Flamebait? Really? Damn mods. This is at least Interesting, if not somewhat Informative.
You* would do yourself a favor by putting yourself in the shoes of those who do see it this way. Open up a little bit to people who are different, and maybe more different people will actually get along with you instead of just learning to hate you.
Knowing that the US has done shit like this is somewhat angering to me, a US citizen. Sad that people see it that way, as well.
Really, if I just use man pages on the commands, that's all I need to be sure of what I'm doing, to be honest. But just doing copy and paste off the internet is still faster. Of course, as the previous replier stated, I usually write a wrapper for it. I just have a nice tendency of backing up that wrapper (or I wrote it for someone and don't want to use that code elsewhere, or I just have a new idea for that wrapper...).
I wouldn't separate that too much. Some of us exist that can do the "hard stuff" and might even find and fix a bug in some of the libraries from time to time. However, when we're just making an app that works and fits in with the environment, a lot of the "hard stuff" has been done and is likely to be less buggy and more consistent with the environment than redoing the whole thing ourselves. Then, if it's open source, we can just fix bugs we find in the "hard stuff" and focus more on what we're actually doing.
Hell, things like basic sockets and other things that are fairly easy, really--every once in a while I forget to back that up or something stupid and instead of just doing it all from memory and by hand, I just copy and paste it off the internet, then rework it to my liking (by this time, I know the commands, but copy and paste is just faster). Of course, some times I like to do things that have already been done, only try to do it in a new way, just as an exercise (I'm down to programming as a hobby at this point).
I wouldn't be too harsh on copy and pasting, though. It can be a great learning exercise if you peel it apart and actually understand exactly what is going on and the different ways you can alter it. It's also a great way to get to know an open source library and be able to fix any bugs you find, or even add features to it, if that's your fancy. That's generally how I've done anything in that regard, to be honest.
I would hope their "time warping" has something that separates it from doing it with VHS, specifically in the patent. Otherwise, I don't get how the USPTO didn't think about the VHS days when they let the patent by...
someone else is probably better than me at finding the patent in question... and I'm just too damn tired at this point to care.
Haha! Finally, someone has the exact same experience as me (up to a point, at least). My Gentoo box died, and when I got a new one up and going (newegg!), I just decided to try Kubuntu. In part, because I started seeing the weaknesses of portage too regularly, and in part, because I just didn't care to spend the time any more. All the basic stuff... I still know that from Gentoo (and it's easy to me). After that, it gets difficult to find it on Ubuntu's forums some times. Even Google gives me a lot of outdated ideas that just don't quite work right. Then I finally installed another partition of Gentoo. I'm not quite utilizing that yet, because I haven't devoted the time. But it's making me appreciate Gentoo like I used to again...
Goddamn, I'm 22 and don't know shit about history (relative to other topics), but I thought about this as I read the OP. In its own dark way, it's kinda funny...
But Google's promising 1Gbps, which they want to aim at the more rural areas. But if the rural areas are getting that, there's gonna be a bigger push for that in the urban areas. Maybe the market will demand around 100mbps by 2020, as competition does get higher. And Google could be a pretty scary competitor for some of those bigger ISPs...
It's not really switching sides, even if they do use it. This is more the people who give Google certain content not allowing it in one place or another. Or laws being more complicated or whatever b.s. is involved in the political realm of it. But this seems to be more about following copyright law more thoroughly as opposed to following any censorship laws.
... George, Washington has a rode called Bing Ave. Though street view does drive by it. I wonder what stopped them from just doing a couple circles and catching it all...
The designers are working with doctors on potential medical applications. The system could enable less-invasive ways to monitor pressure changes in the eyes, brain, and in tumors in patients with glaucoma, head trauma, or cancer. In the body, the sensor could conceivably harvest energy from movement or heat, rather than light, the engineers say.
Seems related to the Paul being the anti-christ theory that some are fond of. Definitely an interesting line of thought you can continuing adding on other points to (there's plenty out there, going several directions).
The stupid people are taking over, and they don't understand this "strong, objective, fact-based" mumbo-jumbo you speak of. They barely understand what you mean by journalism any more.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's somewhere in their contract that they can do this. When I read chunks of it a couple of years ago, there were a few unpleasant things in there. It used to have a clause saying you can't stream video or audio at all (specifically speaking of the contract with my phone at the time). Now, they don't stop me from using Pandora on my Droid, but I assume they changed that by now. Anyway, given that, I wouldn't be too surprised if it is spelled out in the fine print that a lot of people don't bother reading somewhere, at least that they reserve the right to block sites on their discretion. I don't actually know and don't care to sift through the damn contract right now, but there's just been a lot in their contracts over the years that a lot of people don't know anything about...
I got the original G1 phone from google when it came out, and I hardly ever used it. Why? I generally hate phones - they are irritating and disturb you as you work or read or whatever - and a cellphone to me is just an opportunity to be irritated wherever you are. Which is not a good thing.
At the same time I love the concept of having a phone that runs Linux, and I've had a number of them over the years (in addition to the G1, I had one of the early China-only Motorola Linux phones) etc. But my hatred of phones ends up resulting in me not really ever using them. The G1, for example, ended up being mostly used for playing Galaga and Solitaire on long flights, since I had almost no reason to carry it with me except when traveling.
Well. There IS a book called "Why do men have nipples?" that in a quite limited sample of the general population (being the people I know) is a rather popular book. One that I keep coming across someone deciding to read at least once a year or more. It's bizarre, and it's filled with such random questions. However, it gives a damn good reason why that one would come up on top of others...
Only thing about that: these days, everyone conforms in order to not conform. If you don't conform to the "non-conformists" then you're not "conforming". Hence you get different groups all trying to go to some extreme of something, all of which is the same to the whole group. Case in point: a certain group when I was in high school always talked about how evil conforming was, but you looked at them and they all looked the same, with their torn jeans and long, unkempt hair. Those of us that realize look on in bafflement. If you're like me, you just say, "fuck that," and really pull off non-conformity. But the true meaning of that seems to be lost to a lot of people. Really, you need to understand this quote: You're unique, just like everyone else.
Killed? There's no need to kill 'em. Besides, watching them recover cognitively and emotionally after a thorough beating is almost more fun than the beating itself (depending on the bully)!
You know, this is my thought. When I was going to high school in Wisconsin, I was riding my bike through the snow as much as 2.5 miles to school and back home every day. Even there, people thought I was rather crazy, but it wasn't bad, really. Once I learned how to handle the ice and other such sketchy situations introduced by the weather, it wasn't bad. Hell, being comfortable in a t-shirt by the end of it during below freezing temperatures was worth it, in its own just fun way.
Sure, weather might stop some, but the extreme weather just makes it that much better for others!
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What drugs are you on that defy aging so well?!
Flamebait? Really? Damn mods. This is at least Interesting, if not somewhat Informative.
You* would do yourself a favor by putting yourself in the shoes of those who do see it this way. Open up a little bit to people who are different, and maybe more different people will actually get along with you instead of just learning to hate you.
Knowing that the US has done shit like this is somewhat angering to me, a US citizen. Sad that people see it that way, as well.
* the mods.
ME.
Really, if I just use man pages on the commands, that's all I need to be sure of what I'm doing, to be honest. But just doing copy and paste off the internet is still faster. Of course, as the previous replier stated, I usually write a wrapper for it. I just have a nice tendency of backing up that wrapper (or I wrote it for someone and don't want to use that code elsewhere, or I just have a new idea for that wrapper...).
I wouldn't separate that too much. Some of us exist that can do the "hard stuff" and might even find and fix a bug in some of the libraries from time to time. However, when we're just making an app that works and fits in with the environment, a lot of the "hard stuff" has been done and is likely to be less buggy and more consistent with the environment than redoing the whole thing ourselves. Then, if it's open source, we can just fix bugs we find in the "hard stuff" and focus more on what we're actually doing.
Hell, things like basic sockets and other things that are fairly easy, really--every once in a while I forget to back that up or something stupid and instead of just doing it all from memory and by hand, I just copy and paste it off the internet, then rework it to my liking (by this time, I know the commands, but copy and paste is just faster). Of course, some times I like to do things that have already been done, only try to do it in a new way, just as an exercise (I'm down to programming as a hobby at this point).
I wouldn't be too harsh on copy and pasting, though. It can be a great learning exercise if you peel it apart and actually understand exactly what is going on and the different ways you can alter it. It's also a great way to get to know an open source library and be able to fix any bugs you find, or even add features to it, if that's your fancy. That's generally how I've done anything in that regard, to be honest.
I would hope their "time warping" has something that separates it from doing it with VHS, specifically in the patent. Otherwise, I don't get how the USPTO didn't think about the VHS days when they let the patent by...
someone else is probably better than me at finding the patent in question... and I'm just too damn tired at this point to care.
+ blurry-net?
Haha! Finally, someone has the exact same experience as me (up to a point, at least). My Gentoo box died, and when I got a new one up and going (newegg!), I just decided to try Kubuntu. In part, because I started seeing the weaknesses of portage too regularly, and in part, because I just didn't care to spend the time any more. All the basic stuff... I still know that from Gentoo (and it's easy to me). After that, it gets difficult to find it on Ubuntu's forums some times. Even Google gives me a lot of outdated ideas that just don't quite work right. Then I finally installed another partition of Gentoo. I'm not quite utilizing that yet, because I haven't devoted the time. But it's making me appreciate Gentoo like I used to again...
Goddamn, I'm 22 and don't know shit about history (relative to other topics), but I thought about this as I read the OP. In its own dark way, it's kinda funny...
"but is actually not bad at connectings"? O.o
But Google's promising 1Gbps, which they want to aim at the more rural areas. But if the rural areas are getting that, there's gonna be a bigger push for that in the urban areas. Maybe the market will demand around 100mbps by 2020, as competition does get higher. And Google could be a pretty scary competitor for some of those bigger ISPs...
It's not really switching sides, even if they do use it. This is more the people who give Google certain content not allowing it in one place or another. Or laws being more complicated or whatever b.s. is involved in the political realm of it. But this seems to be more about following copyright law more thoroughly as opposed to following any censorship laws.
Did blogsouthwest just get slashdotted?
... George, Washington has a rode called Bing Ave. Though street view does drive by it. I wonder what stopped them from just doing a couple circles and catching it all...
From TFA:
The designers are working with doctors on potential medical applications. The system could enable less-invasive ways to monitor pressure changes in the eyes, brain, and in tumors in patients with glaucoma, head trauma, or cancer. In the body, the sensor could conceivably harvest energy from movement or heat, rather than light, the engineers say.
What if I get myself a nice, bright lamp to power it?!
Seems related to the Paul being the anti-christ theory that some are fond of. Definitely an interesting line of thought you can continuing adding on other points to (there's plenty out there, going several directions).
The stupid people are taking over, and they don't understand this "strong, objective, fact-based" mumbo-jumbo you speak of. They barely understand what you mean by journalism any more.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's somewhere in their contract that they can do this. When I read chunks of it a couple of years ago, there were a few unpleasant things in there. It used to have a clause saying you can't stream video or audio at all (specifically speaking of the contract with my phone at the time). Now, they don't stop me from using Pandora on my Droid, but I assume they changed that by now. Anyway, given that, I wouldn't be too surprised if it is spelled out in the fine print that a lot of people don't bother reading somewhere, at least that they reserve the right to block sites on their discretion. I don't actually know and don't care to sift through the damn contract right now, but there's just been a lot in their contracts over the years that a lot of people don't know anything about...
and yes I'm reading into that... which I shouldn't, I know. I guess that's what happens when I wake up and go on slashdot right away....
Someone posted a link to his actual blog post below: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/02/happy-camper.html
taken from it:
I got the original G1 phone from google when it came out, and I hardly ever used it. Why? I generally hate phones - they are irritating and disturb you as you work or read or whatever - and a cellphone to me is just an opportunity to be irritated wherever you are. Which is not a good thing.
At the same time I love the concept of having a phone that runs Linux, and I've had a number of them over the years (in addition to the G1, I had one of the early China-only Motorola Linux phones) etc. But my hatred of phones ends up resulting in me not really ever using them. The G1, for example, ended up being mostly used for playing Galaga and Solitaire on long flights, since I had almost no reason to carry it with me except when traveling.
Well. There IS a book called "Why do men have nipples?" that in a quite limited sample of the general population (being the people I know) is a rather popular book. One that I keep coming across someone deciding to read at least once a year or more. It's bizarre, and it's filled with such random questions. However, it gives a damn good reason why that one would come up on top of others...
Only thing about that: these days, everyone conforms in order to not conform. If you don't conform to the "non-conformists" then you're not "conforming". Hence you get different groups all trying to go to some extreme of something, all of which is the same to the whole group. Case in point: a certain group when I was in high school always talked about how evil conforming was, but you looked at them and they all looked the same, with their torn jeans and long, unkempt hair. Those of us that realize look on in bafflement. If you're like me, you just say, "fuck that," and really pull off non-conformity. But the true meaning of that seems to be lost to a lot of people. Really, you need to understand this quote: You're unique, just like everyone else.
Killed? There's no need to kill 'em. Besides, watching them recover cognitively and emotionally after a thorough beating is almost more fun than the beating itself (depending on the bully)!
You know, this is my thought. When I was going to high school in Wisconsin, I was riding my bike through the snow as much as 2.5 miles to school and back home every day. Even there, people thought I was rather crazy, but it wasn't bad, really. Once I learned how to handle the ice and other such sketchy situations introduced by the weather, it wasn't bad. Hell, being comfortable in a t-shirt by the end of it during below freezing temperatures was worth it, in its own just fun way.
Sure, weather might stop some, but the extreme weather just makes it that much better for others!