or are actually sabotaging it.
Thats why any decent hosting provider uses some front end servers, eventually with mod_security, so the back-end cluster has very restricted network setup only able to talk to the front servers.
Or maybe they should use IIS7 instead of Apache, more secure :).
I guess it depends on your mirrors.
I tried it out on my car and there definitely are blind spots. A car wouldn't fit in the blind spots, but a small motorcycle will, and these make up a high percentage of the vehicles here. Many motorcyclists here like to weave between cars.
If I bump into a car there's a high chance I won't kill anyone, not true for a motorcycle.
So I'm back to "overlap", and just turning my head to make sure nothing is to the sides when I'm changing lanes.
In most games they're not going to be that complex, otherwise you'd lose most of the time, or it stops getting fun.
Because most games humans play can be mastered by computers.
How do i know that pdf isn't maliciously crafted to infect my system. Html and css people, it's what is made for presentation of content on multiple systems.
HTML and CSS is for the "Researchers exploit PDF reader" report. :).
PDF is for the "Researchers exploit browser" report.