From Golanf.org : "With Go we take an unusual approach and let the machine take care of most formatting issues. A program, gofmt, reads a Go program and emits the source in a standard style of indentation and vertical alignment, retaining and if necessary reformatting comments. [...] We use tabs for indentation and gofmt emits them by default. Use spaces only if you must."
People who molest children, or partake in child porn, are the scum of the earth. I can't believe what I'm reading here. There are intelligent people who believe it shouldn't be a crime, or a big deal, to possess child porn, or molest children and record it?
The problem is you are putting at least 4 groups of people in the same category "pedophile" : 1) people who are aroused by pictures of (naked) children 2) people who molest children 3) people who record 2 4) people who distribute 3
Group 1 should probably not be criminalized because they are just people with psychological issues and there are no direct victims. Group 2 are criminals and might have psychological issues which may be cause for some leniency in a very few cases. The other 2 groups are the ones every sane person wants to string up by the balls from the highest tree. All these people can make our stomachs turn, but some deserve pity rather than jail.
The hysteria around child porn makes the ideal way to frame someone. Need to get rid of an enemy, a politician you don't like maybe ? Just break into their computer and load a single image on there. No one will look too closely, everyone will be scrambling to condemn you first to avoid looking guilt by association. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
The rationale is that Apple products are strongly associated with the brand and everything that goes wrong will reflect badly on Apple even if the apps are not associated with Apple in any way. Opening up the iPhone to other stores in that line of thinking would increase the risk of damaging the brand by vastly increasing the opportunity for malicious and inappropriate apps. Just read this thread and see how many people are ready to blame Apple because some software publishers are shady assholes.
Personally of course I don't agree with this corporate type logic which is why I jailbreak and unlock my iPhone.
Also those being hacked could be using old firmware versions. Back in the old (1.1.3.) days the passwd command installed with the jailbreak was broken and users were advised not to use it.
You could do a lot worse : "A few of the notable authors who have had works published in Playboy include John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Alex Haley, Stephen King and many more". A lot of SF greats have also published in Playboy : "In 1966, the magazine showed off a bit with The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, a selection of tales first published in its pages, including George Langelaan's "The Fly" (source of the movie), Charles Beaumont's "The Crooked Man," Arthur C. Clarke's "I Remember Babylon," and well-written stories by the likes of Sturgeon, Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, and William Tenn."
We have a very long tradition of teaching kids to read by reading comic books here in Belgium. Generation have grown up with kid friendly comics like Jommeke and Suske en Wiske eventually graduating to more complex ones like the ever popular Tin Tin. One common trope is to have a character with a confused manner of talking who is always being corrected which effectively shows kids how they should talk. They are also routinely used to teach foreign languages. I myself learned french using Suske En Wiske (Bob et Bobette) comic strips and translated Asterix books are sometimes given as introductory literature for latin classes.
Monty Python did live shows. They even toured Germany and did their own sketches in german.
The point is the distributors role is *over*. Why not make the first few free funded by venture capital and then let people subscribe to the show (low price) instead of a channel earning back the money and hopefully turning a profit. Perhaps also make low quality verisons with ads spliced in available for non-subscribers to get them hooked.
We don't go to movies, we rent them when they come to DVD. We don't watch broadcast TV at all.
Hey kids! Why watch the movies you want on a 50-foot tall screen today, when you can see them on a 30-inch tall screen in several months? Also, there is a serial arsonist in your neighborhood. You will find out about when that info is released on DVD!
There's no real ethical imperative to pay for it either though. There's a cultural belief in one is many cases - but these things change all the time (e.g. sex before marriage and divorce being massively more acceptable now than years past).
When it comes right down to it, intellectual property rights (property rights in general actually) don't even come close to having as strong as ethical ground as something like murder.
Yes, if you look at the history of human culture the idea that stories or ideas can belong to one individual or group is a relatively recent one (about 200 years). In fact we only have access to our cultures and our stories because they were copied and retold over the ages. So when we have now a generation that has no ethical objections to copying and redistributing material (especially that of faceless corporations and not that of independent artists) it may just be a return to the mean.
The timing for it is couldn't be better. Where artists used to have (pre-entertainment industry) one wealthy maecenas, they can now have a multitude of patrons fund their work through (micro) payments on the net (crowdfunding).
and 10.6 is moving towards a full 64bit Architecture. This means the Atom Can't run it because it's a 32bit only CPU. In other words, this is a non-story
Voodoo Kernel to the rescue ? This won't stop hackintoshes since the core OS is open source, it'll just make it harder for some to keep your install "vanilla" as they call it. I've run the voodoo kernel myself on a netbookand it's perfectly stable.
Yeah, that's the point of re-distributionist tax policy. Do the Californians complaining about it also support a repeal of the 16th Amendment?
I'm not opposed to it as such but I do think it is ironic that the red states are on the receiving end of wealth redistribution. Someone should tell the "tea-baggers" about this evil socialist practice.
Incorrect. Fascism is simply a "third way" that is neither private ownership (capitalism) nor government ownership (communism), but instead private ownership with government CEOs pulling the strings. It's intended to prevent the abuses. It's also sometimes called corporatism.
That's the economic part of it. The political dimension is strong authoritarian and nationalist leadership and the strong being allowed to assert their superiority over the weak (social darwinism.) It's this latter part I was referring to, the idea some people are weak willed and should be lead not included.
I agree completely people shouldn't vote blindly but should know the issues. That's why personally I'm for mandatory voting. It's the only system that provides an incentive for all parties to make sure the populace is as informed as possible.
I've recently read on another forum that California is also hampered by a large negative balance of payment between it and the federal government
"Last year, Californians sent nearly $20 billion more to Washington in federal taxes than the state received back in federal spending. The state’s 1998 deficit of $19.4 billion marked the largest such imbalance for any single state in the history of the nation, eclipsing the previous record of $14.3 billion, set also by California in 1997"
So it seems California is bankrolling the federal level even while going bankrupt itself.
Jobs is not a geek per se but he talks our language, that's how he got involved with Woz.
And by "got involved" you mean befriended, used and stabbed in the back?
I didn't get that impression when I read iWoz (Woz' autobiography.) He says Jobs was his best friend and was hurt when he later found out Jobs (allegedly) didn't fairly split their first earnings but there didn't seem to be bad blood between them. In fact it sounded rather Peter Pan-esque, as if Woz was an idealistic big kid and he stayed true to his hippy ideals while Jobs went off into the grown up world and they grew apart. On his website he does say he cried tears of joy when Jobs returned to Apple : "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was spotted walking over to the exhibit hall after the speech. "I cried," said Wozniak, in reaction to Jobs' decision. "It felt just like the old days, with Steve making announcements that shook my world." [...] Woz: Well, I did actually cry at two places. The imovie with the kids was so good, and then when Steve announced his CEO plans it felt like yesterday's dreams had returned. " So they're not exactly sworn enemies.
Uncanny insight? Lisa? NeXT? Let's not try to rewrite history here...
The Lisa was the competitor (internally at Apple) to Jobs' baby, the Macintosh. I think we all know which one won that battle.
Wikipedia has the following to say on NeXT's impact : "Despite NeXT's limited commercial success, the company had a profound impact on the computer industry. Object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces became more common after the 1988 release of the NeXTcube and NeXTSTEP, when other companies started to emulate NeXT's object-oriented system."
There's a reason why the first browser was written on a NeXT cube you know. Berners-Lee says : "I wrote the program using a NeXT computer. This had the advantage that there were some great tools available -it was a great computing environment in general. In fact, I could do in a couple of months what would take more like a year on other platforms, because on the NeXT, a lot of it was done for me already. There was an application builder to make all the menus as quickly as you could dream them up. there were all the software parts to make a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get - in other words direct manipulation of text on screen as on the printed - or browsed page) word processor. I just had to add hypertext, (by subclassing the Text object)"
The current CEO of Palm is the inventor of the ipod, not Steve Jobs. While at Apple Steve Jobs sent him out to find a hot product to make and he found the 1.8" hard drive at Toshiba that was considered a waste of resources and about to be killed. He made the ipod around it. iTunes came from a company Apple bought and they just renamed the software.
I'm confused. Are they lucky because they hired good people or because they made smart acquisitions ? They completely redid the GUI for iTunes by the way, Soundjam looked entirely different and they develop it in a a novel way by making it into an interface for their store.
iTunes took off because Microsoft couldn't get their DRM strategy right and iTunes worked out a good deal with the record companies. the Ipod was one brand from a company everyone knew.
True, but again that they were able to get right what MS couldn't just proves they were smart not lucky.
the iphone was a sales disaster until they cut the price and added the subsidies from AT&T. even then it was a slow niche seller until the 3G came out with the AppStore and Exchange support.
This one is just blatantly false. The iPhone hit all Apple's announced targets, 1 million sold in the first 80 days, 10 million sold by 2008 ("Apple hits 10 million iPhone target two months early".)
This says a lot more about Steve Balmer's competence than Bill Gate's geekness. A far as I know Steve Jobs is no geek, but apparently Apple's relevance is affected by him being there.
Jobs is not a geek per se but he talks our language, that's how he got involved with Woz. That and he has an uncanny insight into technology and how it can be used and popularized even when he lacks the technical skill to develop it himself. He's not a salesman (bullshit artist) like Balmer, but someone who can genuinely see how cool a technology is and then transfer that enthusiasm to other people.
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From Golanf.org : "With Go we take an unusual approach and let the machine take care of most formatting issues. A program, gofmt, reads a Go program and emits the source in a standard style of indentation and vertical alignment, retaining and if necessary reformatting comments. [...] We use tabs for indentation and gofmt emits them by default. Use spaces only if you must."
Of course you realize ... this means war.
Actually being hungover and sleeping in does wonders for my libido. A nice side effect is that my girlfriend doesn't mind me going out drinking.
Also, exercising makes me fucking hungry.
People who molest children, or partake in child porn, are the scum of the earth. I can't believe what I'm reading here. There are intelligent people who believe it shouldn't be a crime, or a big deal, to possess child porn, or molest children and record it?
The problem is you are putting at least 4 groups of people in the same category "pedophile" :
1) people who are aroused by pictures of (naked) children
2) people who molest children
3) people who record 2
4) people who distribute 3
Group 1 should probably not be criminalized because they are just people with psychological issues and there are no direct victims. Group 2 are criminals and might have psychological issues which may be cause for some leniency in a very few cases. The other 2 groups are the ones every sane person wants to string up by the balls from the highest tree. All these people can make our stomachs turn, but some deserve pity rather than jail.
The hysteria around child porn makes the ideal way to frame someone. Need to get rid of an enemy, a politician you don't like maybe ? Just break into their computer and load a single image on there. No one will look too closely, everyone will be scrambling to condemn you first to avoid looking guilt by association. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
The rationale is that Apple products are strongly associated with the brand and everything that goes wrong will reflect badly on Apple even if the apps are not associated with Apple in any way. Opening up the iPhone to other stores in that line of thinking would increase the risk of damaging the brand by vastly increasing the opportunity for malicious and inappropriate apps. Just read this thread and see how many people are ready to blame Apple because some software publishers are shady assholes.
Personally of course I don't agree with this corporate type logic which is why I jailbreak and unlock my iPhone.
If you want infallible maybe they should get the pope to do app reviews.
Also those being hacked could be using old firmware versions. Back in the old (1.1.3.) days the passwd command installed with the jailbreak was broken and users were advised not to use it.
You could do a lot worse : "A few of the notable authors who have had works published in Playboy include John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Alex Haley, Stephen King and many more". A lot of SF greats have also published in Playboy : "In 1966, the magazine showed off a bit with The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, a selection of tales first published in its pages, including George Langelaan's "The Fly" (source of the movie), Charles Beaumont's "The Crooked Man," Arthur C. Clarke's "I Remember Babylon," and well-written stories by the likes of Sturgeon, Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, and William Tenn."
Obligatory Penny Arcade comic whenever someone brings up McCloud.
We have a very long tradition of teaching kids to read by reading comic books here in Belgium. Generation have grown up with kid friendly comics like Jommeke and Suske en Wiske eventually graduating to more complex ones like the ever popular Tin Tin. One common trope is to have a character with a confused manner of talking who is always being corrected which effectively shows kids how they should talk. They are also routinely used to teach foreign languages. I myself learned french using Suske En Wiske (Bob et Bobette) comic strips and translated Asterix books are sometimes given as introductory literature for latin classes.
Monty Python did live shows. They even toured Germany and did their own sketches in german.
The point is the distributors role is *over*. Why not make the first few free funded by venture capital and then let people subscribe to the show (low price) instead of a channel earning back the money and hopefully turning a profit. Perhaps also make low quality verisons with ads spliced in available for non-subscribers to get them hooked.
Hey kids! Why watch the movies you want on a 50-foot tall screen today, when you can see them on a 30-inch tall screen in several months? Also, there is a serial arsonist in your neighborhood. You will find out about when that info is released on DVD!
You get your news through the TV ? How quaint.
There's no real ethical imperative to pay for it either though. There's a cultural belief in one is many cases - but these things change all the time (e.g. sex before marriage and divorce being massively more acceptable now than years past).
When it comes right down to it, intellectual property rights (property rights in general actually) don't even come close to having as strong as ethical ground as something like murder.
Yes, if you look at the history of human culture the idea that stories or ideas can belong to one individual or group is a relatively recent one (about 200 years). In fact we only have access to our cultures and our stories because they were copied and retold over the ages. So when we have now a generation that has no ethical objections to copying and redistributing material (especially that of faceless corporations and not that of independent artists) it may just be a return to the mean.
The timing for it is couldn't be better. Where artists used to have (pre-entertainment industry) one wealthy maecenas, they can now have a multitude of patrons fund their work through (micro) payments on the net (crowdfunding).
Quitters !
and 10.6 is moving towards a full 64bit Architecture. This means the Atom Can't run it because it's a 32bit only CPU. In other words, this is a non-story
Voodoo Kernel to the rescue ? This won't stop hackintoshes since the core OS is open source, it'll just make it harder for some to keep your install "vanilla" as they call it. I've run the voodoo kernel myself on a netbookand it's perfectly stable.
What the fuck is a ktext?
It's a typo. They mean kext, a Mac OS X kernel extension.
Yeah, that's the point of re-distributionist tax policy. Do the Californians complaining about it also support a repeal of the 16th Amendment?
I'm not opposed to it as such but I do think it is ironic that the red states are on the receiving end of wealth redistribution. Someone should tell the "tea-baggers" about this evil socialist practice.
Incorrect. Fascism is simply a "third way" that is neither private ownership (capitalism) nor government ownership (communism), but instead private ownership with government CEOs pulling the strings. It's intended to prevent the abuses. It's also sometimes called corporatism.
That's the economic part of it. The political dimension is strong authoritarian and nationalist leadership and the strong being allowed to assert their superiority over the weak (social darwinism.) It's this latter part I was referring to, the idea some people are weak willed and should be lead not included.
I agree completely people shouldn't vote blindly but should know the issues. That's why personally I'm for mandatory voting. It's the only system that provides an incentive for all parties to make sure the populace is as informed as possible.
When your answer to the question of why things are bad is that the wrong people are voting you are already well on the way to fascism.
I've recently read on another forum that California is also hampered by a large negative balance of payment between it and the federal government
"Last year, Californians sent nearly $20 billion more to Washington in federal taxes than the state received back in federal spending. The state’s 1998 deficit of $19.4 billion marked the largest such imbalance for any single state in the history of the nation, eclipsing the previous record of $14.3 billion, set also by California in 1997"
So it seems California is bankrolling the federal level even while going bankrupt itself.
Jobs is not a geek per se but he talks our language, that's how he got involved with Woz.
And by "got involved" you mean befriended, used and stabbed in the back?
I didn't get that impression when I read iWoz (Woz' autobiography.) He says Jobs was his best friend and was hurt when he later found out Jobs (allegedly) didn't fairly split their first earnings but there didn't seem to be bad blood between them. In fact it sounded rather Peter Pan-esque, as if Woz was an idealistic big kid and he stayed true to his hippy ideals while Jobs went off into the grown up world and they grew apart. On his website he does say he cried tears of joy when Jobs returned to Apple : "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was spotted walking over to the exhibit hall after the speech. "I cried," said Wozniak, in reaction to Jobs' decision. "It felt just like the old days, with Steve making announcements that shook my world."
[...]
Woz: Well, I did actually cry at two places. The imovie with the kids was so good, and then when Steve announced his CEO plans it felt like yesterday's dreams had returned. "
So they're not exactly sworn enemies.
Uncanny insight? Lisa? NeXT? Let's not try to rewrite history here...
The Lisa was the competitor (internally at Apple) to Jobs' baby, the Macintosh. I think we all know which one won that battle.
Wikipedia has the following to say on NeXT's impact : "Despite NeXT's limited commercial success, the company had a profound impact on the computer industry. Object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces became more common after the 1988 release of the NeXTcube and NeXTSTEP, when other companies started to emulate NeXT's object-oriented system."
There's a reason why the first browser was written on a NeXT cube you know. Berners-Lee says : "I wrote the program using a NeXT computer. This had the advantage that there were some great tools available -it was a great computing environment in general. In fact, I could do in a couple of months what would take more like a year on other platforms, because on the NeXT, a lot of it was done for me already. There was an application builder to make all the menus as quickly as you could dream them up. there were all the software parts to make a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get - in other words direct manipulation of text on screen as on the printed - or browsed page) word processor. I just had to add hypertext, (by subclassing the Text object)"
The current CEO of Palm is the inventor of the ipod, not Steve Jobs. While at Apple Steve Jobs sent him out to find a hot product to make and he found the 1.8" hard drive at Toshiba that was considered a waste of resources and about to be killed. He made the ipod around it. iTunes came from a company Apple bought and they just renamed the software.
I'm confused. Are they lucky because they hired good people or because they made smart acquisitions ? They completely redid the GUI for iTunes by the way, Soundjam looked entirely different and they develop it in a a novel way by making it into an interface for their store.
iTunes took off because Microsoft couldn't get their DRM strategy right and iTunes worked out a good deal with the record companies. the Ipod was one brand from a company everyone knew.
True, but again that they were able to get right what MS couldn't just proves they were smart not lucky.
the iphone was a sales disaster until they cut the price and added the subsidies from AT&T. even then it was a slow niche seller until the 3G came out with the AppStore and Exchange support.
This one is just blatantly false. The iPhone hit all Apple's announced targets, 1 million sold in the first 80 days, 10 million sold by 2008 ("Apple hits 10 million iPhone target two months early".)
This says a lot more about Steve Balmer's competence than Bill Gate's geekness. A far as I know Steve Jobs is no geek, but apparently Apple's relevance is affected by him being there.
Jobs is not a geek per se but he talks our language, that's how he got involved with Woz. That and he has an uncanny insight into technology and how it can be used and popularized even when he lacks the technical skill to develop it himself. He's not a salesman (bullshit artist) like Balmer, but someone who can genuinely see how cool a technology is and then transfer that enthusiasm to other people.