There is censorship in any form, internet or print in any country. It just happens to be that China is not as sophisticated in hiding their techniques as other countries that have had better practice at it.
That's the sort of meaningless statement that means you spent too much time in college.
Whatever you think is "censorship" in your 1st world western country ain't jack compared to the real thing. Saying that it is sucks - just the children of privilege pretending to be victims again.
Carter had to deal with the lingering effects of the first opec oil embargo, and the immediate effect of the second oil shock. You think maybe tripling energy costs might have had an effect on the economy, dumbass?
How charming you are... and the oil magnates just magically became cooperative when Reagan lifted price controls, did they? Quite a coincidence. And nobody before or since has had to deal with any external effects, eh?
The hugely expensive 600 ship navy was immediately trimmed, with unnecessary ships being mothballed. THey got built, delivering pork, but that's about it.
Neutered the Soviets, actually. Enabled us to prosecute every ship and submarine that crossed the SOSUS line. Of course, you probably are the sort that thinks the Soviets didn't need neutering, so there's not much point discussing it.
After seeing the Republican shenannigans in Florida,
You mean winning, then watching in disbelief as the loser filed a bunch of lawsuits, then fighting back?
The republican agenda is to push many in the middle class down into poverty - making people nervous about their livelihood (not to mention up-and-down terror alerts to generally make people scared) is the ideal formula for maximizing the profits for the rich.
Egad, you're on to us!
Next he'll suggest the tried and true solution of Carternomics...
... is that it is the Republican party who is about to exercise their first amendment rights, by having a convention. If the parties were reversed, the chalkers would be called "nazi thugs" or something.
People who are either kids, or are just barely not kids (i.e. most Slashdotters) don't like the rating system! Who woulda thunk it?;)
But seriously... grow up, have a few kids, and I don't think you'll mind having a few voluntary tools to keep them from becoming too coarse and vulger, too fast. Trash doesn't have to actually be harmful for you to want to keep your kids from wallowing in it.
After all, when that must-see, super duper important movie that the kids simply *have* to see comes out, you could just take them there yourself, you know. Or rent it, since movies come out on video about five minutes after they're released now.
Did you really read that link? I'm not following how a "container" is any different than a "start marker", the "contents", and the "end marker" in Word Perfect.
From what I've read from a variety of sources, a Word file is actually a serialized dump of Word memory. Which is horribly stupid, as a document format. Or horribly brilliant, I guess, from a business standpoint.
So no, the horror of Word may not be representable by rational codes...
1. The "standard" is the class that represents the document (i.e. the code of it + the generic object serialization code)
Why do it that way? Convenience for the programmer becomes lock in and pain for the user. And no wonder they get corrupted so often.
2. The "standard" changes between versions because the document classes change as new features are added. There is no deliberate policy to "break" things between versions, it is just a side effect.
Oh come now. A beloved, cherished side effect.
3. It is easy to use COM to instantiate Word from your own code and manipulate documents throught the API, so ".doc format" is fully accessible and reusable from your own code, just as it would be if it was "open source".
You have to have Word for that! Yeah, as "easy" as buying Word.
socialization still happens best in a real school and at a real playground
This may not be a technology prediction (but hey, he started it!) but I predict just the opposite. There is a steadily increasing trend of homeschooling, that crosses all walks of life, not just hippies or the strongly religious.
It's actually rather unnatural to be confined with a big herd of people only your own age, with a few (too few) adults hovering overhead like police helicopters trying to see what is going on.
I've never been able to figure out what "socialization" is supposed to mean, unless it means "learning to deal with weird, artificial conditions that you are unlikely to live in for the rest of your life after school age".
By the way, there are playgrounds and parks everywhere; you don't need to go to public school for that. Not to mention plenty of group activities and learning experiences that you don't need to be confined in a government institution to enjoy.
Yeah, and it was just as stupid to believe that Nixon ordered his goons to break into the Democratic National Comittee's headquarters and steal documents. Oh wait, that REALLY HAPPENED.
That Nixon ordered them to? I must have missed that memo.
Nixon's goons at least had a goal in mind. What, exactly, would setting up a pattern match for Ted accomplish? Force him to charter flights? Slow him down from reaching one destination, until he catches on? I hate to break it to you, but Ted Kennedy showing up somewhere doesn't really strike fear into the hearts of Republicans. I'm at a loss to see what possible hoped for gain would outweigh the obvious risk.
Even though it would have been a stupid thing for Bush to do, it's at least a possibility, unlike Kennedy getting himself on the list.
I suppose that anything is possible - I'm still baffled at what the goal would be. He can use the family money to charter a private plane anytime he wants, so I doubt that he could even be significantly slowed in getting anywhere. And however effective he might be at speaking to the party faithful, I don't think that the Bush administration is exactly quaking in their boots that he might get somewhere on time and speak.
He quite clearly *is* using his random match as a publicity stunt, though I agree with you that I don't see how he could have set it up.
I don't understand why we are jumping through hoops to have auto refresing JavaScript-full convoluted html webmail that interacts with some little utility in your tray. I mean, I understand the convenience of webmail, but I think that installing this is whre I would draw the line between simple & easy and flakey & klunky.
Because it works. I use GMail at home, at work, wherever, and it just works. Works in Mozilla or IE. I didn't have to set up my own IMAP server or anything crazy like that.
Yeah, I could (and do) ssh to my home box and read my POP mail with mutt, but even with GMail's occasional brief outages that has been less reliable than just using GMail. And it wouldn't help me when I'm sitting in a boring training seesion and can't really install Cygwin on the machine...
Seriously, where the hell do people get ideas like this. Obviouslyhe set himself up as a publicity stunt......oh wait.....HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER THIS LIST. Yep, you're just another one of those fools who for some reason don't want to believe that the current administraion could EVER mess up even when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It's just as stupid to believe that Bush deliberately targeted him for being a liberal democrat. What on earth would that accomplish that would be worth the risk of doing something so obvious and ready to backfire?
Yes, I'm sure the Bush administration deliberately decided to harras Ted Kennedy in such an obvious, ham-fisted way. that could so easily be twisted into anti-Bush, pro-Kennedy publicity.
Because the benefit balanced against such huge risk would just be so great; I mean God help the Republicans if Ted actually succeeds in flying anywhere. That delay will be crucial.
Excellent! MS are giving me, er, are going to give me, more email space:)
Combined with that great new file system that Microsoft gave, er, says that they are going to give me, my computing experience will be fantastic! Real soon now!
Take that, you smug GMail and Linux users; sure, you're laughing now, but just wait, I'll have the last laugh, um, real soon now...
Where is the business sense? Very serious about addressing security concerns? You don't select a product to run your production apps based on someone being very serious. When it comes to security concerns, you select a product based on the product's track record with security.
CIOs unfortunately have no business sense, when it comes to evaluating when to use open vs. closed source.
The problem is that a purchasing process that (presumably) makes sense when you are buying widgets or consumables breaks down when applied to software. If there is no vendor to make a pitch for it, (or if the vendors that do exist aren't huge money vacuums, beacuse they sell expertise instead of binaries) then it doesn't get considered properly.
High level managers understand contracts, quantities, maintenance contracts. They don't understand software. But they make the decisions.
I was pretty dissapointed when you didn't nominate Gore again (and I knew that there was no hope for Hillary, this time). That would have been fantastic!
I was even more disappointed (if that's possible) when the Deaniacs failed.
But now "CrimethInc", of the "Black Hat Hackers Bloc", is going to do denial of service attacks on Republican websites. Bwah, ha, ha:) Oh please, not the briar patch! Don't throw me into that thar briar patch:)
We often attribute poor language skills to teenagers, but the author's willingness to show adults with the same deficiencies is telling. Even the President of the United States appears unfocused and uneducated.
You really posted this whole story just to say that, didn't you?;)
In a massive, huge, prolonged test (I compared MSN and Google searches for the terms best browser and browser) I was expecting to see a bias toward Microsoft on MSN, and no bias on Google. While I did find the bias toward MS, I also found what I took to be a bias against Microsoft on Google!
No, I doubt that you were seeing an anti-MS bias on Google.
Google special magic is the way that it weights *links* to pages. This lets the web in general be the arbiter of what constitutes a good hit for, say, "browser" - if lots and lots of pages link to it using the word "browser", then it is probably a good hit.
All your test showed is that when people mention "browser" or "best browser", that they are more likely to be linking to Opera or Mozilla then to IE. Read into that what you will (if you are pro-MS, tell yourself that most IE users think of IE as the internet, not a browser, and they hardly need a link to it, because they already have it and it is all that they know).
1) Oldskool die-hard Doom lovers. These people have been around long enough that the concept of hardware upgrades is nothing new to them. Chances are they will currently have good enough hardware for Doom 3, or they will take it for granted that they will need an upgrade before they buy the game.
Hmm, that's me - I was playing Doom on my ultra-expensive 100MHz 486 laptop, underway on a submarine in 1995.
But I have a life (and wife and kids) now! I certainly am NOT on the upgrade treadmill anymore. I might have asked for this game for Christmas or something, but there's no way in hell I'm getting expensive hardware upgrades just to play a game I won't have much time for anyway.
So scratch #1 off your (and IDs) list, unless they're stuck in a time warp.
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There is censorship in any form, internet or print in any country. It just happens to be that China is not as sophisticated in hiding their techniques as other countries that have had better practice at it.
That's the sort of meaningless statement that means you spent too much time in college.
Whatever you think is "censorship" in your 1st world western country ain't jack compared to the real thing. Saying that it is sucks - just the children of privilege pretending to be victims again.
Carter had to deal with the lingering effects of the first opec oil embargo, and the immediate effect of the second oil shock. You think maybe tripling energy costs might have had an effect on the economy, dumbass?
How charming you are ... and the oil magnates just magically became cooperative when Reagan lifted price controls, did they? Quite a coincidence. And nobody before or since has had to deal with any external effects, eh?
The hugely expensive 600 ship navy was immediately trimmed, with unnecessary ships being mothballed. THey got built, delivering pork, but that's about it.
Neutered the Soviets, actually. Enabled us to prosecute every ship and submarine that crossed the SOSUS line. Of course, you probably are the sort that thinks the Soviets didn't need neutering, so there's not much point discussing it.
After seeing the Republican shenannigans in Florida,
You mean winning, then watching in disbelief as the loser filed a bunch of lawsuits, then fighting back?
The republican agenda is to push many in the middle class down into poverty - making people nervous about their livelihood (not to mention up-and-down terror alerts to generally make people scared) is the ideal formula for maximizing the profits for the rich.
Egad, you're on to us!
Next he'll suggest the tried and true solution of Carternomics ...
and forums full of all kinds of wonderful religious fanatics, ready to convert me to their cult. I love it!
You mean like the Church of the Self-Important Annoying Athiest, often represented by the mysterious symbols "/."? ;)
... is that it is the Republican party who is about to exercise their first amendment rights, by having a convention. If the parties were reversed, the chalkers would be called "nazi thugs" or something.
People who are either kids, or are just barely not kids (i.e. most Slashdotters) don't like the rating system! Who woulda thunk it? ;)
But seriously ... grow up, have a few kids, and I don't think you'll mind having a few voluntary tools to keep them from becoming too coarse and vulger, too fast. Trash doesn't have to actually be harmful for you to want to keep your kids from wallowing in it.
After all, when that must-see, super duper important movie that the kids simply *have* to see comes out, you could just take them there yourself, you know. Or rent it, since movies come out on video about five minutes after they're released now.
Did you really read that link? I'm not following how a "container" is any different than a "start marker", the "contents", and the "end marker" in Word Perfect.
From what I've read from a variety of sources, a Word file is actually a serialized dump of Word memory. Which is horribly stupid, as a document format. Or horribly brilliant, I guess, from a business standpoint.
So no, the horror of Word may not be representable by rational codes ...
1. The "standard" is the class that represents the document (i.e. the code of it + the generic object serialization code)
Why do it that way? Convenience for the programmer becomes lock in and pain for the user. And no wonder they get corrupted so often.
2. The "standard" changes between versions because the document classes change as new features are added. There is no deliberate policy to "break" things between versions, it is just a side effect.
Oh come now. A beloved, cherished side effect.
3. It is easy to use COM to instantiate Word from your own code and manipulate documents throught the API, so ".doc format" is fully accessible and reusable from your own code, just as it would be if it was "open source".
You have to have Word for that! Yeah, as "easy" as buying Word.
socialization still happens best in a real school and at a real playground
This may not be a technology prediction (but hey, he started it!) but I predict just the opposite. There is a steadily increasing trend of homeschooling, that crosses all walks of life, not just hippies or the strongly religious.
It's actually rather unnatural to be confined with a big herd of people only your own age, with a few (too few) adults hovering overhead like police helicopters trying to see what is going on.
I've never been able to figure out what "socialization" is supposed to mean, unless it means "learning to deal with weird, artificial conditions that you are unlikely to live in for the rest of your life after school age".
By the way, there are playgrounds and parks everywhere; you don't need to go to public school for that. Not to mention plenty of group activities and learning experiences that you don't need to be confined in a government institution to enjoy.
I, for one, welcome our new story-duplicating, supercomputer-mocking, Slashdot editor overlords ...
Yeah, and it was just as stupid to believe that Nixon ordered his goons to break into the Democratic National Comittee's headquarters and steal documents. Oh wait, that REALLY HAPPENED.
That Nixon ordered them to? I must have missed that memo.
Nixon's goons at least had a goal in mind. What, exactly, would setting up a pattern match for Ted accomplish? Force him to charter flights? Slow him down from reaching one destination, until he catches on? I hate to break it to you, but Ted Kennedy showing up somewhere doesn't really strike fear into the hearts of Republicans. I'm at a loss to see what possible hoped for gain would outweigh the obvious risk.
Even though it would have been a stupid thing for Bush to do, it's at least a possibility, unlike Kennedy getting himself on the list.
I suppose that anything is possible - I'm still baffled at what the goal would be. He can use the family money to charter a private plane anytime he wants, so I doubt that he could even be significantly slowed in getting anywhere. And however effective he might be at speaking to the party faithful, I don't think that the Bush administration is exactly quaking in their boots that he might get somewhere on time and speak.
He quite clearly *is* using his random match as a publicity stunt, though I agree with you that I don't see how he could have set it up.
I don't understand why we are jumping through hoops to have auto refresing JavaScript-full convoluted html webmail that interacts with some little utility in your tray. I mean, I understand the convenience of webmail, but I think that installing this is whre I would draw the line between simple & easy and flakey & klunky.
Because it works. I use GMail at home, at work, wherever, and it just works. Works in Mozilla or IE. I didn't have to set up my own IMAP server or anything crazy like that.
Yeah, I could (and do) ssh to my home box and read my POP mail with mutt, but even with GMail's occasional brief outages that has been less reliable than just using GMail. And it wouldn't help me when I'm sitting in a boring training seesion and can't really install Cygwin on the machine ...
Seriously, where the hell do people get ideas like this. Obviouslyhe set himself up as a publicity stunt......oh wait.....HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER THIS LIST. Yep, you're just another one of those fools who for some reason don't want to believe that the current administraion could EVER mess up even when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It's just as stupid to believe that Bush deliberately targeted him for being a liberal democrat. What on earth would that accomplish that would be worth the risk of doing something so obvious and ready to backfire?
Some of the comments here just amaze me.
Yes, I'm sure the Bush administration deliberately decided to harras Ted Kennedy in such an obvious, ham-fisted way. that could so easily be twisted into anti-Bush, pro-Kennedy publicity.
Because the benefit balanced against such huge risk would just be so great; I mean God help the Republicans if Ted actually succeeds in flying anywhere. That delay will be crucial.
What are you people, twelve? Oh, wait ...
Even if Gmail charged for their service, I'd pay for it because of its functionality.
Quiet, you fool! ;)
Excellent! MS are giving me, er, are going to give me, more email space :)
Combined with that great new file system that Microsoft gave, er, says that they are going to give me, my computing experience will be fantastic! Real soon now!
Take that, you smug GMail and Linux users; sure, you're laughing now, but just wait, I'll have the last laugh, um, real soon now ...
Which other email provider occasionally gives you the message "service unavailable, try again later"?
Well, GMail, sometimes. But it's still good enough that I don't care :)
On that note, almost every country has WMD right now. I think that makes the WMD case for war a bit daft, but that's just a personal opinion.
Only daft if you believe in moral equivalence.
If you can't see that, there's not much to discuss, unfortunately.
Where is the business sense? Very serious about addressing security concerns? You don't select a product to run your production apps based on someone being very serious. When it comes to security concerns, you select a product based on the product's track record with security.
CIOs unfortunately have no business sense, when it comes to evaluating when to use open vs. closed source.
The problem is that a purchasing process that (presumably) makes sense when you are buying widgets or consumables breaks down when applied to software. If there is no vendor to make a pitch for it, (or if the vendors that do exist aren't huge money vacuums, beacuse they sell expertise instead of binaries) then it doesn't get considered properly.
High level managers understand contracts, quantities, maintenance contracts. They don't understand software. But they make the decisions.
I was pretty dissapointed when you didn't nominate Gore again (and I knew that there was no hope for Hillary, this time). That would have been fantastic!
I was even more disappointed (if that's possible) when the Deaniacs failed.
But now "CrimethInc", of the "Black Hat Hackers Bloc", is going to do denial of service attacks on Republican websites. Bwah, ha, ha :) Oh please, not the briar patch! Don't throw me into that thar briar patch :)
In a communist economy, state owned monopolies protect the proletariat at the expense of profits and efficiency.
(Choke - coffee hits keyboard) Uh, what? You mean by sending them to gulags if they don't pretend to work while the monopolies pretend to pay them?
So this is where you'll tell me that it's just every implementation that ever happened that was horribly flawed, not communism itself ... OK ...
We often attribute poor language skills to teenagers, but the author's willingness to show adults with the same deficiencies is telling. Even the President of the United States appears unfocused and uneducated.
You really posted this whole story just to say that, didn't you? ;)
In a massive, huge, prolonged test (I compared MSN and Google searches for the terms best browser and browser) I was expecting to see a bias toward Microsoft on MSN, and no bias on Google. While I did find the bias toward MS, I also found what I took to be a bias against Microsoft on Google!
No, I doubt that you were seeing an anti-MS bias on Google.
Google special magic is the way that it weights *links* to pages. This lets the web in general be the arbiter of what constitutes a good hit for, say, "browser" - if lots and lots of pages link to it using the word "browser", then it is probably a good hit.
All your test showed is that when people mention "browser" or "best browser", that they are more likely to be linking to Opera or Mozilla then to IE. Read into that what you will (if you are pro-MS, tell yourself that most IE users think of IE as the internet, not a browser, and they hardly need a link to it, because they already have it and it is all that they know).
1) Oldskool die-hard Doom lovers. These people have been around long enough that the concept of hardware upgrades is nothing new to them. Chances are they will currently have good enough hardware for Doom 3, or they will take it for granted that they will need an upgrade before they buy the game.
Hmm, that's me - I was playing Doom on my ultra-expensive 100MHz 486 laptop, underway on a submarine in 1995.
But I have a life (and wife and kids) now! I certainly am NOT on the upgrade treadmill anymore. I might have asked for this game for Christmas or something, but there's no way in hell I'm getting expensive hardware upgrades just to play a game I won't have much time for anyway.
So scratch #1 off your (and IDs) list, unless they're stuck in a time warp.