I'm getting really fed up by that kind of comment. Mostly, about the mods who think they are "interesting".
If you were arguing about the relevancy of this story being on/. , I would understand. Of course, nothing else seems to have happened tosay, so it's ok.
If you were just trolling, I would understand, too. It's fun to troll.
If you think that people shouldn't GPL stuff just for the sake of it, because it's an innecesary increase of entropy, then why do you make things worse by adding a completely useless comment to it? At least some people will look at the code, and maybe learn one thing or two about how to design, or how not to design, a compiler. That's more anyone could say about your comment. Just a useless waste of bytes. Stating that some other guys work is worthless, without even looking at it.
Yes, there is. I live in Uruguay, and textbooks are cheaper here than there. Seems that you pay for it. RTAC is a program financed by the US government to print spanish translated US textbooks, and distributing them very cheaply throughout spanish speaking countries of América. Computer Networks, by AST is $80 new, on Amazon.com. You can buy it here for around $30, new, in spanish, financed by the US government.
In the old times, it was called cultural imperialism (let's give them our books, before the commies do, so they adopt our culture and not theirs). Now it's just inertia, or a way to keep the cheap labor coming (there are lots of computer professionals here right now who will work for little $, in US or Indian companies, or even go to the US to work).
Aluminum spray paint works perfectly. I tried with the non-shiny side of tinfoil, and it works perfectly. I don't have a projector, I made the crt+box+fresnel as a proof of concept, but I went as far as to prove that plastic polarizers do work, and tinfoil or spraypaint are pretty good at keeping polarization (you get complete black when looking through an orthogonal polarizer).
I even read some posts in a DIY forum about getting some framed screen, tight, and spray painting it, with good results.
Governments don't become corrupt just because of their political orientation. They do, just because they _can_. Probably, anyone who has read Marx, would agree that communist regimes wouldn't be such a bad idea, if they didn't give _so_ much power to government over regular people. That kind of power is what leads to corruption. If some random government officer can track you, eventually they will, and eventually they will make funded or unfunded assumptions of the danger you are for society. The ony thing that shields you from that is some kind of privacy.
Speed is important. Brands are important. What's more important is content. Apple knows that, and that's why they sell the ipod. DRM is crucial, because it helps the manufacturer get great content deals. Of course, I wouldn't buy DRMed crap, but most people would, and they have lots of money compared to me.
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No, you don't. You can run it on borrowed hardware, or on any hardware you can get for free. Plus, firefox is free as in freedom, meaning lots of things aside from costs.
Bayesian filters are not spam filters. Spam filters are a good tool used to filter spam. I agree with you that spam filters need to improve, including others tools _in_addition_to_ bayesian filters.
Nevertheless, seeing that bayesian filters are just a tool used in spam filters, your claims are nonsensical. Bayesian filters existed before spam filters, and they have lots of applications. In fact, this is not the first time a bayesian filter is applied to chess.
Bayesian filters are good at anything that requires automatic learning (kind of a self-evolving AI), that only needs a measure of success and failure to mold its behaviour. Chess is even better suited than spam, because you don't need a user to tell the filter whether it succeeded in playing a match, like it happens with spam filtering.
It's the same thing. Unix-style programmers just think that B- is more important than A- for the success of most projects.
The issue is that when you care too much about A, especially if you try to make it easy for people who don't even know what they are trying to do with the software, you might fail to accomplish making a good, useful program for those who need it to get work done.
I believe one should care first about making good quality software, including good design, and good usability. You need to take into acount the lifetime of the software, so you will be much more succesful if you care about good, logical, reusable design, before you care about the colors of your forms. Those are important, but right after you made a good job with the backend.
Those are pixels, if you are talking about LCDs. Native pixels if you like, but there are 230k pixels with no difference among them but the tint that covers them. You need 230k pixels, divided in three colors, to make a 320x240 LCD picture. As long as they state the actual usable color resolution, it's ok that they also state the native pixel count they use to achieve 320x240xcolor.
"When I look at all the cool stuff you can do with a mobile phone these days, I'm unimpressed. I just want something that lets me make a clear, uninterrupted phone call."
You are supposed to buy what you do want, not what you don't want. There are phones that do work. Buy them. Don't buy the ones that don't.
There's this thing, the Internet, where you can search for other peoples views on phone models, so you can get what you need. Just buying the latest models, just won't work. Companies sell what people buy. If you are willing to buy shit, they will sell shit, with a ribbon on top. It's you fault, not theirs.
TB - I'm supposed to be a "troll" for asking if you actually had any clue
AKAIB - Mods, will you please fix that? It's very annoying when we're trying to have a discussion and you go around modding people into oblivion.
Hey! The guy _is_ a troll, maybe non intentional, but if you follow his history, if you actually read his comments, you will se his is at least a flamer, and maybe even a troll.
There are people who do like and enjoy MS products and tactics honestly, but this guy just acts as a MS cheerleader in/. just for the purpose of baiting people.
GNU is not about information, it's about code, it's the Free _Software_ Foundation that's behind it, not the Free _Info_ foundation or whatever.
Free Software is not about all kinds of freedom. It's just about software. It's like that, because in the context of software, freedom is much more obviously necessary than in other contexts, where its benefits can be more subtle.
What you are talking about is those guys that say the "information wants to be free" stuff. I like that, but GNU/FSF has nothing to do with them.
You just need to learn more statistics. Just imagine. 10 out of 100000 organisms get a light sensor. They are better, so they become dominant. Of the mutant offspring, lots do have a tendency to develop more than one light sensor. More light sensors are better than one. Now you have a fly-like eye. Focusing lenses are easy. The sensor must be protected by something, because it doesn't work otherwise, and the clearer the better, and those who have better focusing clear flesh covers for their eyes, can sense better their environment, and find better partners. What you view as a huge advantage, can be broken into lots of incremental advantages that are easily explained by evolution. Of course, it's almost magical that evolution can happen just by birth and death. You never stop to think that all the tasks a modern computer can perform are just the result of the arrangement of "nand" gates, but there's no magic, and we understand it, because it's simple enough to be understood. For evolution, it has the advantage of thousands of millions of years of incremental design.
The whole idea is that there is no need to lose the old interfaces. For me, it's a good idea to use DCOP, or whatever, to script, but also accept pipes. In my case, I don't like or use KDE, but I might like one app that does what I want. It would be nice to be able to talk to it the way I talk to everything, through the network or files, if I ever need to. The power of pipes is that I already know how to do lots of tasks with them, and I have them in lots of systems. DCOP might be nice, but for example, I can't use that on Windows by default, and most apps everywhere don't use DCOP. Pipes are easy and universal. I say, use DCOP, but keep pipes.
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Jennifer Aniston + Angelina Jolie.
I believe a guy shouldn't be forced to choose.
I'm getting really fed up by that kind of comment.
/. , I would understand. Of course, nothing else seems to have happened tosay, so it's ok.
Mostly, about the mods who think they are "interesting".
If you were arguing about the relevancy of this story being on
If you were just trolling, I would understand, too. It's fun to troll.
If you think that people shouldn't GPL stuff just for the sake of it, because it's an innecesary increase of entropy, then why do you make things worse by adding a completely useless comment to it?
At least some people will look at the code, and maybe learn one thing or two about how to design, or how not to design, a compiler.
That's more anyone could say about your comment.
Just a useless waste of bytes. Stating that some other guys work is worthless, without even looking at it.
Shame on you.
I sticked with slackware, and I'm a happy monkey now.
Yes, there is.
I live in Uruguay, and textbooks are cheaper here than there.
Seems that you pay for it. RTAC is a program financed by the US government to print spanish translated US textbooks, and distributing them very cheaply throughout spanish speaking countries of América.
Computer Networks, by AST is $80 new, on Amazon.com.
You can buy it here for around $30, new, in spanish, financed by the US government.
In the old times, it was called cultural imperialism (let's give them our books, before the commies do, so they adopt our culture and not theirs).
Now it's just inertia, or a way to keep the cheap labor coming (there are lots of computer professionals here right now who will work for little $, in US or Indian companies, or even go to the US to work).
Don't look a gift horse in the license, more likely.
And we know how much burn yo can get from that.
Aluminum spray paint works perfectly.
I tried with the non-shiny side of tinfoil, and it works perfectly.
I don't have a projector, I made the crt+box+fresnel as a proof of concept, but I went as far as to prove that plastic polarizers do work, and tinfoil or spraypaint are pretty good at keeping polarization (you get complete black when looking through an orthogonal polarizer).
I even read some posts in a DIY forum about getting some framed screen, tight, and spray painting it, with good results.
(Yes I know this is a dumb idea, but at least you would have to take your hands off the keyboard
Or you could use a glass table and use the movement sensor to track your... feet?
Mine has a bell.
Tel... tele... teleph.... no, sorry, doesn't ring a bell.
Mine does.
Governments don't become corrupt just because of their political orientation. They do, just because they _can_.
Probably, anyone who has read Marx, would agree that communist regimes wouldn't be such a bad idea, if they didn't give _so_ much power to government over regular people. That kind of power is what leads to corruption.
If some random government officer can track you, eventually they will, and eventually they will make funded or unfunded assumptions of the danger you are for society.
The ony thing that shields you from that is some kind of privacy.
Speed is important.
Brands are important.
What's more important is content.
Apple knows that, and that's why they sell the ipod.
DRM is crucial, because it helps the manufacturer get great content deals.
Of course, I wouldn't buy DRMed crap, but most people would, and they have lots of money compared to me.
Again.
It's all about coolness.
Regular mp3 players with 1Gb are a dime a dozen.
The whole idea is the C00l|\|3z factor.
Plus it's smaller than the Ipod, plus it has radio, plus it has a display, an OLED display!
What I mean is that maybe it doesn't appeal to ipod buyers, but it sure has some appeal of its own, and even some convenience.
24 mm / 25.4 mm/inch = 0.945 inches
0.945" ^3 = 0.844 cubic inches, or something near that.
1.06 is bigger than 0.844
And it's a cube.
It's cool.
Just because Apple doesn't sell it, it doens't mean it can't seem cool to some people.
Of course, the shuffle is still easier to fit in your pocket, still.
And maybe it's not for your pocket, it's something to hang with your keys. Or hanging from your neck.
Or sitting on your desk.
Maybe part of the fun is that it's not for the masses.
Saludos, Capitán Obvio!
No, you don't.
You can run it on borrowed hardware, or on any hardware you can get for free.
Plus, firefox is free as in freedom, meaning lots of things aside from costs.
Bayesian filters are not spam filters.
Spam filters are a good tool used to filter spam.
I agree with you that spam filters need to improve, including others tools _in_addition_to_ bayesian filters.
Nevertheless, seeing that bayesian filters are just a tool used in spam filters, your claims are nonsensical. Bayesian filters existed before spam filters, and they have lots of applications. In fact, this is not the first time a bayesian filter is applied to chess.
Bayesian filters are good at anything that requires automatic learning (kind of a self-evolving AI), that only needs a measure of success and failure to mold its behaviour.
Chess is even better suited than spam, because you don't need a user to tell the filter whether it succeeded in playing a match, like it happens with spam filtering.
It's the same thing.
Unix-style programmers just think that B- is more important than A- for the success of most projects.
The issue is that when you care too much about A, especially if you try to make it easy for people who don't even know what they are trying to do with the software, you might fail to accomplish making a good, useful program for those who need it to get work done.
I believe one should care first about making good quality software, including good design, and good usability. You need to take into acount the lifetime of the software, so you will be much more succesful if you care about good, logical, reusable design, before you care about the colors of your forms. Those are important, but right after you made a good job with the backend.
Those are pixels, if you are talking about LCDs.
Native pixels if you like, but there are 230k pixels with no difference among them but the tint that covers them.
You need 230k pixels, divided in three colors, to make a 320x240 LCD picture.
As long as they state the actual usable color resolution, it's ok that they also state the native pixel count they use to achieve 320x240xcolor.
"When I look at all the cool stuff you can do with a mobile phone these days, I'm unimpressed. I just want something that lets me make a clear, uninterrupted phone call."
You are supposed to buy what you do want, not what you don't want.
There are phones that do work.
Buy them.
Don't buy the ones that don't.
There's this thing, the Internet, where you can search for other peoples views on phone models, so you can get what you need.
Just buying the latest models, just won't work.
Companies sell what people buy. If you are willing to buy shit, they will sell shit, with a ribbon on top. It's you fault, not theirs.
TB - I'm supposed to be a "troll" for asking if you actually had any clue
/. just for the purpose of baiting people.
AKAIB - Mods, will you please fix that? It's very annoying when we're trying to have a discussion and you go around modding people into oblivion.
Hey!
The guy _is_ a troll, maybe non intentional, but if you follow his history, if you actually read his comments, you will se his is at least a flamer, and maybe even a troll.
There are people who do like and enjoy MS products and tactics honestly, but this guy just acts as a MS cheerleader in
(-1, Troll), is ok, I believe.
Animals that are often prey can see almost 180 degrees around, because their eyes are almost opposite from each other.
Those who aren't, can use them better on the front.
GNU is not about information, it's about code, it's the Free _Software_ Foundation that's behind it, not the Free _Info_ foundation or whatever.
Free Software is not about all kinds of freedom. It's just about software. It's like that, because in the context of software, freedom is much more obviously necessary than in other contexts, where its benefits can be more subtle.
What you are talking about is those guys that say the "information wants to be free" stuff. I like that, but GNU/FSF has nothing to do with them.
You just need to learn more statistics.
Just imagine.
10 out of 100000 organisms get a light sensor.
They are better, so they become dominant.
Of the mutant offspring, lots do have a tendency to develop more than one light sensor.
More light sensors are better than one.
Now you have a fly-like eye.
Focusing lenses are easy.
The sensor must be protected by something, because it doesn't work otherwise, and the clearer the better, and those who have better focusing clear flesh covers for their eyes, can sense better their environment, and find better partners.
What you view as a huge advantage, can be broken into lots of incremental advantages that are easily explained by evolution.
Of course, it's almost magical that evolution can happen just by birth and death.
You never stop to think that all the tasks a modern computer can perform are just the result of the arrangement of "nand" gates, but there's no magic, and we understand it, because it's simple enough to be understood.
For evolution, it has the advantage of thousands of millions of years of incremental design.
The whole idea is that there is no need to lose the old interfaces.
For me, it's a good idea to use DCOP, or whatever, to script, but also accept pipes.
In my case, I don't like or use KDE, but I might like one app that does what I want. It would be nice to be able to talk to it the way I talk to everything, through the network or files, if I ever need to.
The power of pipes is that I already know how to do lots of tasks with them, and I have them in lots of systems.
DCOP might be nice, but for example, I can't use that on Windows by default, and most apps everywhere don't use DCOP. Pipes are easy and universal. I say, use DCOP, but keep pipes.