My mom uses her crackberry to text me when she's buying presents for my son. I imagine a lot of people use their blackberry's that way. So now we are back to Christmas shopping circa 1985. It's positively barbaric!
Maybe if you liked Apple Pie and Football you might get invited out to the thursday night poker tournament. People don't avoid you because you know computers. People avoid you because you are obviously contemptuous of their culture. I'd bet you'd find plenty of these NASCAR gun toting get-r-doners that would run rings around you in a machine shop or working on making stuff at home or working on the yard and solving some interesting problems to do so.
Guess the question is, if you are the one being so exploited, then, whose really the mouthbreather, you, or them?
Just because they don't have action poses or quick witted dialog on TV shows. No, a lot of times, Nerds just like to figure things out, and actually think. Letting people actually think, play, experiment, and make stuff is what made the USA great. Having a bunch of idiots jabbering all the time is what wrecked the USA.
The stock answer for a modern DOS would be to hack up single user mode Linux. Or, just have Linux and startx and exit it when you feel like you need to.
The beauty of DOS was that one application owned the entire computer but unfortunately, modern hardware has made it beyond the ability of most programmers to really do everything and you genuinely need an operating system to manage all of it, and part of that is that I think even modern hardware is probably not real time itself. I mean, is a PC-Express bus real time guaranteed for different combinations of peripherals? I think everything is interrupt driven these days, and that's good. DOS was really often about programs that polled and did stupid stuff.
KDE was flying high with its well regarded 3.x version, and then its developers disappeared with lustery promises of how great KDE 4 would be, and emerged to ship a completely unfinished product. Things are better with KDE 4.later, but, KDE 4.0, wow, you are rough. Meanwhile KDevelop 4 still doesn't work, and has been eclipsed by, well, Eclipse.
remember thinking at the end of TPM: "Nice over-arching story telling, Lucas: The Emporer wins either way...
Yeah, really, the problem of the prequel trilogy, is that, for it to really work, you must have to have Anakin be more like a Shakespearean character, a moody, slow moving character study with lots of great dialog, almost soliloquies, and more. Do that, and you can really get to understand Anakin, Obi Wan, Yoda and more. You need to scratch the whole adventure side almost entirely, or, if you have it, have it in the first episode, like the phantom menace. TPM is the only one of the three episodes that could have worked in that regard. The 2nd was bad, and the 3rd was just terrible.
Everyone rips TPM because of Jar Jar, but I'd rather have an annoying but plausible character over a ridiculous concept of a guy being a Jedi knight for a bunch of years suddenly selling out the galactic republic because he had a bad dream. Revenge of the Sith was the most ridiculous thing ever made. There was no adequate reason or foreshadowing of Anakin's downfall, just a bunch of fanboys cheering when it happened. And frankly, if it was down to the Emperor vs Yoda + Obi Wan, why not take the Emperor down? They had the battle almost -won-.
In fact, really, the Phantom Menace was the only prequel that was actually any good at all.
So you're ok with putting innocent men in jail, just in case?
No, but the point is that the justice system serves a purpose to keep society safe. There is a probability that it will make mistakes and punish the innocent, and there is a social cost for that, and there is a cost to setting guilty men free. The most desirable outcome, logically, is the maximum of that system, and I highly doubt that the number is empirically 10.
Even though I'm pro-life in the "let's protect the unborn first and foremost by protecting women's rights and creating a socio-economic system where families can be stable and have widespread birth control", I would point out that Sanger was actually pro-life. Her whole deal of Eugenics was about using birth control to suppress the undesirables and she deplored more the active measures taken by the Fuhrer.
The other end result of course is that the Facebook group raised £70k for charity, and RATM are now pledging to donate the profits from sales of the record to charity too, something which I highly doubt Joe McElderberry, X-Factor winner, will do
First off, we have to wonder what "Profit" from the sale means. Profit might well mean, proceeds from the song after we pay for Rage's mortgages. Secondly, X-Factor and other shows like are really just lottery shows where the guy is going to win the prize once and that's pretty much his life. Saying that a mainstream popular act like Rage Against the Machine donating profits to charity is better than Joe Six Packs not donating to Charity is like saying Bill Gates donated the proceeds of Access to charity when he's still selling Windows, versus the author of Notepad++, which is all those guys do.
Yeah, but Rage Against the Machine totally sucks. X-Factor, Rage Against the Machine... who cares? It's all crap with the same end result. Instead of one lame act selling lots of records, another did.
It's not surprising that the occur less frequently, but that the exponent is the same across different wars and cultures did come as a surprise.
Not really. It's very likely the researchers threw out things and emphasized others to get the story that there was an exponential commonality to wars.
As for the anti-abortion, they just *need* to be dragged screaming and kicking into the century of the fruitbat. --
You are 100% right. I think we should start with a comprehensive national program to provide free abortions for everyone who is not of the sinful white race. We would educate all the mothers of minorities that they have rights, provide for them, with a special tax on white people, perhaps, because of their sinful state, to pay for it.
In fact, knowing that our planet is so terribly overpopulated, we could even work to save our beseiged planet and creatively encourage pregnant mothers of minority children to make the correct choices through the use of govnerment aid for her existing children as an incentive.
Let's see. It takes more energy, time, and complexity, to move into place the resources needed for a bigger attack. So, its not really surprising at all that bigger attacks occur less frequently or even obey a power law.
I don't think actually attempting to 'blow up' an asteroid has ever been an option.
I'm sure if Edward Teller were alive and in his prime, he would be before the President with a proposal to build a 1000MT anti-matter asteroid program. Indeed, when I was a young intern at RCA Aerospace and Defense, I had an Air Force white paper produced in conjunction with bomb boys outlining the advantages of an anti-matter based nuclear weapon and technology in general. Like, hey, a paper-clip mass of anti-matter could send the shuttle to the moon and back 500 times, or kill everyone in Russia, that sort of thing, but, jeez, we'd need to build a bunch of super colliders....
You must be forgetting about the GOP Congress in the 90s that had some balanced budgets.
Yes, and what did the GOP do with its libertarian plank? The social conservatives gave them the boot. Bob Dole, got the boot. God forbid, he raised the social security withholding tax to balance the trust fund. We had Dick Armey, got the boot. We had Trent Lott, got the boot. We had Newt Gingrich, got the boot. John McCain, got the boos. John Kasich, got the boot. George Voinovich, abandoned by the party.
All of our so-called RINO Republicans were the ones that balanced the budget. The social conservative crop we have out there now is the ones that gave us the fiscal catastrophe we have.
And remember: the government does not have to adhere to normal accounting principles, or else its annual losses would be tremendously higher.
The issue isn't that the accounting principals used by that the government are that horrible, in particular, the way all social security debt is valued as an expense today. It's really that FASB rules have gotten to be absolutely absurdly conservative for firms. Yes, there were Enrons out there to guard against, but, the way inventories are valued today, and expenses are handled, is really a giant joke and actually makes companies worse than they really are, and that actually did help provoke the banking crisis.
For example OpenGL has a lot of these and it's an excellent breading ground for the "glacially slow" standard standards.
Yeah, but many gaming houses have dropped OpenGL in favor of DirectX, because OpenGL hasn't kept up.
I see absolutely no issues here with requiring openness. It doesn't stifle innovation one bit.
You have a developer spending time on making a standard compliant file format, or have a developer adding a new feature and dumping it into a file any way he wants. The latter guy will have better tools, and the former guy will be interopable, but with less features.
Microsoft and other vendors can cry all they like. They don't want to compete on fairness. They want their customers locked down so they don't have a choice.,
No, the issue is that the open format causes you to spend money that could otherwise be made on adding new features. Compatibility with a standard is expensive and isn't as easy to sell as a new option of twisty text or new way of formatting a paragraph. Essentially open standards are an imposed stagnation on document creation tools, would be the argument. Of course, the counter argument is that interopability as a feature is more important than individual efficiency, but that's really a state vs individual argument and we seem to be in a state era now.
There is a cost to implementing a particular open file format. You either have to store your internal data structures to match the open format, thereby making it possibly more expensive for you to do those features that are not easily done in other format. Or, you have to build a transformative layer to go to the external open format, causing you to spend money such that you have to drop a feature.
So... the consumer does pay for open formats, and that is why closed formats won out initially. It's just now open systems are "catching up" and vendors of closed system have run out of ideas that makes this difference less important. That, the whole problem of transforming one graph to another is much better understood in the mainstream than it was 20 years ago.
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My mom uses her crackberry to text me when she's buying presents for my son. I imagine a lot of people use their blackberry's that way. So now we are back to Christmas shopping circa 1985. It's positively barbaric!
Maybe if you liked Apple Pie and Football you might get invited out to the thursday night poker tournament. People don't avoid you because you know computers. People avoid you because you are obviously contemptuous of their culture. I'd bet you'd find plenty of these NASCAR gun toting get-r-doners that would run rings around you in a machine shop or working on making stuff at home or working on the yard and solving some interesting problems to do so.
Guess the question is, if you are the one being so exploited, then, whose really the mouthbreather, you, or them?
Just because they don't have action poses or quick witted dialog on TV shows. No, a lot of times, Nerds just like to figure things out, and actually think. Letting people actually think, play, experiment, and make stuff is what made the USA great. Having a bunch of idiots jabbering all the time is what wrecked the USA.
The stock answer for a modern DOS would be to hack up single user mode Linux. Or, just have Linux and startx and exit it when you feel like you need to.
The beauty of DOS was that one application owned the entire computer but unfortunately, modern hardware has made it beyond the ability of most programmers to really do everything and you genuinely need an operating system to manage all of it, and part of that is that I think even modern hardware is probably not real time itself. I mean, is a PC-Express bus real time guaranteed for different combinations of peripherals? I think everything is interrupt driven these days, and that's good. DOS was really often about programs that polled and did stupid stuff.
Developer 1 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 2 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 3 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 4 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 5 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Developer 6 : Spent 12, Burned 0
Scrum Master : We have sprint review coming up...
Developer 2 : So, we have 500 hours of capacity, and 0 tasks burned...
Repeat 60 times
KDE was flying high with its well regarded 3.x version, and then its developers disappeared with lustery promises of how great KDE 4 would be, and emerged to ship a completely unfinished product. Things are better with KDE 4.later, but, KDE 4.0, wow, you are rough. Meanwhile KDevelop 4 still doesn't work, and has been eclipsed by, well, Eclipse.
remember thinking at the end of TPM: "Nice over-arching story telling, Lucas: The Emporer wins either way...
Yeah, really, the problem of the prequel trilogy, is that, for it to really work, you must have to have Anakin be more like a Shakespearean character, a moody, slow moving character study with lots of great dialog, almost soliloquies, and more. Do that, and you can really get to understand Anakin, Obi Wan, Yoda and more. You need to scratch the whole adventure side almost entirely, or, if you have it, have it in the first episode, like the phantom menace. TPM is the only one of the three episodes that could have worked in that regard. The 2nd was bad, and the 3rd was just terrible.
Everyone rips TPM because of Jar Jar, but I'd rather have an annoying but plausible character over a ridiculous concept of a guy being a Jedi knight for a bunch of years suddenly selling out the galactic republic because he had a bad dream. Revenge of the Sith was the most ridiculous thing ever made. There was no adequate reason or foreshadowing of Anakin's downfall, just a bunch of fanboys cheering when it happened. And frankly, if it was down to the Emperor vs Yoda + Obi Wan, why not take the Emperor down? They had the battle almost -won-.
In fact, really, the Phantom Menace was the only prequel that was actually any good at all.
Last time I checked, human life was animal life.
You are only human if you read and write American.
So you're ok with putting innocent men in jail, just in case?
No, but the point is that the justice system serves a purpose to keep society safe. There is a probability that it will make mistakes and punish the innocent, and there is a social cost for that, and there is a cost to setting guilty men free. The most desirable outcome, logically, is the maximum of that system, and I highly doubt that the number is empirically 10.
Just as it is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer
It's really not better to let ten guilty men go free, though. That's the thing.
Margaret Sanger [wikipedia.org], is that you?
Even though I'm pro-life in the "let's protect the unborn first and foremost by protecting women's rights and creating a socio-economic system where families can be stable and have widespread birth control", I would point out that Sanger was actually pro-life. Her whole deal of Eugenics was about using birth control to suppress the undesirables and she deplored more the active measures taken by the Fuhrer.
The other end result of course is that the Facebook group raised £70k for charity, and RATM are now pledging to donate the profits from sales of the record to charity too, something which I highly doubt Joe McElderberry, X-Factor winner, will do
First off, we have to wonder what "Profit" from the sale means. Profit might well mean, proceeds from the song after we pay for Rage's mortgages. Secondly, X-Factor and other shows like are really just lottery shows where the guy is going to win the prize once and that's pretty much his life. Saying that a mainstream popular act like Rage Against the Machine donating profits to charity is better than Joe Six Packs not donating to Charity is like saying Bill Gates donated the proceeds of Access to charity when he's still selling Windows, versus the author of Notepad++, which is all those guys do.
.music lovers taking back the Christmas #1 slot.
Yeah, but Rage Against the Machine totally sucks. X-Factor, Rage Against the Machine... who cares? It's all crap with the same end result. Instead of one lame act selling lots of records, another did.
Other than Mathmatica? WHO/
Pascal.
It's not surprising that the occur less frequently, but that the exponent is the same across different wars and cultures did come as a surprise.
Not really. It's very likely the researchers threw out things and emphasized others to get the story that there was an exponential commonality to wars.
As for the anti-abortion, they just *need* to be dragged screaming and kicking into the century of the fruitbat.
--
You are 100% right. I think we should start with a comprehensive national program to provide free abortions for everyone who is not of the sinful white race. We would educate all the mothers of minorities that they have rights, provide for them, with a special tax on white people, perhaps, because of their sinful state, to pay for it.
In fact, knowing that our planet is so terribly overpopulated, we could even work to save our beseiged planet and creatively encourage pregnant mothers of minority children to make the correct choices through the use of govnerment aid for her existing children as an incentive.
Let's see. It takes more energy, time, and complexity, to move into place the resources needed for a bigger attack. So, its not really surprising at all that bigger attacks occur less frequently or even obey a power law.
I don't think actually attempting to 'blow up' an asteroid has ever been an option.
I'm sure if Edward Teller were alive and in his prime, he would be before the President with a proposal to build a 1000MT anti-matter asteroid program. Indeed, when I was a young intern at RCA Aerospace and Defense, I had an Air Force white paper produced in conjunction with bomb boys outlining the advantages of an anti-matter based nuclear weapon and technology in general. Like, hey, a paper-clip mass of anti-matter could send the shuttle to the moon and back 500 times, or kill everyone in Russia, that sort of thing, but, jeez, we'd need to build a bunch of super colliders....
You must be forgetting about the GOP Congress in the 90s that had some balanced budgets.
Yes, and what did the GOP do with its libertarian plank? The social conservatives gave them the boot. Bob Dole, got the boot. God forbid, he raised the social security withholding tax to balance the trust fund. We had Dick Armey, got the boot. We had Trent Lott, got the boot. We had Newt Gingrich, got the boot. John McCain, got the boos. John Kasich, got the boot. George Voinovich, abandoned by the party.
All of our so-called RINO Republicans were the ones that balanced the budget. The social conservative crop we have out there now is the ones that gave us the fiscal catastrophe we have.
And remember: the government does not have to adhere to normal accounting principles, or else its annual losses would be tremendously higher.
The issue isn't that the accounting principals used by that the government are that horrible, in particular, the way all social security debt is valued as an expense today. It's really that FASB rules have gotten to be absolutely absurdly conservative for firms. Yes, there were Enrons out there to guard against, but, the way inventories are valued today, and expenses are handled, is really a giant joke and actually makes companies worse than they really are, and that actually did help provoke the banking crisis.
You mean president Bush and the Democrat congress? Put the blame where it belong, it wasn't the Repubs that passed the spending bills.
WHERE WAS THE VETO?
For example OpenGL has a lot of these and it's an excellent breading ground for the "glacially slow" standard standards.
Yeah, but many gaming houses have dropped OpenGL in favor of DirectX, because OpenGL hasn't kept up.
I see absolutely no issues here with requiring openness. It doesn't stifle innovation one bit.
You have a developer spending time on making a standard compliant file format, or have a developer adding a new feature and dumping it into a file any way he wants. The latter guy will have better tools, and the former guy will be interopable, but with less features.
Microsoft and other vendors can cry all they like. They don't want to compete on fairness. They want their customers locked down so they don't have a choice.,
No, the issue is that the open format causes you to spend money that could otherwise be made on adding new features. Compatibility with a standard is expensive and isn't as easy to sell as a new option of twisty text or new way of formatting a paragraph. Essentially open standards are an imposed stagnation on document creation tools, would be the argument. Of course, the counter argument is that interopability as a feature is more important than individual efficiency, but that's really a state vs individual argument and we seem to be in a state era now.
There is a cost to implementing a particular open file format. You either have to store your internal data structures to match the open format, thereby making it possibly more expensive for you to do those features that are not easily done in other format. Or, you have to build a transformative layer to go to the external open format, causing you to spend money such that you have to drop a feature.
So... the consumer does pay for open formats, and that is why closed formats won out initially. It's just now open systems are "catching up" and vendors of closed system have run out of ideas that makes this difference less important. That, the whole problem of transforming one graph to another is much better understood in the mainstream than it was 20 years ago.