I agree. That sounds better than tax. I'm not huge into taxing people left and right. But I just feel that companies need to feel a hit even if it's artificial when they do stupid things like this. In the end, tax payers have to pay for it and man, I don't want to pay for it.
We should make companies who make disposable products to pay a tax for clean up. Encouraging customers to throw shit away into land fill is irresponsible. One day we will pay for it.
Ask yourself this. There are in fact several open source languages being developed some based on new ideas. Why have you not been interested in any of them?
Why? Because there is no momentum behind these languages. Creating a language and then creating a momentum behind it is VERY difficult. Look how long it took Python to gain the popularity it has today. It nearly started around the time of perl.
Secondly, it's a nice language and people wanted to implement it. There you have it.
They are asking the wrong people for a standard. They need ask to ask the porn industry which standard to pick. Once the porn industries start belting out 800+ movies per month watch them units jump off the shelves and hit your open mouth!
If you don't want to do all that, get yourself a chat-cord (http://www.chatcord.com/ and just connect your soundcard to your phone using regular pots line. No need to do any modifications. If you buy it through fwd (fwd.pulver.com) it'll only cost you 19.99 (plus 10 bucks shipping unfortunatly)
I've been using this product and it rocks. My wife and I were just talking to our relatives and if you're phone has a sattelite the two of you can talk at the same time!
It comes with free software (on XP) that will allow you to dial a number from the phone as well. Not possible yet in linux, but if you know how to decode the DTMF signals, one could easily write something to do the calling for you through the SKYPE API.
The quality has been great, and you can also use it for free world dialup or whatever. The only disadvantage is that it's not like a real phone, it won't ring if someone calls you. You have to rely on perhaps your computer ringing through the speakers.
Why are studios paying everyone so little? From the article it looks like the people who did "V for Vendetta" are only getting 8K each? WTF? 8K while everyone gets 6 figures? Shit I don't think the cameraman gets that little.
Thats sad when the people who make the genius work get paid so little. Strong IP laws indeed. Maybe the little IP owners should make do something about it. Sounds like to me some collectiv bargaining (and no I don't mean union here) needs to be done.
As I kid I thought it was "Ashland" when it was "Aslan". I reverted to the name I used as a kid since that was the one I recalled more than 'Aslan'. I haven't read the Narnia Chronicles for well over 15 years.
The "Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" movie from the 70s was really awesome. As kids, I remember watching it and getting all emotional about Ashland, the lion. It was brilliant for me. I haven't watched it since so I don't know how my adult self would react to it now. But I do have fond memories.
I've read the books up to Prince of Narnia, but I haven't read past that. Most of his books have been brilliant.
When I saw the title I thought it was a reality show about mozilla developers trying to churn out features. I'm not sure how well that was going to work. I just can't get really worked up over mozilla source code..:)
I've been trying to figure out how to maximize netflix subscription by sharing it with other people. I'm not a big movie watcher and neither is my wife. We would rent about 2 movies a year from blockbuster.
But the idea to share among multiple families who are like would be interesting.
The question is:
How many families needed in order to maximize the amount of movies among the families in order to watch 3 dvds every day so we end up sending the movies back the next day? There's got to be a good algorithm to do that.:-) If I were to somehow use the algorithm for tcp, I wonder if I could communicate with Netflix efficiently enough to get good throughput.
Then I would maximize my 25 dollars a month for the maximum amount of pleasure with the minimalist of costs. Baby, I want MAX/MAX/MIN baby.
But this is a technical conference according to the article. They're talking about standards here. Why would one's political past come into play here? If someone voted for someone they thought best and then prevented to go to a non-political conference because of that opinion, don't you think there's something wrong with that?
If you have the prequisite skills to make an impact you should be able to go. Unless you believe that a man would somehow "fuck it up" just to make America and by extension the Administration look bad. More likely, it would make Nokia look bad. So I'm not sure what your arguing here for. As a libertarian I would think you would frown on govt interference based on political past.
Seth Lord and RIAA Chief Mitch Bainwol, felt a sudden disturbance in the force. It was a like a thousand music producers and label execs suddenly cried out in grief and dispair.
Remember that funding for running the university is from the state. But if you want to get research money, the federal govt is the biggest investor in research and thats the part thats come down. Plus you add rules and you've got crap.
I singled out the Bush administration because:
a) Both Reagan, Bush Sr, spent a lot of money on research (part of defense spending) b) Clinton I dont' think did as much, but certainly didn't add a lot of rules.
If you look in the story about new DARPA rules, you'll see that a lot of CS/Engineering/Physics is done by DARPA and NSF.
He didn't seem to have used his B.S. in technology all that much. But Carter was by definition one of the finest men in politics. Too bad, thats not the kind of men you want in politics.:-) He got eaten alive by the Republicans.
I think you've not been looking to see who is on the faculty of those math and science departments. They are dominated by the Chinese. Historically, the chinese are expert mathematicians. The Egyptians may have created math, but the chinese have math down to an artform.
Both countries are very very good at math and science because of the kind of schooling they go through at a young age.
No, what the U.S. is good at is creative thinking and what to do with the science you've learned. Thats where the U.S. has it's strongest strength. We teach creativity in our school. (or rather we used to)
The Bush administration have steadily been screwing over the educational system due to lack of federal funding, restrictive rules. You won't be having the best schools for long since foreigners can't do any research anymore. I think you're going to see the end of any innovation thanks to this adminstration's anti immigration bent. 911 has done it's job, it's the beginning of the end.
I think they are getting hurt again from the time Sun tried to sell x86 Solaris machines and then abandoned ship without so much as a good bye we're sorry.
This has seriously pissed off Intel which has since been making trying to beat Sun into hamburger. Maybe some companies have a long memory. Strange as that may seem.
Being able to control every aspect of your desktop is not "feature rich". It just means you can control the behavior of any particular feature.
Really, both desktops offer pretty much the same thing. The technology is a bit different under the hood it's relatively the same. The manner the features are presented are fairly different.
KDE appeals to people who wish to control the desktop's behavior. This is usually linked to the fact that the people who use it tend to look at their computer as something that they must conform to their particular environment. (it's why some people still use twm or fvwm over a modern desktop)
GNOME tries to take an approach of using sensible defaults so that you cut down on the number of decision making that you have to do when you do a task. Hence it's very task oriented. This appeals to people who use the computer simply as a power tool and nothing else. One example is if you look at the Totem, the multimedia program to play DVDs and what not, you'll notice that it does not distinguish between opening a DVD, VCD, SVCD or what not but rather has a simple action called "Open Disc".
Both projects need to exist because of who we are. KDE and GNOME are moving towards to a common architecture but with different approaches and thats great because we borrow from each other through the freedesktop umbrella.
Read the previous GNOME Journal issue, and you'll see I wrote an article talking about this.
The only hitch is that they dont' have a visa to enter space.:) If they do, odds are that is that the Gujus(Gujaratis) will have populated most of space with space motels in 7-8 years!
(speaking as one has to do visa submission for wife for every fucking country we have to go to) If India is so advanced why is indian citizenship worth shite? Gah.
You might consider reading this then: http://www.gnuarch.org/arch-overview.html and this: http://www.gnuarch.org/arch-tech.html
That tells how arch works. It would have taken too long in that interview for him to explain everything. But here is what you need to know:
Arch is a revision control system the only tools you need is:
* tar * patch * diff * diff3
Thats it. Anything those tools can do you can do. Remember this when years down the road, arch or whatever is gone and you need to recover some old archive. Use those tools above and you can get it all back. Compare that with the proprietary solutions.
One point. Modern Hindus typically do not have multiple wives. While religious epics like Mahabharata have show kings with multiple wives, it's generally not followed by the local populous.
Yeah, and most of the population would not be able to understand his answers either.:-) We've evolved into a population of sound bites and it takes too much attention to actually listen to thoughtful answers.
It would take a revolution to get people to wake up and listen.
On that note, some of his stuff is still kind of vague. I would like to still hear about the environment since thats a hot button for me. It's hard to take faith in individuals doing the right thing because people are already morally bankrupt so how can we trust them. We tend to trust the government because supposedly they are answerable to the people (and other marketing terms.:-)
I'm also interested to know how he deals with threats to the U.S. especially this shadow war we have with terrorists. I want to hear what kind of diplomacy he would use, what his foreign policy is. This is all local stuff. Slashdot tends to focus on this kind of stuff, but foreign relations are very important.
sri
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I agree. That sounds better than tax. I'm not huge into taxing people left and right. But I just feel that companies need to feel a hit even if it's artificial when they do stupid things like this. In the end, tax payers have to pay for it and man, I don't want to pay for it.
sri
We should make companies who make disposable products to pay a tax for clean up. Encouraging customers to throw shit away into land fill is irresponsible. One day we will pay for it.
sri
Ask yourself this. There are in fact several open source languages being developed some based on new ideas. Why have you not been interested in any of them?
Why? Because there is no momentum behind these languages. Creating a language and then creating a momentum behind it is VERY difficult. Look how long it took Python to gain the popularity it has today. It nearly started around the time of perl.
Secondly, it's a nice language and people wanted to implement it. There you have it.
sri
They are asking the wrong people for a standard. They need ask to ask the porn industry which standard to pick. Once the porn industries start belting out 800+ movies per month watch them units jump off the shelves and hit your open mouth!
sri
Oh man, can you believe it? If you have digital arm, the Christian right can now stop you from masturbating. DRM on prostethics! :)
sri
If you don't want to do all that, get yourself a chat-cord (http://www.chatcord.com/ and just connect your soundcard to your phone using regular pots line. No need to do any modifications. If you buy it through fwd (fwd.pulver.com) it'll only cost you 19.99 (plus 10 bucks shipping unfortunatly)
I've been using this product and it rocks. My wife and I were just talking to our relatives and if you're phone has a sattelite the two of you can talk at the same time!
It comes with free software (on XP) that will allow you to dial a number from the phone as well. Not possible yet in linux, but if you know how to decode the DTMF signals, one could easily write something to do the calling for you through the SKYPE API.
The quality has been great, and you can also use it for free world dialup or whatever. The only disadvantage is that it's not like a real phone, it won't ring if someone calls you. You have to rely on perhaps your computer ringing through the speakers.
sri
Why are studios paying everyone so little? From the article it looks like the people who did "V for Vendetta" are only getting 8K each? WTF? 8K while everyone gets 6 figures? Shit I don't think the cameraman gets that little.
Thats sad when the people who make the genius work get paid so little. Strong IP laws indeed. Maybe the little IP owners should make do something about it. Sounds like to me some collectiv bargaining (and no I don't mean union here) needs to be done.
sri
As I kid I thought it was "Ashland" when it was "Aslan". I reverted to the name I used as a kid since that was the one I recalled more than 'Aslan'. I haven't read the Narnia Chronicles for well over 15 years.
sri
The "Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" movie from the 70s was really awesome. As kids, I remember watching it and getting all emotional about Ashland, the lion. It was brilliant for me. I haven't watched it since so I don't know how my adult self would react to it now. But I do have fond memories.
I've read the books up to Prince of Narnia, but I haven't read past that. Most of his books have been brilliant.
sri
When I saw the title I thought it was a reality show about mozilla developers trying to churn out features. I'm not sure how well that was going to work. I just can't get really worked up over mozilla source code.. :)
sri
So..
:-) If I were to somehow use the algorithm for tcp, I wonder if I could communicate with Netflix efficiently enough to get good throughput.
I've been trying to figure out how to maximize netflix subscription by sharing it with other people. I'm not a big movie watcher and neither is my wife. We would rent about 2 movies a year from blockbuster.
But the idea to share among multiple families who are like would be interesting.
The question is:
How many families needed in order to maximize the amount of movies among the families in order to watch 3 dvds every day so we end up sending the movies back the next day? There's got to be a good algorithm to do that.
Then I would maximize my 25 dollars a month for the maximum amount of pleasure with the minimalist of costs. Baby, I want MAX/MAX/MIN baby.
What kind of network stack would that be?
[Me]
[TV] [Web page]
[DVD] [Warehouse]
[Mail/Link] -> [Mail/Link]
No, something's not right..the request would come from me -> webpage..so maybe it's not exactly a network model yet.
Oh yeah? Come on I dare you..you think that lazy snoozer, Taft would have done it?
sri
But this is a technical conference according to the article. They're talking about standards here. Why would one's political past come into play here? If someone voted for someone they thought best and then prevented to go to a non-political conference because of that opinion, don't you think there's something wrong with that?
If you have the prequisite skills to make an impact you should be able to go. Unless you believe that a man would somehow "fuck it up" just to make America and by extension the Administration look bad. More likely, it would make Nokia look bad. So I'm not sure what your arguing here for. As a libertarian I would think you would frown on govt interference based on political past.
sri
sri
Seth Lord and RIAA Chief Mitch Bainwol, felt a sudden disturbance in the force. It was a like a thousand music producers and label execs suddenly cried out in grief and dispair.
sri
Remember that funding for running the university is from the state. But if you want to get research money, the federal govt is the biggest investor in research and thats the part thats come down. Plus you add rules and you've got crap.
I singled out the Bush administration because:
a) Both Reagan, Bush Sr, spent a lot of money on research (part of defense spending)
b) Clinton I dont' think did as much, but certainly didn't add a lot of rules.
If you look in the story about new DARPA rules, you'll see that a lot of CS/Engineering/Physics is done by DARPA and NSF.
sri
I thought Carter was a peanut farmer?
l y_years
:-) He got eaten alive by the Republicans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Carter#Ear
He didn't seem to have used his B.S. in technology all that much. But Carter was by definition one of the finest men in politics. Too bad, thats not the kind of men you want in politics.
sri
I think you've not been looking to see who is on the faculty of those math and science departments. They are dominated by the Chinese. Historically, the chinese are expert mathematicians. The Egyptians may have created math, but the chinese have math down to an artform.
Both countries are very very good at math and science because of the kind of schooling they go through at a young age.
No, what the U.S. is good at is creative thinking and what to do with the science you've learned. Thats where the U.S. has it's strongest strength. We teach creativity in our school. (or rather we used to)
The Bush administration have steadily been screwing over the educational system due to lack of federal funding, restrictive rules. You won't be having the best schools for long since foreigners can't do any research anymore. I think you're going to see the end of any innovation thanks to this adminstration's anti immigration bent. 911 has done it's job, it's the beginning of the end.
sri
I think they are getting hurt again from the time Sun tried to sell x86 Solaris machines and then abandoned ship without so much as a good bye we're sorry.
This has seriously pissed off Intel which has since been making trying to beat Sun into hamburger. Maybe some companies have a long memory. Strange as that may seem.
sri
You may note that the article starts off somewhat Anti-GNOME. :-)
sri
Being able to control every aspect of your desktop is not "feature rich". It just means you can control the behavior of any particular feature.
Really, both desktops offer pretty much the same thing. The technology is a bit different under the hood it's relatively the same. The manner the features are presented are fairly different.
KDE appeals to people who wish to control the desktop's behavior. This is usually linked to the fact that the people who use it tend to look at their computer as something that they must conform to their particular environment. (it's why some people still use twm or fvwm over a modern desktop)
GNOME tries to take an approach of using sensible defaults so that you cut down on the number of decision making that you have to do when you do a task. Hence it's very task oriented. This appeals to people who use the computer simply as a power tool and nothing else. One example is if you look at the Totem, the multimedia program to play DVDs and what not, you'll notice that it does not distinguish between opening a DVD, VCD, SVCD or what not but rather has a simple action called "Open Disc".
Both projects need to exist because of who we are. KDE and GNOME are moving towards to a common architecture but with different approaches and thats great because we borrow from each other through the freedesktop umbrella.
Read the previous GNOME Journal issue, and you'll see I wrote an article talking about this.
sri
The only hitch is that they dont' have a visa to enter space. :) If they do, odds are that is that the Gujus(Gujaratis) will have populated most of space with space motels in 7-8 years!
(speaking as one has to do visa submission for wife for every fucking country we have to go to) If India is so advanced why is indian citizenship worth shite? Gah.
sri
You might consider reading this then:
and this:
http://www.gnuarch.org/arch-overview.html
http://www.gnuarch.org/arch-tech.html
That tells how arch works. It would have taken too long in that interview for him to explain everything. But here is what you need to know:
Arch is a revision control system the only tools you need is:
* tar
* patch
* diff
* diff3
Thats it. Anything those tools can do you can do. Remember this when years down the road, arch or whatever is gone and you need to recover some old archive. Use those tools above and you can get it all back. Compare that with the proprietary solutions.
sri
One point. Modern Hindus typically do not have multiple wives. While religious epics like Mahabharata have show kings with multiple wives, it's generally not followed by the local populous.
:-)
As to why kings have multiple wives.
"It's good to be the king"
sri
Yeah, and most of the population would not be able to understand his answers either. :-) We've evolved into a population of sound bites and it takes too much attention to actually listen to thoughtful answers.
:-)
It would take a revolution to get people to wake up and listen.
On that note, some of his stuff is still kind of vague. I would like to still hear about the environment since thats a hot button for me. It's hard to take faith in individuals doing the right thing because people are already morally bankrupt so how can we trust them. We tend to trust the government because supposedly they are answerable to the people (and other marketing terms.
I'm also interested to know how he deals with threats to the U.S. especially this shadow war we have with terrorists. I want to hear what kind of diplomacy he would use, what his foreign policy is. This is all local stuff. Slashdot tends to focus on this kind of stuff, but foreign relations are very important.
sri
Go to www.gnomejournal.org, there is actually an article on how to get GNOME 2.8 on Debian.
sri