I also do not want foodstuffs to contain genetic information from such diverse organisms as bacteria, nor for goats to produce spider's silk.
Why? This exact technology has already saved millions of lives, thanks to mass production of insulin. You'd rather we forego such advances simply because they make you uncomfortable?
It's a shame, but people have to remember that there was nothing pristine or magical about the 2D format.
Uhh, the GP said nothing of the sort. He rightly pointed out that ignoring the 2D format entirely, as has happened in recent history, is silly, since you cut out an entire genre of games that don't convert well to 3D format (Tetris being an obvious example).
Pfft, I'd drop $4 without blinking... the time spent finding ISOs and burning them is worth more than that.
Speaking of dedicated, I bought my DC solely for hacking my own code (which I haven't done much recently, unfortunately). If you want to get into console programming, the DC is a great starting point (that or a GBA... which I also have, along with a flash cart... yes, I'm a console dev junky with no free time;).
Uhh... not to advocate piracy, but if you can't find the titles, you can always... err... acquire them and burn them to CDRs. That's the beauty of the Dreamcast.:)
I said no such thing. If you re-read my post, you'll see I made no judgement one way or another. I simply brought up that point that critics seem a little hypocritical when it comes to UI consistency. On the one hand, they criticize Linux (the mixture of KDE/Gnome/etc) and Java/Swing for being inconsistent, while at the same time lauding the efforts of Microsoft when they rev their UI.
On the one hand, people complain about how Swing "looks funny" on Windows. Meanwhile, every damn release of Office has Microsoft deviating further and further from their stock UI...
* Yell "fire" in a crowded theater. * Commit libel or slander * Say something that creates a "hostile work environment" for others
Well, every single one of these examples is a classic case of balancing the rights of individuals. It works like this: my rights are inviolate insofar as my actions do not violate *your* rights. Thus, in each case, the courts have determined that the rights of the harmed trump the rights of the speaker. So, yes, free speech is largely unfettered, as long as you aren't hurting someone else in the process.
I have no comment on your forth example, as I don't know enough about the details of the law.
This story makes me glad that, at our company, we use OddMuse. Yeah, it's got it's own set of warts and hacks, but it's fairly easy to understand, and extremely easy to modify and extend where necessarily.
Heck, I consciously switched *to* Vim from Emacs, after using the latter for *years*. Why? Primarily because RSI, particularly in my pinky finger and my mousing shoulder, has become a bit of a problem for me, and Vim allows me to do all things I can do in Emacs (and a few things I couldn't, or at least never learned how to do:) without the need to chord or move to the mouse all the time. 'course, the fact that Vim is lightening fast to start up, works great in GNU screen (which I use to migrate my shells between work and home), and is amenable to laptop keyboards (which have funky modifier key positions) and ssh sessions (which can sometimes mangle modifiers, like meta) is pretty nice, as well.:)
Yes, but another class of antibiotic will give us a recourse should a strain of VRSA be encountered. Not only does this save lives, it also makes it less likely that resistant strains can spread, since you can destroy them earlier.
Antibiotic resistant staph is definitely no joke. Once it gets into a hospital, it can be exceedingly difficult to eradicate, and spreads from patient to doctor to patient very easily. Heck, doctors themselves can transmit it from hospital to hospital if they work in multiple facilities. In my case, I had a close family friend who got in a serious motorcycle accident and, among other things, had to get pins placed in his spine. After the surgery, they discovered he had contracted staph, and it was probably brought in by the doctor who performed his surgery (this particular hospital hadn't had a case in a very long time, prior to this).
As a result, they weren't able to close the wound immediately, and in fact had to debride it a number of times. Eventually, they had to put him on vancomycin (once it was clear he had an antibiotic resistant strain), which is a very powerful antibiotic with a number of side-effects.
1) Take money from you at arbitrary rates and through arbitrary means (taxes). 2) Regulate your public and private right to speak. 3) Control your use of your own property without any contract being signed.
It's called an oligopoly. The telecoms are merging at an alarming rate. Moreover, they're colluding with the RIAA and MPAA. Once this process is complete, they will be able to do all those things, because they control the distribution channels. IOW, you want Internet access, you play by their rules, end-of-story. And you have *NO RECOURSE*.
4) Allow you to be detained in secret prisons and tried in secret courts outside of the US Constitution. 5) Allow their agents (law enforcement) to spy on you, record everything you do online or say over the phone, kick your door in on flimsy evidence and do all of the following carrying military-grade armaments that you have to have permission from them (machine gun license) to own. 6) Draft you from your home, ripping you away from your spouse and children who might be materially dependent on you to send you off to fight against someone who you might not even consider your enemy. 7) Regulate everything from the chemicals you put in your body to the type of music you can lawfully make or sell. 8) Make you subject to all manner of liability in how you conduct your business, allowing your life's work to be ripped from you by a single, pissed off employee whose only harm may be hurt feelings.
Every single one of these, however, is a) a non-sequitor that doesn't actually address the point of the GP, and b) the paranoid rantings of someone who's read Atlas Shrugged a few too many times. But, I will repeat the GP's point: if these things really are a problem (and you tell me, it's your country), it's your government, you *can* do something about it: elect a different person to office. The same can't be said for a corporation.
f the cable companies would get their shit together and make ALL cable TV on-demand, each subscriber would be getting a single channel (or let's say 3, with DVR dual and tripple tuners all taping something) instead of 350.
That's being done as we speak. It's called Switched Digital. And it's a terrible idea. The plan is that the bandwidth for a given channel doesn't get allocated until a person tunes to it, at which point some magic happens in the headend, the channel is associated with a frequency and pid, added to the netmap, and voila, the DSTB tunes.
The problem with any of these schemes is that, if you're really interested in freeing bandwidth up, then what you're implicitely saying is that you don't have enough bandwidth to both broadcast all your channels and provide all the other services you want to provide. Thus, with something like SD, there's a very real possibility that someone could attempt to tune to a channel and be unable to receive it, because there's no bandwidth available (since the network has been overallocated).
The only other alternative is to go the Verizon route and simply install fatter pipes right to the home (in this case, fibre), which is, IMHO, a superior solution, though far more expensive, since it requires major infrastructural changes.
you could read the rationale of the publisher and many of his autors who offer free e-book to boost the selling of other e-book/books of the same author.
Frankly, I think a lot of authors are afraid because it can also work the other way. I decided on a whim to... ahh... acquire an ebook version of The Da Vinci Code, and I'm damned glad I did, because it was barely worth the time to download. But on the bright side, I now know to avoid Dan Brown.
That means reading any format I throw at it, including LIT, Palm, RTF, HTML, anything.
Tell me you're at least using Palm Fiction (and don't balk at the Russian-language site... the English version works fine:). It certainly reads Palm, RTF, and HTML (though not sure how well it does the latter), as well as Word97, plain text, and some other formats, and has more features than I could ever want in an e-book reader. It's a *fantastic* application!
Yeah, I couldn't agree more on this front. The Smalltalk community really dropped the ball in creating an actually useful Smalltalk distribution that didn't force you to use the silly "image" model.
But, my point was really that, at a *language*-level, Ruby offers very little that's new or innovative (which contradicts what the original poster was suggesting). OTOH, I suppose I should be happy that there's at least one very Smalltalk-like mainstream language now available.:)
Sorry to contradict, but you are incorrect. Extensions can be written in any any language that supports XPCOM bindings, and many are not portable across platforms.
Then I shall amend my statement for both you and the other poster. The vast *vast* majority of extensions are written in Javascript, with a few exceptions.
It just needs to maintain references to unused objects or create cyclic references.
Certainly, but I don't believe most extension leaks are caused by such things, as they're rather difficult to trigger in practice. As far as I'm aware, most leaks caused by extensions are due to interactions with the XPCOM layer.
And now to reply to myself, the other possibility, as outlined in the Leak Monitor page, is that the Javascript code passes objects into the XPCOM layer which are not automatically released by the native code, thus creating a leak (since the Javascript object can't be garbage collected).
And that would be wrong (otherwise extensions wouldn't be portable across platforms). All extensions are written in pure Javascript/XUL. The real nasty bit is that the Javascript can (and usually does) call back into the runtime using XPCOM, and as a result, the Javascript can generate memory leaks by allocating resources and not freeing them.
It draws the best from the OO world of Smalltalk, while also offering very solid functional features.
Uhh, dude... that is Smalltalk. Smalltalk was specifically designed to meld OO development methodologies with the power of functional languages like LISP. Why do you think that blocks and functions are first class objects in Smalltalk? Or that it has proper lexical closures?
In fact, every time I look at Ruby, all I see is a pale reflection of Smalltalk. I've yet to see anything new it brings to the table.
Actually, I think the vast majority of developers out there are far more interested in getting their damn job done, and couldn't care less if Sun GPL'd the Java sources. 'course, you'll never hear that because they're too busy *getting their damn job done*, instead of bitching about licenses on Slashdot.
Bah, that has nothing to do with the effects of radiation itself and everything to do with the effects of disrupting the body's circadian rhythm. They're completely different issues, and conflating them helps no one.
Not just to me, but to a million years of evolution behind their particular DNA strand.
'course, if it was all about DNA, it would be perfectly fine for you to kill individuals who threaten your ability to procreate. Lucky us, though, we developed higher brain functions, which allow us to overcome those urges. For example, it gives us the capacity to realize that overpopulation of this planet is a major problem, and as such, blind procreation in order to continue ones bloodline isn't necessarily a good thing.
But, hey, who am I to suggest that reproduction shouldn't be the end-all and be-all of one's life...
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I also do not want foodstuffs to contain genetic information from such diverse organisms as bacteria, nor for goats to produce spider's silk.
Why? This exact technology has already saved millions of lives, thanks to mass production of insulin. You'd rather we forego such advances simply because they make you uncomfortable?
It's a shame, but people have to remember that there was nothing pristine or magical about the 2D format.
Uhh, the GP said nothing of the sort. He rightly pointed out that ignoring the 2D format entirely, as has happened in recent history, is silly, since you cut out an entire genre of games that don't convert well to 3D format (Tetris being an obvious example).
Pfft, I'd drop $4 without blinking... the time spent finding ISOs and burning them is worth more than that.
;).
Speaking of dedicated, I bought my DC solely for hacking my own code (which I haven't done much recently, unfortunately). If you want to get into console programming, the DC is a great starting point (that or a GBA... which I also have, along with a flash cart... yes, I'm a console dev junky with no free time
Uhh... not to advocate piracy, but if you can't find the titles, you can always... err... acquire them and burn them to CDRs. That's the beauty of the Dreamcast. :)
I said no such thing. If you re-read my post, you'll see I made no judgement one way or another. I simply brought up that point that critics seem a little hypocritical when it comes to UI consistency. On the one hand, they criticize Linux (the mixture of KDE/Gnome/etc) and Java/Swing for being inconsistent, while at the same time lauding the efforts of Microsoft when they rev their UI.
On the one hand, people complain about how Swing "looks funny" on Windows. Meanwhile, every damn release of Office has Microsoft deviating further and further from their stock UI...
* Yell "fire" in a crowded theater.
* Commit libel or slander
* Say something that creates a "hostile work environment" for others
Well, every single one of these examples is a classic case of balancing the rights of individuals. It works like this: my rights are inviolate insofar as my actions do not violate *your* rights. Thus, in each case, the courts have determined that the rights of the harmed trump the rights of the speaker. So, yes, free speech is largely unfettered, as long as you aren't hurting someone else in the process.
I have no comment on your forth example, as I don't know enough about the details of the law.
This story makes me glad that, at our company, we use OddMuse. Yeah, it's got it's own set of warts and hacks, but it's fairly easy to understand, and extremely easy to modify and extend where necessarily.
Heck, I consciously switched *to* Vim from Emacs, after using the latter for *years*. Why? Primarily because RSI, particularly in my pinky finger and my mousing shoulder, has become a bit of a problem for me, and Vim allows me to do all things I can do in Emacs (and a few things I couldn't, or at least never learned how to do :) without the need to chord or move to the mouse all the time. 'course, the fact that Vim is lightening fast to start up, works great in GNU screen (which I use to migrate my shells between work and home), and is amenable to laptop keyboards (which have funky modifier key positions) and ssh sessions (which can sometimes mangle modifiers, like meta) is pretty nice, as well. :)
Yes, but another class of antibiotic will give us a recourse should a strain of VRSA be encountered. Not only does this save lives, it also makes it less likely that resistant strains can spread, since you can destroy them earlier.
Antibiotic resistant staph is definitely no joke. Once it gets into a hospital, it can be exceedingly difficult to eradicate, and spreads from patient to doctor to patient very easily. Heck, doctors themselves can transmit it from hospital to hospital if they work in multiple facilities. In my case, I had a close family friend who got in a serious motorcycle accident and, among other things, had to get pins placed in his spine. After the surgery, they discovered he had contracted staph, and it was probably brought in by the doctor who performed his surgery (this particular hospital hadn't had a case in a very long time, prior to this).
As a result, they weren't able to close the wound immediately, and in fact had to debride it a number of times. Eventually, they had to put him on vancomycin (once it was clear he had an antibiotic resistant strain), which is a very powerful antibiotic with a number of side-effects.
Poor silly randians...
1) Take money from you at arbitrary rates and through arbitrary means (taxes).
2) Regulate your public and private right to speak.
3) Control your use of your own property without any contract being signed.
It's called an oligopoly. The telecoms are merging at an alarming rate. Moreover, they're colluding with the RIAA and MPAA. Once this process is complete, they will be able to do all those things, because they control the distribution channels. IOW, you want Internet access, you play by their rules, end-of-story. And you have *NO RECOURSE*.
4) Allow you to be detained in secret prisons and tried in secret courts outside of the US Constitution.
5) Allow their agents (law enforcement) to spy on you, record everything you do online or say over the phone, kick your door in on flimsy evidence and do all of the following carrying military-grade armaments that you have to have permission from them (machine gun license) to own.
6) Draft you from your home, ripping you away from your spouse and children who might be materially dependent on you to send you off to fight against someone who you might not even consider your enemy.
7) Regulate everything from the chemicals you put in your body to the type of music you can lawfully make or sell.
8) Make you subject to all manner of liability in how you conduct your business, allowing your life's work to be ripped from you by a single, pissed off employee whose only harm may be hurt feelings.
Every single one of these, however, is a) a non-sequitor that doesn't actually address the point of the GP, and b) the paranoid rantings of someone who's read Atlas Shrugged a few too many times. But, I will repeat the GP's point: if these things really are a problem (and you tell me, it's your country), it's your government, you *can* do something about it: elect a different person to office. The same can't be said for a corporation.
How do you determine exactly when a fetus has life?
The exact same way we determine when a human is dead. Brain activity.
f the cable companies would get their shit together and make ALL cable TV on-demand, each subscriber would be getting a single channel (or let's say 3, with DVR dual and tripple tuners all taping something) instead of 350.
That's being done as we speak. It's called Switched Digital. And it's a terrible idea. The plan is that the bandwidth for a given channel doesn't get allocated until a person tunes to it, at which point some magic happens in the headend, the channel is associated with a frequency and pid, added to the netmap, and voila, the DSTB tunes.
The problem with any of these schemes is that, if you're really interested in freeing bandwidth up, then what you're implicitely saying is that you don't have enough bandwidth to both broadcast all your channels and provide all the other services you want to provide. Thus, with something like SD, there's a very real possibility that someone could attempt to tune to a channel and be unable to receive it, because there's no bandwidth available (since the network has been overallocated).
The only other alternative is to go the Verizon route and simply install fatter pipes right to the home (in this case, fibre), which is, IMHO, a superior solution, though far more expensive, since it requires major infrastructural changes.
Does 'Palm Fiction' do screen rotation?
:)
It does. That's actually one of the main features I wanted in an ereader, and PF was the only one I could find that could do it.
And what're the minimum reqs?
Hmm... according to the Palm Freeware page on PF, it requires OS 3.5 or greater, but that's about it.
Personally, I use it on my TX, but that's not exactly an entry-level Palm.
you could read the rationale of the publisher and many of his autors who offer free e-book to boost the selling of other e-book/books of the same author.
Frankly, I think a lot of authors are afraid because it can also work the other way. I decided on a whim to... ahh... acquire an ebook version of The Da Vinci Code, and I'm damned glad I did, because it was barely worth the time to download. But on the bright side, I now know to avoid Dan Brown.
That means reading any format I throw at it, including LIT, Palm, RTF, HTML, anything.
:). It certainly reads Palm, RTF, and HTML (though not sure how well it does the latter), as well as Word97, plain text, and some other formats, and has more features than I could ever want in an e-book reader. It's a *fantastic* application!
Tell me you're at least using Palm Fiction (and don't balk at the Russian-language site... the English version works fine
Deliverable packaging.
:)
Yeah, I couldn't agree more on this front. The Smalltalk community really dropped the ball in creating an actually useful Smalltalk distribution that didn't force you to use the silly "image" model.
But, my point was really that, at a *language*-level, Ruby offers very little that's new or innovative (which contradicts what the original poster was suggesting). OTOH, I suppose I should be happy that there's at least one very Smalltalk-like mainstream language now available.
Sorry to contradict, but you are incorrect. Extensions can be written in any any language that supports XPCOM bindings, and many are not portable across platforms.
Then I shall amend my statement for both you and the other poster. The vast *vast* majority of extensions are written in Javascript, with a few exceptions.
It just needs to maintain references to unused objects or create cyclic references.
Certainly, but I don't believe most extension leaks are caused by such things, as they're rather difficult to trigger in practice. As far as I'm aware, most leaks caused by extensions are due to interactions with the XPCOM layer.
And now to reply to myself, the other possibility, as outlined in the Leak Monitor page, is that the Javascript code passes objects into the XPCOM layer which are not automatically released by the native code, thus creating a leak (since the Javascript object can't be garbage collected).
And that would be wrong (otherwise extensions wouldn't be portable across platforms). All extensions are written in pure Javascript/XUL. The real nasty bit is that the Javascript can (and usually does) call back into the runtime using XPCOM, and as a result, the Javascript can generate memory leaks by allocating resources and not freeing them.
It draws the best from the OO world of Smalltalk, while also offering very solid functional features.
Uhh, dude... that is Smalltalk. Smalltalk was specifically designed to meld OO development methodologies with the power of functional languages like LISP. Why do you think that blocks and functions are first class objects in Smalltalk? Or that it has proper lexical closures?
In fact, every time I look at Ruby, all I see is a pale reflection of Smalltalk. I've yet to see anything new it brings to the table.
Actually, I think the vast majority of developers out there are far more interested in getting their damn job done, and couldn't care less if Sun GPL'd the Java sources. 'course, you'll never hear that because they're too busy *getting their damn job done*, instead of bitching about licenses on Slashdot.
Bah, that has nothing to do with the effects of radiation itself and everything to do with the effects of disrupting the body's circadian rhythm. They're completely different issues, and conflating them helps no one.
Not just to me, but to a million years of evolution behind their particular DNA strand.
'course, if it was all about DNA, it would be perfectly fine for you to kill individuals who threaten your ability to procreate. Lucky us, though, we developed higher brain functions, which allow us to overcome those urges. For example, it gives us the capacity to realize that overpopulation of this planet is a major problem, and as such, blind procreation in order to continue ones bloodline isn't necessarily a good thing.
But, hey, who am I to suggest that reproduction shouldn't be the end-all and be-all of one's life...