In my experience, Firefox does a good job of representing screen and print intents with the Print Preview feature on the platforms and versions that have it (page layouts are correct for various image area sizes even when zoomed and resolution is only limited by the source raster elements). However, I'm not convinced that anyone at Mozilla knows enough about Postscript or PCL to reliably output for print in the traditional ways. On the other hand, since there's enough resource surplus on most consumer workstations to bit blit to printers or print servers by default anyway, bit bliting from Gecko's screen output to a printer is an option.
Since they know more about rendering engines than almost anyone else, and since precision of reproduction appears to remain an issue with OO.o and MSO, Mozilla could start by wrapping a basic word processor UI around their rendering engine and then add a presentations UI. (They could probably figure out something for a decent spreadsheet app based on their scripting experience, but I'm less confident about their ability to quickly grok the financial functions.) When those are good enough to be standalone, they could split them into their own thing, like Thunderbird.
Ask that again after you've tried to mail/data merge more than 5,000 records, position non-body-text elements with pixel precision, or correctly use a typefaces' j/k rules.
The considerably less resourced NeoOffice fork is much more competent, usable, and pretty for office work.
This discussion misses the social purpose and benefits of having fire departments in the first place.
If there's spare firefighting capacity from the neighboring urban municipality for them to be able to do contract work for a fee, then: a) fighting fires on non-subscribing properties does not impose a significant additional burden on the firefighters; b) the neighbouring municipality is allocating its public neighboring inefficiently; and/or c) the urban or rural municipality's taxpayers are subsidizing the other but some taxpayers are being denied access to public services on the basis of financial situation.
The rural municipality has failed to ensure that its residents' homes are protected; the risk to the neighboring subscribers' shows this. The rural municipality should either fund its own fire department, or compel its residents to subscribe to the urban municipality's fire services. The current policy has deprived the public far more good than if the subscription option were not available since it allows property values to be uncontrollably depressed and funds essential public services based on non-sustainable income.
Unions have also claimed to attempt to secure equal pay for equal work, which remains an outstanding concern for particular genders and races. Since unions have not succeeded in closing such gaps over decades since the industrial safety problems were resolved, but instead have installed a seniority regime that systematically ignores workers' performance of their duties in determining wages and job security, we should be open to breaking the unions' monopoly on representing worker rights.
It's tempting to point out that that's a factor of three drop in price per performance unit over 10 years, while CPUs, consumer gadgets, and other high technology goods have fallen in price by factors of 10 or more. However, there's no reason to compare the perishable commodity of bandwidth provided through government subsidy, to the durable goods of CPUs, cameras, etc. provided without artificial production stimulus.
The cost of copper landlines in North America have not changed by more than a factor of 2 over the last 30 years, falling somewhere in the $10-30/month range. That's a feature of non-scale-free infrastructure with sunk costs, unlike bread or televisions where the cost to produce each unit doesn't vary much with the total number of units produced. Ten bread factories cost 10 ten times the cost of 1 bread factory to operate. Ten phone or broadband head-ends cost ten times the cost of one head end, plus a fancy Cisco box or two, plus a more expensive upstream SLA. Plus, bread and television factories can ramp up or down production rapidly to meet changes in demand, and also produce related goods for varied geographies, while broadband providers must pay (and charge) for most of their (oversubscribed) capacity to produce a single kind of immobile good even though most of it is unused for half of each day.
RSS runs over HTTP, so most ways of counting usage, updates, clickthroughs, etc. still apply. RSS aggregator sites can also do neat tricks to figure out demographics based on which feeds are read, which stories are clicked, search queries, cookies, etc.
That's almost begging the question. In a sufficient generic brain-simulating machine, we could probably run a human mind by specifying one obvious configuration parameter. But if we had a generic brain-simulating machine, we wouldn't be in need of a way to simulate brains.
Interestingly, one of Kurzweil's claims is that once any AI exists, the existence of all other AIs is implied, so "crude ad un-optimized" wouldn't matter.
You would be right to take issue with this line of thought.
Kurzweil's singularity hypothesis assumes that the phenomena under discussion may be adequately represented by static models. One could go a distance that way, but only a distance that helps us to identify the substrate. To say that transformations of DNA alone could produce a brain is about as insightful as to say that transformations of the PeopleSoft or vTiger or Facebook source code could somehow produce a business.
You are correct. My post was part of a coordinated propaganda campaign that began with an EO by President Nixon. Wikileaks was the elder Bush's idea, but SS7 couldn't get the Belorussians on board to to the technical implementation due to some internal connectivity issues. But if you believe any of that, you may have bigger issues.
My point: The hypothesis of a "very sophisticated domestic propaganda campaign" is non-falsifiable.
"[O]ur military is operating a very sophisticated domestic propaganda campaign against the American public" is an extraordinary and broad claim. "A few other big discussion websites have shown the same pattern" is not evidence to support that claim. As stated, that claim could not be supportable because its scope "a very sophisticated domestic propaganda campaign" includes all possible activities if such a campaign is successful. It is very similar to claims about omnipotent god(s) having great power in that there is no way to disprove the presence of "a very sophisticated campaign" or omnipotent god(s) since the (dis)proof itself could not be independently distinguished from a manifestation of that campaign or god(s) itself.
Is that the same military who, a couple months ago, couldn't keep their top general and his aides from criticizing POTUS and top WH officials in Rolling Stone?
Oh wait, you've defined the propaganda campaign so as to include everything that could ever happen in the US, so no disproof of your claim would be logically possible in your system.
To effectively review 90,000 documents would require several years of real time. Since there is no central oracle that knows why each document was classified, nor the context of the individuals named, someone close to the source of each document would have to be asked directly. Many such individuals are inaccessible, being deployed or dead, so a substantial portion of the documents would require investigating secondary sources. On top of that, there are very few individuals who would have the security clearances to review and investigate assorted classified documents from arbitrary files and who have the knowledge to understand their context.
Even if the logistics challenges could be overcome, the government would be criticized for taking too long to produce, and for redacting too much. Wikileaks had good reasons to know this, so their reaching out to the Pentagon could be interpreted as nothing more than a PR stunt to elicit sympathy from the uneducated general public.
They don't need to solve Afghanistan, but they could collaborate to address the issues of governance or accountability or transparency or whatever were thought to be illuminated by the leaks.
I would be grateful if you could provide a high level overview of what we're supposed to be outraged about here.
Folding Wikileaks would not be entirely a bad thing. If several competitors arise, we'd be able to get more than the four leaks a year Wikileaks has recently averaged, and the coverage would be larger than the war on the war on terror.
Leaks will continue after Wikileaks, as they have for centuries. The only thing new about Wikileaks was the wiki part to crowdsource analysis. They appear to have abandoned the wiki part of the mission, and also substantially on the leaks part, having released only a handful of times in the last two years.
The most disappointing part of this is that he doesn't know that he is being used by TPTB.
For around seven figures, commercial service providers in several bloc countries could keep this organization off the public Internet indefinitely, and/or deliver his vital organs in a baggie. For around seven ounces of paperwork, any government could remove his ability to board international flights.
Because of the diffuse nature and volume of the leaked materials, instead of admitting their own operational or intelligence failures any government operating with the U.S. *anywhere* gets unlimited free passes to blame the leak and WL. And the more he leaks, the more credible the excuses become.
> Do you think you'd be able to create a theme for it and release it and sell it and not have it be considered a derivative work?
All sorts of shareware themes have existed for Windows since before the Windows 3.1 era. Almost all of Quarterdeck's product line were TSR-like contraptions that would modify DOS (and some other programs) at runtime to give it multitasking, neat memory management tricks, antivirus, etc.
Whether such things were meaningfully "considered" by any particular party to be a derivative work is unclear, but none of the significantly better resourced parties tested it in court.
> But it's a pretty stupid developer who doesn't check the legal implications of developing on any given platform as far as licensing goes.
If understanding implications is as easy as you claim, please provide a concise enumeration of all possible technical and legal interactions between any two pieces of non-trivial software of your choice under any combination of your choice of open source license.
The default route of the PC is not the modem if there's a gateway/router between the two, hence this story.
If you've compromised the host PC enough to run code to get its network configuration, you don't need this hack to attack the router. Although there are plenty of tricks to determine a host's network configuration from the browser alone, a measure of safety is provided by the high cost for the attacker to obtain the low benefit of controlling a small handful of additional routers configured with non-default addresses.
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I've encountered the opposite problem.
In my experience, Firefox does a good job of representing screen and print intents with the Print Preview feature on the platforms and versions that have it (page layouts are correct for various image area sizes even when zoomed and resolution is only limited by the source raster elements). However, I'm not convinced that anyone at Mozilla knows enough about Postscript or PCL to reliably output for print in the traditional ways. On the other hand, since there's enough resource surplus on most consumer workstations to bit blit to printers or print servers by default anyway, bit bliting from Gecko's screen output to a printer is an option.
Since they know more about rendering engines than almost anyone else, and since precision of reproduction appears to remain an issue with OO.o and MSO, Mozilla could start by wrapping a basic word processor UI around their rendering engine and then add a presentations UI. (They could probably figure out something for a decent spreadsheet app based on their scripting experience, but I'm less confident about their ability to quickly grok the financial functions.) When those are good enough to be standalone, they could split them into their own thing, like Thunderbird.
Ask that again after you've tried to mail/data merge more than 5,000 records, position non-body-text elements with pixel precision, or correctly use a typefaces' j/k rules.
The considerably less resourced NeoOffice fork is much more competent, usable, and pretty for office work.
This discussion misses the social purpose and benefits of having fire departments in the first place.
If there's spare firefighting capacity from the neighboring urban municipality for them to be able to do contract work for a fee, then: a) fighting fires on non-subscribing properties does not impose a significant additional burden on the firefighters; b) the neighbouring municipality is allocating its public neighboring inefficiently; and/or c) the urban or rural municipality's taxpayers are subsidizing the other but some taxpayers are being denied access to public services on the basis of financial situation.
The rural municipality has failed to ensure that its residents' homes are protected; the risk to the neighboring subscribers' shows this. The rural municipality should either fund its own fire department, or compel its residents to subscribe to the urban municipality's fire services. The current policy has deprived the public far more good than if the subscription option were not available since it allows property values to be uncontrollably depressed and funds essential public services based on non-sustainable income.
What are some examples of policy changes brought about by the Obama administration that are directly attributable to social media?
Why do you assume the activity of /. is connected to journalism in the particular ways you imply?
Minecraft is Lego, except you never run out of pieces, and your feet don't hurt.
Unions have also claimed to attempt to secure equal pay for equal work, which remains an outstanding concern for particular genders and races. Since unions have not succeeded in closing such gaps over decades since the industrial safety problems were resolved, but instead have installed a seniority regime that systematically ignores workers' performance of their duties in determining wages and job security, we should be open to breaking the unions' monopoly on representing worker rights.
It's tempting to point out that that's a factor of three drop in price per performance unit over 10 years, while CPUs, consumer gadgets, and other high technology goods have fallen in price by factors of 10 or more. However, there's no reason to compare the perishable commodity of bandwidth provided through government subsidy, to the durable goods of CPUs, cameras, etc. provided without artificial production stimulus.
The cost of copper landlines in North America have not changed by more than a factor of 2 over the last 30 years, falling somewhere in the $10-30/month range. That's a feature of non-scale-free infrastructure with sunk costs, unlike bread or televisions where the cost to produce each unit doesn't vary much with the total number of units produced. Ten bread factories cost 10 ten times the cost of 1 bread factory to operate. Ten phone or broadband head-ends cost ten times the cost of one head end, plus a fancy Cisco box or two, plus a more expensive upstream SLA. Plus, bread and television factories can ramp up or down production rapidly to meet changes in demand, and also produce related goods for varied geographies, while broadband providers must pay (and charge) for most of their (oversubscribed) capacity to produce a single kind of immobile good even though most of it is unused for half of each day.
> I have no idea how one would track usage
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RSS runs over HTTP, so most ways of counting usage, updates, clickthroughs, etc. still apply. RSS aggregator sites can also do neat tricks to figure out demographics based on which feeds are read, which stories are clicked, search queries, cookies, etc.
That's almost begging the question. In a sufficient generic brain-simulating machine, we could probably run a human mind by specifying one obvious configuration parameter. But if we had a generic brain-simulating machine, we wouldn't be in need of a way to simulate brains.
Interestingly, one of Kurzweil's claims is that once any AI exists, the existence of all other AIs is implied, so "crude ad un-optimized" wouldn't matter.
You would be right to take issue with this line of thought.
Kurzweil's singularity hypothesis assumes that the phenomena under discussion may be adequately represented by static models. One could go a distance that way, but only a distance that helps us to identify the substrate. To say that transformations of DNA alone could produce a brain is about as insightful as to say that transformations of the PeopleSoft or vTiger or Facebook source code could somehow produce a business.
You are correct. My post was part of a coordinated propaganda campaign that began with an EO by President Nixon. Wikileaks was the elder Bush's idea, but SS7 couldn't get the Belorussians on board to to the technical implementation due to some internal connectivity issues. But if you believe any of that, you may have bigger issues.
My point: The hypothesis of a "very sophisticated domestic propaganda campaign" is non-falsifiable.
"[O]ur military is operating a very sophisticated domestic propaganda campaign against the American public" is an extraordinary and broad claim. "A few other big discussion websites have shown the same pattern" is not evidence to support that claim. As stated, that claim could not be supportable because its scope "a very sophisticated domestic propaganda campaign" includes all possible activities if such a campaign is successful. It is very similar to claims about omnipotent god(s) having great power in that there is no way to disprove the presence of "a very sophisticated campaign" or omnipotent god(s) since the (dis)proof itself could not be independently distinguished from a manifestation of that campaign or god(s) itself.
Is that the same military who, a couple months ago, couldn't keep their top general and his aides from criticizing POTUS and top WH officials in Rolling Stone?
Oh wait, you've defined the propaganda campaign so as to include everything that could ever happen in the US, so no disproof of your claim would be logically possible in your system.
To effectively review 90,000 documents would require several years of real time. Since there is no central oracle that knows why each document was classified, nor the context of the individuals named, someone close to the source of each document would have to be asked directly. Many such individuals are inaccessible, being deployed or dead, so a substantial portion of the documents would require investigating secondary sources. On top of that, there are very few individuals who would have the security clearances to review and investigate assorted classified documents from arbitrary files and who have the knowledge to understand their context.
Even if the logistics challenges could be overcome, the government would be criticized for taking too long to produce, and for redacting too much. Wikileaks had good reasons to know this, so their reaching out to the Pentagon could be interpreted as nothing more than a PR stunt to elicit sympathy from the uneducated general public.
What would be objectionable if they started to care about civilian safety now?
It seems that the purpose of leaking the documents was to motivate a policy change themed by increased respect for human life.
They don't need to solve Afghanistan, but they could collaborate to address the issues of governance or accountability or transparency or whatever were thought to be illuminated by the leaks.
I would be grateful if you could provide a high level overview of what we're supposed to be outraged about here.
the notion of "You want to help? Then help!" is pretty apt..
Indeed. What did Wikileaks do to try to change US policy on Afghanistan prior to leaking the documents to the public?
How often has Wikileaks attempted to solve the issues they leak about instead of just hoping that someone else will complain?
Folding Wikileaks would not be entirely a bad thing. If several competitors arise, we'd be able to get more than the four leaks a year Wikileaks has recently averaged, and the coverage would be larger than the war on the war on terror.
Leaks will continue after Wikileaks, as they have for centuries. The only thing new about Wikileaks was the wiki part to crowdsource analysis. They appear to have abandoned the wiki part of the mission, and also substantially on the leaks part, having released only a handful of times in the last two years.
The most disappointing part of this is that he doesn't know that he is being used by TPTB.
For around seven figures, commercial service providers in several bloc countries could keep this organization off the public Internet indefinitely, and/or deliver his vital organs in a baggie. For around seven ounces of paperwork, any government could remove his ability to board international flights.
Because of the diffuse nature and volume of the leaked materials, instead of admitting their own operational or intelligence failures any government operating with the U.S. *anywhere* gets unlimited free passes to blame the leak and WL. And the more he leaks, the more credible the excuses become.
Yes, my point exactly.
> Do you think you'd be able to create a theme for it and release it and sell it and not have it be considered a derivative work?
All sorts of shareware themes have existed for Windows since before the Windows 3.1 era. Almost all of Quarterdeck's product line were TSR-like contraptions that would modify DOS (and some other programs) at runtime to give it multitasking, neat memory management tricks, antivirus, etc.
Whether such things were meaningfully "considered" by any particular party to be a derivative work is unclear, but none of the significantly better resourced parties tested it in court.
> But it's a pretty stupid developer who doesn't check the legal implications of developing on any given platform as far as licensing goes.
If understanding implications is as easy as you claim, please provide a concise enumeration of all possible technical and legal interactions between any two pieces of non-trivial software of your choice under any combination of your choice of open source license.
The default route of the PC is not the modem if there's a gateway/router between the two, hence this story.
If you've compromised the host PC enough to run code to get its network configuration, you don't need this hack to attack the router. Although there are plenty of tricks to determine a host's network configuration from the browser alone, a measure of safety is provided by the high cost for the attacker to obtain the low benefit of controlling a small handful of additional routers configured with non-default addresses.