Ah, but to arrive at such a conclusion you need to make a non-trivial logical deduction based on arcane prior knowledge involving abstract relationships and mathematical concepts such as suprema, a feat that not many can accomplish!
I like the music in frogatto. It's a GPL-engine, proprietary-data old-school-style indie platformer. The music is just as you describe, with some rough edges but the style is very refreshing compared to what we have been made used to in games.
The resolution might seem low to you, but in fact if you look at the number of pixels, it's not worse than other commonly used resolutions. For example, 1280x1024 is 1.31e6 pixels, while 1600x900, a 16:9 resolution, is 1.44e6 pixels, only a 10% improvement, where just by looking at 1600/1280 you'd expect it to be 25%. If the current trend continues, soon we will have 2048x1 resolutions with an amazing cinematic aspect ratio and the fewest possible pixels.
This is a pretty important point. Since web standards are moving towards distributing web pages as computer programs rather than static documents, there will be nothing to prevent them from doing weird stuff on your screen. I'm having doubts as to whether this is real progress.
I take it you've never printed any code in your life. Given a blank sheet of paper and a legible font size, you *are* given a character width limitation. Assuming a monospace font, 80 columns is pretty reasonable for that purpose. In longer lines it is also harder to figure out what's going on. If your lines are too long, maybe you should use more intermediate variables?
I do most of my writing in proportional fonts. I use two spaces after periods at the end of sentences. It just looks better, Except where the word processor (usually MS Word) stretches words too far apart (MS never heard of letter spacing?) in full justification, then I'll go back and change it to a single space.
Such tweaking will always cause problems in the long run, especially in longer documents. May I instead recommend using LyX, a text editor which uses LaTeX as the underlying typesetting engine (but in which knowledge of LaTeX is not required). It won't let you type two consecutive spaces, but in the output it will insert a longer space between sentences.
After all, shouldn't it be the job of the typesetting program to do the typesetting, and not the author of the text? I mean, you don't do hyphenation manually, why would you do the same with spacing? I only use double spaces in plain text files, and don't try to manually correct any of the more sophisticated editors.
Proprietary browsers are all supporting H264 already
There, fixed that for you. Free browsers will never be able to support H264 and this is one half of the problem. The other half is that, for some reason, proprietary browser developers don't want to support open video formats. It's not a red herring, it's a real problem that threatens the principles of openness on which the Web has been built (openness in the "anyone is free to make an implementation" sense).
The circle is the perfect mathematical shape. It has had the most profound impact on humans, it appears everywhere: in nature, in science and in art.
Inside it you should put the text: "Haha, despite appearances this is in fact an open disc on the surface of a 2-sphere (insert formula for area here), and all you hot ladies had best avoid me because I'm such a geeky weirdo!"
Asking a market analyst what happens when the cost of production reaches zero and is available everywhere is like asking a physicist what happens inside a black hole - neither one has the foggiest fucking idea.
A smart analyst can always take the limit as production cost goes to zero, and voilà, a perfectly good answer;-)
More seriously, it is not that hard a problem. Think of the many things around us that are available everywhere and worthless. Dirt in the ground, twigs on a tree, water in the sea. The supply is infinite, the value is zero. Is it so hard to imagine the same, only with digital information?
What this means is that unless the aircrew saw the men attempting to help the wounded reporters pick up the reporters "weapons", they where not allowed to engage them. I would think that if the aircrew had seen the men pick up weapons, they would have mentioned this fact when requesting permission to engage - but they didn't.
Bushmaster; Crazyhorse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like possibly uh picking up bodies and weapons.
You can't blame the superior officer for giving permission to engage in these circumstances. But from the video it is clear that the gunner is simply lying. The men who come out of the van go straight to help the wounded crawling man. The gunner's fright and bloodlust must have clouded his vision.
As for the Geneva convention, it is not clear to me whether it applies in this case. After all, the responsibility is on the insurgents to wear uniforms, so that the Americans can know whom to shoot. It is not their fault that they have a really hard job distinguishing between civilian and combatant.
This was a complex situation. It is tragic that the gunner had no training and killed the journalists, but he legitimately saw weapons, even if he was in error about cameras being RPGs. He should have been punished for his poor judgement, and continued fighting. However, his firing on the van and killing the civilians in and around it is completely unjustified. He should have been court marshalled and severely punished for such irresponsible behaviour.
The broader problem is how the soldiers in the video sound completely immature and not up to dealing with the responsibilities of being a member of the army. They seem frightened, unprepared, timid, unable to think critically and rather bloodthirsty. If this is representative of the US military in general, then I'd say they have a serious problem that should be solved on the policymaking level.
But the gravest problem of all, which everyone seems to be missing, and which WikiLeaks points out with the opening quote, is the lies, doublespeak and cover-ups of the US military/government. If situations such as this are kept secret, there state has no accountability, and democracy, or, taking it further, personal freedom, cannot be upheld.
I agree that iostreams are ugly, but they are not strictly part of the language and you don't have to use them if you know any better.
Templates are actually quite useful for performance, when you want parameters incorporated into the code at compile time, instead of evaluated by the cpu at run time. I acknowlege that this can be taken to the extreme: I know of one guy implemented a C++ template raytracer, where the image is produced entirely by the compiler at compile time instead of by the program. But if you care about performance, templates let you get away with less code than C, and no loss of performance at all.
Operator overloading is crucial for when you implement algebraic data types. Have you seen the Vector3d class in Java3D? If you ask me to choose between the potential for abuse and overly-verbose hard-to-read code, I'll take abuse without hesitation.
I'll give you the one about passing by reference. In my book non-const references should basically only be used in operator functions, but it seems a significant number of C++ programmers thinks differently. Still, again the fault is not with the language but with programmers.
I guess you could sum all of this up this way: C++ is a great language, and you can write much better code in C++ than in many, maybe even most, other similar languages, but it is also much easier to abuse by bad programmers. If you have a good team that you can trust, then go for it!
The creators don't need to be compensated for anything. If they can't come up with a business model that gives them money then they should change profession. It's not the responsibility of the general population to bend over and take it from abusive copyright holders, just because they "need" to be compensated.
Really, there are only two possible conclusions of this situation:
Abolish restrictions on non-commercial copying
Introduce total surveillance over all personal communication
The funny thing is that the number of allowed region changes is normally odd, meaning that after switching back and forth, once you run out, you're stuck in a foreign region rather than the one your drive came with. I wonder if it's designed this way on purpose or not.
That, too, but once these kids grow up, they are already accustomed to being able to get movies quickly, conveniently, and in a format that gives them full control over how they watch them and what they do with them. A large fraction of these kids will probably gladly pay a small price for each download in a similar service, but will stick to BitTorrent if you try to take their freedom, convenience and inexpensive cost away from them.
All of the above lack either quality or user control. Some have quirks like needing to break encryption and being careful about your hardware locking up due to changing region codes. None can replace BitTorrent, even when not taking price into consideration.
Does anyone really care about OSI, or being certified as "open source"?
The real problem is the GPL-incompatibility. What's the point of releasing this library if a large fraction of free software programs can't use it? For example, mplayer is GPL, ffmpeg is GPL (unless you disable features), vlc is GPL, even firefox is GPL (unless you choose one of the two other licenses). In other words, even though technically it's free software, the library is useless.
It might not be so serious if the license is compatible with GPL3. It is not clear at all, at the moment, if it is, but it's clearly not compatible with GPL2. Even so, seeing as many programs are licensed GPL2+ or GPL2-only, this could rule it out for them.
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Ah, but to arrive at such a conclusion you need to make a non-trivial logical deduction based on arcane prior knowledge involving abstract relationships and mathematical concepts such as suprema, a feat that not many can accomplish!
I like the music in frogatto. It's a GPL-engine, proprietary-data old-school-style indie platformer. The music is just as you describe, with some rough edges but the style is very refreshing compared to what we have been made used to in games.
The resolution might seem low to you, but in fact if you look at the number of pixels, it's not worse than other commonly used resolutions. For example, 1280x1024 is 1.31e6 pixels, while 1600x900, a 16:9 resolution, is 1.44e6 pixels, only a 10% improvement, where just by looking at 1600/1280 you'd expect it to be 25%. If the current trend continues, soon we will have 2048x1 resolutions with an amazing cinematic aspect ratio and the fewest possible pixels.
I have a countermeasure that renders this proxy useless. Will sell it to any interested government for a bargain price of $1M.
(actually it's grep, but don't tell anyone!)
This is a pretty important point. Since web standards are moving towards distributing web pages as computer programs rather than static documents, there will be nothing to prevent them from doing weird stuff on your screen. I'm having doubts as to whether this is real progress.
I take it you've never printed any code in your life. Given a blank sheet of paper and a legible font size, you *are* given a character width limitation. Assuming a monospace font, 80 columns is pretty reasonable for that purpose. In longer lines it is also harder to figure out what's going on. If your lines are too long, maybe you should use more intermediate variables?
Also, it's not 640x480, it's 80x24 (or 80x25) ;-)
I do most of my writing in proportional fonts. I use two spaces after periods at the end of sentences. It just looks better, Except where the word processor (usually MS Word) stretches words too far apart (MS never heard of letter spacing?) in full justification, then I'll go back and change it to a single space.
Such tweaking will always cause problems in the long run, especially in longer documents. May I instead recommend using LyX, a text editor which uses LaTeX as the underlying typesetting engine (but in which knowledge of LaTeX is not required). It won't let you type two consecutive spaces, but in the output it will insert a longer space between sentences.
After all, shouldn't it be the job of the typesetting program to do the typesetting, and not the author of the text? I mean, you don't do hyphenation manually, why would you do the same with spacing? I only use double spaces in plain text files, and don't try to manually correct any of the more sophisticated editors.
Go to Norway and visit their cloning research programme.
Proprietary browsers are all supporting H264 already
There, fixed that for you. Free browsers will never be able to support H264 and this is one half of the problem. The other half is that, for some reason, proprietary browser developers don't want to support open video formats. It's not a red herring, it's a real problem that threatens the principles of openness on which the Web has been built (openness in the "anyone is free to make an implementation" sense).
The circle is the perfect mathematical shape. It has had the most profound impact on humans, it appears everywhere: in nature, in science and in art.
Inside it you should put the text: "Haha, despite appearances this is in fact an open disc on the surface of a 2-sphere (insert formula for area here), and all you hot ladies had best avoid me because I'm such a geeky weirdo!"
My car does not do 100 MPH, you insensitive clod! And at 90 the engine is revved up like crazy while the car ceases to drive stably.
Makes you think of the children?
RSS, obviously!
Asking a market analyst what happens when the cost of production reaches zero and is available everywhere is like asking a physicist what happens inside a black hole - neither one has the foggiest fucking idea.
A smart analyst can always take the limit as production cost goes to zero, and voilà, a perfectly good answer ;-)
More seriously, it is not that hard a problem. Think of the many things around us that are available everywhere and worthless. Dirt in the ground, twigs on a tree, water in the sea. The supply is infinite, the value is zero. Is it so hard to imagine the same, only with digital information?
Because he likes to spend time debugging his creations?
Obviously this beverage is produced by the North Koreans' fusion reactor!
What this means is that unless the aircrew saw the men attempting to help the wounded reporters pick up the reporters "weapons", they where not allowed to engage them. I would think that if the aircrew had seen the men pick up weapons, they would have mentioned this fact when requesting permission to engage - but they didn't.
Look at the transcript. At 7:18, the gunner says:
Bushmaster; Crazyhorse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like possibly uh picking up bodies and weapons.
You can't blame the superior officer for giving permission to engage in these circumstances. But from the video it is clear that the gunner is simply lying. The men who come out of the van go straight to help the wounded crawling man. The gunner's fright and bloodlust must have clouded his vision.
As for the Geneva convention, it is not clear to me whether it applies in this case. After all, the responsibility is on the insurgents to wear uniforms, so that the Americans can know whom to shoot. It is not their fault that they have a really hard job distinguishing between civilian and combatant.
This was a complex situation. It is tragic that the gunner had no training and killed the journalists, but he legitimately saw weapons, even if he was in error about cameras being RPGs. He should have been punished for his poor judgement, and continued fighting. However, his firing on the van and killing the civilians in and around it is completely unjustified. He should have been court marshalled and severely punished for such irresponsible behaviour.
The broader problem is how the soldiers in the video sound completely immature and not up to dealing with the responsibilities of being a member of the army. They seem frightened, unprepared, timid, unable to think critically and rather bloodthirsty. If this is representative of the US military in general, then I'd say they have a serious problem that should be solved on the policymaking level.
But the gravest problem of all, which everyone seems to be missing, and which WikiLeaks points out with the opening quote, is the lies, doublespeak and cover-ups of the US military/government. If situations such as this are kept secret, there state has no accountability, and democracy, or, taking it further, personal freedom, cannot be upheld.
No, but it would help if you said "plz".
I agree that iostreams are ugly, but they are not strictly part of the language and you don't have to use them if you know any better.
Templates are actually quite useful for performance, when you want parameters incorporated into the code at compile time, instead of evaluated by the cpu at run time. I acknowlege that this can be taken to the extreme: I know of one guy implemented a C++ template raytracer, where the image is produced entirely by the compiler at compile time instead of by the program. But if you care about performance, templates let you get away with less code than C, and no loss of performance at all.
Operator overloading is crucial for when you implement algebraic data types. Have you seen the Vector3d class in Java3D? If you ask me to choose between the potential for abuse and overly-verbose hard-to-read code, I'll take abuse without hesitation.
I'll give you the one about passing by reference. In my book non-const references should basically only be used in operator functions, but it seems a significant number of C++ programmers thinks differently. Still, again the fault is not with the language but with programmers.
I guess you could sum all of this up this way: C++ is a great language, and you can write much better code in C++ than in many, maybe even most, other similar languages, but it is also much easier to abuse by bad programmers. If you have a good team that you can trust, then go for it!
The creators don't need to be compensated for anything. If they can't come up with a business model that gives them money then they should change profession. It's not the responsibility of the general population to bend over and take it from abusive copyright holders, just because they "need" to be compensated.
Really, there are only two possible conclusions of this situation:
I prefer number 1, which one do you prefer?
The funny thing is that the number of allowed region changes is normally odd, meaning that after switching back and forth, once you run out, you're stuck in a foreign region rather than the one your drive came with. I wonder if it's designed this way on purpose or not.
Essentially, broke teenage kids want free stuff.
That, too, but once these kids grow up, they are already accustomed to being able to get movies quickly, conveniently, and in a format that gives them full control over how they watch them and what they do with them. A large fraction of these kids will probably gladly pay a small price for each download in a similar service, but will stick to BitTorrent if you try to take their freedom, convenience and inexpensive cost away from them.
He said good.
All of the above lack either quality or user control. Some have quirks like needing to break encryption and being careful about your hardware locking up due to changing region codes. None can replace BitTorrent, even when not taking price into consideration.
Does anyone really care about OSI, or being certified as "open source"?
The real problem is the GPL-incompatibility. What's the point of releasing this library if a large fraction of free software programs can't use it? For example, mplayer is GPL, ffmpeg is GPL (unless you disable features), vlc is GPL, even firefox is GPL (unless you choose one of the two other licenses). In other words, even though technically it's free software, the library is useless.
It might not be so serious if the license is compatible with GPL3. It is not clear at all, at the moment, if it is, but it's clearly not compatible with GPL2. Even so, seeing as many programs are licensed GPL2+ or GPL2-only, this could rule it out for them.
This idea was invented by Shampoo.