I grant what your saying, but there is a strong case to be made that the world we percieve is strongly subjective. This is not to say that an objective reality of some sort does not exist. It's just that what we see is strongly filtered and interpreted through our minds less than ideal filters.
Contemplate the scientist and the nut-loon creationist. They both live in the same world, but the creationist percieves his world as flat and only 6000 years old.
The fact that evolution has equiped us humans with speech is an indicator that our percieved-realitys are not quite in synch with each other, and thus we need to communicate to synch it up (Among the other roles of language).
One does not have to be a nihilist to accept that scientific reality is hard to achieve.
Great point about the absolute truth being true in subjective reality tho.
The wild tangent plugin is sending off your
GPS co-ordinates (Infered by triangulating your
Windows CD-KEY code with your serial number on your Pentium and your shoe size), so as to correctly aim the new Masonic Mind control Satelite network.
This is the first time I have *EVER* seen a rational, non-foamy, or non 'lets bash the jesus guy', AND non 'lets convert them pesky athiest' discussions on theology/origin topic.
The federal govement has introduced new legislation demanding ISP's block packets destined for every port TCP/IP allows. This is to stop the scurge of Gnutella threatening Sony's product.
To quell the anger generated by ISP's on this decision, the federal government has anounced it will give a FREE SET OF STEAK KNIVES to every citizen subscribing to the NEW MSN
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Theres a stream of thought in the Humanities called 'semiotics', in short, it's the study of symbolic representation in cultures. Part of this suggests that there are two major components to a 'sign'. A signifier and a signified. Now in the case of a swatstika, generally this sort of works out to be that the signifier is the swatstika, and the signified is naziism. (What is the sign and what it represents. It's kinda like pointers in C!.
One rather successfull tactic in combating the power of these oppressive symbols (And amongst alot of sociologists and psychologists there is agreement that symbols can really disturb people), is to reconfigure them.
Take the word 'bitch'. Traditionally it's kinda signified 'stupid bad woman'. But a lot of women have been using it to mean 'powerfull woman'. Ie my sisters proclaimation that she is 100% bitch and proud. The same thing applies to the word 'n*gger'. Many afro-americans have been using it in a non derogatory way. It's reclaiming the signifier, and saying 'screw you-- this word is mine now'. It's also a type of pointer math.
The problem is however, that while a swatstika did indeed mean 'peace' to budhists many moons ago, it now means 'naziism' to most people.Trying to dislodge the signified and reconfiguring this has a grave danger of leaving no pointers to the fact of nazi horror, and before long histories little 'java garbage collector' is gonna come along and we'll forget one of the most important lessons of the last 100 years.. That is, that extreme (maybe all) right wing politics can lead to absolute horror.
I'm getting the impression that implementing forth is a common past time for the adventurous programmer. I did a similar thing for a little z80 project about five years ago as the only 4th compilers I could find had way too much CP/M junk hanging off it. Took about 3 or 4 days for a compiler, written in turbo pascal and compiling to Assembler. Again, only a subset, but verry simple. What a *great* language it is that allows such things to happen. I often wonder just how C became so big... But I guess no one was really trying to implement unix on toasters.
Nutty! Forth rocked something hard, partly because it really was FIERCELY obsfucated, but with a little work actually could be made quite readable. Despite the fact the little bugger didn't have *real* variables in the same sense we know them now, yet building whacky big data structures was a breeze. I even managed to get the little bugger to be quasi-OOP with about 6 lines of code. A damn fine language.
Ok, I kinda like... and don't like... this. First, If you are going to get rid of dos, do it properly... No whacko underlying 16bit dos mode bits etc.. A previous poster has mentioned that there is still a bit of dos under there... Why bother? Sounds like a cynical attempt to force the upgrade cycle to me...
However, most moves away from Dos are kinda good in terms of stability. Wierdly though, dos has it's place... There is nothing like dos for *real time* processing, even linux folks! Single task , poll a couple of interupts and program.... The ports are dead easy to get at, and for a radical quick RS-232 hack for equipment control... QBASIC is the engineers friend:) Old school and effective.
The light at the end of the tunnel though is Free Dos's. There are a good many GPL'd dos's out there , some better than another. If microsoft won't let you do raw stuff, give em the bird. Open source saves the day. Same applies for 2000 and NT. Watch those Fat32's and NTFS's.... You could always use LILO though.
I have actually been wondering lately, considering the lack of truly awe-inspiring WP's on Linux , how hard it'd be to steal Mozilla's renderer and just whack a keyboard interface and a few load/save filters... Shazam! instant half-decent word processor.
Seriously , anyone , myself included , who has tried to put together a word processor will tell you that the bastard lies in the document renderer. It's an absolute prick. The two big users of these document renderers are... web browsers and word processors. Surely I am not the only one to see this. Remember Composer? As severely half-assed as it was, the thing was my wordprocessor of choice for ages.
Whack in a word filter (bar evil probs with loopy ActiveX streams etc) and your laughing.
Then theres always the guys in the brown hats who end up getting in trouble with MAPS ecause he didn't get a guy in a white hat to secure his mail server from some assh0le advertiser in a Dumb hat who bought some unholy bit of spam software from an even bigger assh0le in a black hat
If we indeed do contact the little saucer-dudes, we can tell them to Stop ARSE-COREING our beloved cows. God only knows the somalians need them cows more then bug-eyed little saucer pilots.
I'd suggest that this has verry little to do with the reality of Labor in Australia. Since P.K was prime-minister globalisation has been the key word. A bit like the Brits, Aust labor is a strange thing indeed, Union history, with small l liberal bent (as opposed to the Incummbent 'Liberal' party with it's nutty conservative cum big business bent). Both as wierd as each other.
Depends on what you mean by an INBOX. However, by this I assume it means that it fries stuff when MAPI gets it's hands on it,and before handing it over to Outlook. That means it'll fry 3rd party exchange clients etc too. badbadbad
Sorry Pfhreakaz0iod, I mucked up. I *meant* to give it an 'Insightfull' but slipped on the KB and hit funny. It was a fine comment good sir:) Unfortunately it appears the moderate thing doesn't have a preview... Verry embarassing. Blew that one. Maybe I kill the 'willing' option, better still, just don't use it at 2am. Much appologies.
The main reasoning behind this , I assume, is due to local politics regarding one or two multi-billionare type moguls (packer? murdoch?) not being given a free-to-air tv licence due to verry sensible cross-media licencing laws. The idea I assume is that with the convergence with the net, the bastards will get around this IP wise
Now the problem for me is that we sell video streaming stuff, but low end (AXIS 2400's etc) streaming JPEG stuff , for small end corporate use (IP security cams etc).
Now my first thought would be to licence it as say free for under 10,000 viewers and at a rate above that, but on further thought, the bastards would just take it offshore, leaving the little guy paying the bill.
Radio frequencies are indeed getting crowded, but don't kill video conferencing IP style just yet. That'd just be dumb.
Of course that's where we come in. My normal routine with developing a Delphi app is to first go and check out torry components page and find me any o/s components that will do what I want. Run a grep to see if it contains any GNU (Important to check for licencing issues) code, black box check it (Ie is it releasing memory properly? Is it thread safe etc) and plop it in.
Most of that should be available to be ported to Kylix as source code. The syntax is the same. The API is not. None the less once the code is in place, polymorphism suggests direct X-compile of the container project.
ActiveX stuff won't be so easy, but who the feck uses that shite in Delphi anyway?
Ok.. I take the comment about delphi/kylix not being opensource, and particularly the VCL. A couple of things worth noting however. In my experience as a professional delphi developer, the delphi comunity is verry open source in terms of libraries / components. Check out the Torry components site and check out the large amount of components available there, ignore the stupid comercial/shareware ones, there are tons and tons of open source freeware ones. I ain't seen nothing like that at all for vis basic.
Also, the robust object model basically means that if a VCL object is not up to the task, create a new task, inheret and modify. No probs. There are I believe projects out there to create open source VCL replacements, so even that aint a prob.
With the gnarled exception of the compiler being closed source (Free pascal is a worthy replacement tho) I think it's majik for the linux community. Wan't a RTF word processor? Drop in a rich text component. make some save/load/print buttons. run. work. joy. The linux revolution is afoot!
This is because of political conduction. Those parts of the world are run by democrats.... err um.... communist that don't care about there people or the conduction that they live.
Partly but not completely. I agree many of the poorer nations are living under nutbag dictatorships and the like, but much of it also has to do with the richer countries such as America who btw *are* run by democrats. Alot of the poorer countries are structurally crippled by international debt and the fact that large foreign nationals are essentially taking all the resources without putting in adequate compense for the locals. When they do however the local goon dictator might be however taking a cut for his bloated armys.
FYI most homeless are nothing more than professional bums and over 90% of the rain forest is pristine and intact!!
I reeeealy hope you are not a voter. Most homeless ppl being professional bums indeed. The reality is that in many countries, particularly America with its shockingly underfunded welfare system, homelessless is a reality caused by no money and no real prospects of getting any short of theft prostitution or drugs. Bumming is the hororable path here. 90% of rainforrests might be intact (You made that figure up btw) but there is probably 90% less of it then there used to be (I made that figure up btw). And yeah. Save them penguins. Cute little guys.
I have noticed more than a few people complaining that penguins in danger isn't a suitable Slashdot topic. I would beg to differ;
Slashdot has always been Geek news, and it's always seemed to me fairly activist.
I would like to suggest we keep in mind the original promise of the computer...paperless. Indeed Enviromentalism is an *excelent* geek thing to engage in. Biology rocks in a completely egg-based geek way, and it's really really interesting. Us boffins are the future, and if we don't use our,often, priveleged positions to fight for stuff that really matters than were all doomed
Case in point in Australia is SIMCOA's use of Old Growth Jarrah woodchips in the silicone smeltering process. Jarrah is one of the largest trees in the world, and it also produces fan-bloody-tastic furniture. It's endangered too. Currently SOTICO, the logging company is selling this priceless wood as woodchips at $14 a tonne. There are many enviro-friendly alternatives for it. As end users we should be complaining bitterly that our comps are trashing forrests unneccesarrily. Put preasure if you want to on intel/amd/motorolla etc to use enviro friendly processing methods.
Either way. It's verry geek. Let's do something for those penguins. It's important. Tux'd agree too methinx.
As a non carnivore myself, I can understand PETA's concern however the precedent is something that does worry me. For an example of how the Green Left can *also* suffer from this please see www.sotico.com Sotico is an Australian company that has caused terrible damage to the Jarrah and Karri forrests of western Australia. (For your reference Karri is the third largest tree in the world , it is highly endangered and is being logged like crazy. Check out this site for an example of how the 'name hijack' can be used for noble goals. www.sotico.com
The thing that strikes with me in all this, is his base assumptions of 'universal components of ethics'. Specifically, he states that such ethics exist, and then enumerates them.
Paraphrasing;-
Don't kill other PPL who are innocent. (Ergo right to life?).. This may be desirable , but TO SOME SITUATIONS, the people IN that situation may find it more ethical to KILL the innocent person, say in war for instance.
The right to reputation , specifically not being misrepresented...... Not universal again, Derision , often to the extreme of outright BullShite is a verry common form of social discipline.
Property.... It's ethical if you own the property, but if you got no food. It's not ethical at all.
The point I am making here is that there is no such thing as universal ethics, principally because (A) You can usually find counter examples, and (B) You can't name their source. *WHERE* do ethics/morals come from? Do they melt if you burn them? Can you buy it? Will it kill you?
There are no ethics in free software, just a bunch of Ideas
One difference is that Radio stations pay performance royalties to Whatever the Royalty collector organisation is in your area (Here in Australia it's ARIA (I think)).
However one thing I want to know; What the fuck has the music industry ever done for musicians? Many bands from small to medium are thrown into massive debts to these industry (Record company) assholes, and frankly unless your Miss Britney or something. Forget about living off your HARD WORK.
For these reasons and *MANY* more, I ain't a muso any more. I've seen to many friends become well known, sell a lot of albums and become massively in debt to record company vultures
Specifically;- Balls to the music industry. Buy local music and rip the internationals.
Mp3 is a muso's best friend. Viva! (Ps I've yet to meet a muso that don't agree with me on this one)
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Contemplate the scientist and the nut-loon creationist. They both live in the same world, but the creationist percieves his world as flat and only 6000 years old.
The fact that evolution has equiped us humans with speech is an indicator that our percieved-realitys are not quite in synch with each other, and thus we need to communicate to synch it up (Among the other roles of language).
One does not have to be a nihilist to accept that scientific reality is hard to achieve.
Great point about the absolute truth being true in subjective reality tho.
The wild tangent plugin is sending off your GPS co-ordinates (Infered by triangulating your Windows CD-KEY code with your serial number on your Pentium and your shoe size), so as to correctly aim the new Masonic Mind control Satelite network.
This is the first time I have *EVER* seen a rational, non-foamy, or non 'lets bash the jesus guy', AND non 'lets convert them pesky athiest' discussions on theology/origin topic.
Refreshing
(I'm still an athiest tho)
The federal govement has introduced new legislation demanding ISP's block packets destined for every port TCP/IP allows. This is to stop the scurge of Gnutella threatening Sony's product.
To quell the anger generated by ISP's on this decision, the federal government has anounced it will give a FREE SET OF STEAK KNIVES to every citizen subscribing to the NEW MSN
Whatever turns you on I guess.
Or rather my Finish karate demon GF can completly slay the fuck out of your wealthy society demon GF kind of linux-microsoft rivalry
gotta stop using loopy Opera.
One rather successfull tactic in combating the power of these oppressive symbols (And amongst alot of sociologists and psychologists there is agreement that symbols can really disturb people), is to reconfigure them.
Take the word 'bitch'. Traditionally it's kinda signified 'stupid bad woman'. But a lot of women have been using it to mean 'powerfull woman'. Ie my sisters proclaimation that she is 100% bitch and proud. The same thing applies to the word 'n*gger'. Many afro-americans have been using it in a non derogatory way. It's reclaiming the signifier, and saying 'screw you-- this word is mine now'. It's also a type of pointer math.
The problem is however, that while a swatstika did indeed mean 'peace' to budhists many moons ago, it now means 'naziism' to most people.Trying to dislodge the signified and reconfiguring this has a grave danger of leaving no pointers to the fact of nazi horror, and before long histories little 'java garbage collector' is gonna come along and we'll forget one of the most important lessons of the last 100 years.. That is, that extreme (maybe all) right wing politics can lead to absolute horror.
I'm getting the impression that implementing forth is a common past time for the adventurous programmer. I did a similar thing for a little z80 project about five years ago as the only 4th compilers I could find had way too much CP/M junk hanging off it. Took about 3 or 4 days for a compiler, written in turbo pascal and compiling to Assembler. Again, only a subset, but verry simple. What a *great* language it is that allows such things to happen. I often wonder just how C became so big... But I guess no one was really trying to implement unix on toasters.
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Nutty! Forth rocked something hard, partly because it really was FIERCELY obsfucated, but with a little work actually could be made quite readable. Despite the fact the little bugger didn't have *real* variables in the same sense we know them now, yet building whacky big data structures was a breeze. I even managed to get the little bugger to be quasi-OOP with about 6 lines of code. A damn fine language.
However, most moves away from Dos are kinda good in terms of stability. Wierdly though, dos has it's place... There is nothing like dos for *real time* processing, even linux folks! Single task , poll a couple of interupts and program.... The ports are dead easy to get at, and for a radical quick RS-232 hack for equipment control... QBASIC is the engineers friend :) Old school and effective.
The light at the end of the tunnel though is Free Dos's. There are a good many GPL'd dos's out there , some better than another. If microsoft won't let you do raw stuff, give em the bird. Open source saves the day. Same applies for 2000 and NT. Watch those Fat32's and NTFS's.... You could always use LILO though.
Seriously , anyone , myself included , who has tried to put together a word processor will tell you that the bastard lies in the document renderer. It's an absolute prick. The two big users of these document renderers are ... web browsers and word processors. Surely I am not the only one to see this. Remember Composer? As severely half-assed as it was, the thing was my wordprocessor of choice for ages.
Whack in a word filter (bar evil probs with loopy ActiveX streams etc) and your laughing.
Then theres always the guys in the brown hats who end up getting in trouble with MAPS ecause he didn't get a guy in a white hat to secure his mail server from some assh0le advertiser in a Dumb hat who bought some unholy bit of spam software from an even bigger assh0le in a black hat
Dead serious too.
I'd suggest that this has verry little to do with the reality of Labor in Australia. Since P.K was prime-minister globalisation has been the key word. A bit like the Brits, Aust labor is a strange thing indeed, Union history, with small l liberal bent (as opposed to the Incummbent 'Liberal' party with it's nutty conservative cum big business bent). Both as wierd as each other.
Depends on what you mean by an INBOX. However, by this I assume it means that it fries stuff when MAPI gets it's hands on it ,and before handing it over to Outlook. That means it'll fry 3rd party exchange clients etc too. badbadbad
Sorry Pfhreakaz0iod, I mucked up. I *meant* to give it an 'Insightfull' but slipped on the KB and hit funny. It was a fine comment good sir :) Unfortunately it appears the moderate thing doesn't have a preview... Verry embarassing. Blew that one. Maybe I kill the 'willing' option, better still, just don't use it at 2am. Much appologies.
Now the problem for me is that we sell video streaming stuff, but low end (AXIS 2400's etc) streaming JPEG stuff , for small end corporate use (IP security cams etc).
Now my first thought would be to licence it as say free for under 10,000 viewers and at a rate above that, but on further thought, the bastards would just take it offshore, leaving the little guy paying the bill.
Radio frequencies are indeed getting crowded, but don't kill video conferencing IP style just yet. That'd just be dumb.
Stupid govt. I'm voting Labor next time.
Most of that should be available to be ported to Kylix as source code. The syntax is the same. The API is not. None the less once the code is in place, polymorphism suggests direct X-compile of the container project.
ActiveX stuff won't be so easy, but who the feck uses that shite in Delphi anyway?
Also, the robust object model basically means that if a VCL object is not up to the task, create a new task, inheret and modify. No probs. There are I believe projects out there to create open source VCL replacements, so even that aint a prob.
With the gnarled exception of the compiler being closed source (Free pascal is a worthy replacement tho) I think it's majik for the linux community. Wan't a RTF word processor? Drop in a rich text component. make some save/load/print buttons. run. work. joy. The linux revolution is afoot!
Partly but not completely. I agree many of the poorer nations are living under nutbag dictatorships and the like, but much of it also has to do with the richer countries such as America who btw *are* run by democrats. Alot of the poorer countries are structurally crippled by international debt and the fact that large foreign nationals are essentially taking all the resources without putting in adequate compense for the locals. When they do however the local goon dictator might be however taking a cut for his bloated armys.
I reeeealy hope you are not a voter. Most homeless ppl being professional bums indeed. The reality is that in many countries, particularly America with its shockingly underfunded welfare system, homelessless is a reality caused by no money and no real prospects of getting any short of theft prostitution or drugs. Bumming is the hororable path here. 90% of rainforrests might be intact (You made that figure up btw) but there is probably 90% less of it then there used to be (I made that figure up btw). And yeah. Save them penguins. Cute little guys.Slashdot has always been Geek news, and it's always seemed to me fairly activist.
I would like to suggest we keep in mind the original promise of the computer...paperless. Indeed Enviromentalism is an *excelent* geek thing to engage in. Biology rocks in a completely egg-based geek way, and it's really really interesting. Us boffins are the future, and if we don't use our ,often, priveleged positions to fight for stuff that really matters than were all doomed
Case in point in Australia is SIMCOA's use of Old Growth Jarrah woodchips in the silicone smeltering process. Jarrah is one of the largest trees in the world, and it also produces fan-bloody-tastic furniture. It's endangered too. Currently SOTICO, the logging company is selling this priceless wood as woodchips at $14 a tonne. There are many enviro-friendly alternatives for it. As end users we should be complaining bitterly that our comps are trashing forrests unneccesarrily. Put preasure if you want to on intel/amd/motorolla etc to use enviro friendly processing methods.
Either way. It's verry geek. Let's do something for those penguins. It's important. Tux'd agree too methinx.
As a non carnivore myself, I can understand PETA's concern however the precedent is something that does worry me. For an example of how the Green Left can *also* suffer from this please see www.sotico.com Sotico is an Australian company that has caused terrible damage to the Jarrah and Karri forrests of western Australia. (For your reference Karri is the third largest tree in the world , it is highly endangered and is being logged like crazy. Check out this site for an example of how the 'name hijack' can be used for noble goals. www.sotico.com
Paraphrasing;-
Don't kill other PPL who are innocent. (Ergo right to life?).. This may be desirable , but TO SOME SITUATIONS, the people IN that situation may find it more ethical to KILL the innocent person, say in war for instance.
The right to reputation , specifically not being misrepresented...... Not universal again, Derision , often to the extreme of outright BullShite is a verry common form of social discipline.
Property.... It's ethical if you own the property, but if you got no food. It's not ethical at all.
The point I am making here is that there is no such thing as universal ethics, principally because (A) You can usually find counter examples, and (B) You can't name their source. *WHERE* do ethics/morals come from? Do they melt if you burn them? Can you buy it? Will it kill you?
There are no ethics in free software, just a bunch of Ideas
However one thing I want to know; What the fuck has the music industry ever done for musicians? Many bands from small to medium are thrown into massive debts to these industry (Record company) assholes, and frankly unless your Miss Britney or something. Forget about living off your HARD WORK.
For these reasons and *MANY* more, I ain't a muso any more. I've seen to many friends become well known, sell a lot of albums and become massively in debt to record company vultures
Specifically;- Balls to the music industry. Buy local music and rip the internationals.
Mp3 is a muso's best friend. Viva! (Ps I've yet to meet a muso that don't agree with me on this one)