People don't want to be oppressed. Look at what happened to countries in the iron curtain. Their economy fell apart, people wanted civil rights, they protested and an oppressive government fell.
Uh, no, an oppressive government fell because said government horribly mismanaged their economy. Meanwhile, I don't expect to see China or India falling apart any time soon.
It all comes down to bread and circuses (and a little zealous nationalism/culturalism, coupled with a dash of xenophobia, always helps).
Chances are, once governments start looking at the scientific evidence, we will look at a number of substances and wonder what in the world we were thinking when we banned them.
HA HA HA HA! Oh god, that's good. Yeah, all it'll take is a little scientific evidence. *snicker* Good luck with that. I mean, it definitely had nothing to do with alcohol being *very* widely consumed, or that banning it resulted in organized crime like nothing we've seen in modern times, right? It was just the scientific evidence about alcohol that turned the tide...
No, I'm sorry, when it comes to drugs, homosexuality, and a number of other issues, social conservatives are winning the day, and until those views can be changed, the laws will remain just as they are, as when it comes right down to it, the US is a tyranny of the majority, where those of the moral majority get to dictate what everyone else can and can't do, bill of rights be damned.
Oh ffs, as a Canadian, seriously, shut the fuck up. a) That was the British, and b) who the fuck cares? Yes, that's right, no one. Meanwhile, you make the average Canadian look like a fucking moron with an inferiority complex (which, it seems, might actually be accurate, but the least you could do is keep it on the dl).
A person with a DUI is not allowed into Canada unless you get a waver. Yeah DUIs are not good things but to be denied access to a country based on that fact?
The US needs to fix a lot of things but Canada is not perfect either.
Wait, what? Keeping drunk drivers out of our country is the same as harvesting personal information of those simply overflying the US?
You might consider getting a little perspective.
And, as an aside, I personally think keeping convicted drunk drivers out of our country is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
'fraid not. The 32-bit time_t is signed (I'm assuming so you can expression times less than the epoch, but that's just a guess). As such, it actually overflows in 2038.
Oh, I already use xmonad (switched around 2-3 weeks ago and haven't looked back), but I'm so used to GNU Screen for terminal management that I just stick with it.
ROFL! If you think OmniComplete, even with ctags or cscope, is anywhere *near* as capable as the intelligent completion available in Eclipse, VisualStudio, or any other comparable IDE, you're either horribly ignorant, or lying to yourself. And the idea that it's *better*? That's beyond laughable. And I say that as a diehard Vim user.
Agreed, ViEmu makes Visual Studio *far* more pleasant to work with. You get all the advantages VS provides (IntelliSense, in particular), plus a fairly complete Vim emulation.
Funny, I don't find gvim provides any major advantages over regular vim. After all, I'm using vim... I've already chosen to use the keyboard for most things, so the improved mouse integration is basically useless. Meanwhile, I can embed vim in GNU Screen, which makes for a much more convenient environment, as you can spawn and switch between new terminals quickly and easily, right from the keyboard.
Umm vim supports plugins, and there is of course a GDB one.
Sorry, no. I absolutely adore Vim and use it as my primary editor, but when it comes to debugger integration, Vim sucks. Hard. Decent GDB integration with Vim requires patching Vim. Why? Because Vim has *terrible* support for multiplexing interaction between the user and external processes (well, unless you're willing to settle with gvim, in which case clewn can use the NetBeans interface). ie, Vim is simply not architected to properly handle the idea of managing an on-going, externally running application, instead only really supporting the idea of a command starting, then completing (:! works exactly that way).
No, if there's one thing I desperately miss from Emacs, it's the more solid approach to handling external processes (and the better extension language... vimscript works, but, ugh, who wants to learn a new, special extension language when so many perfectly find embeddable languages are available?). Which is why you'll never see, say, embedded shell support in Vim: It's just not designed to be able to do that sort of thing.
Oh please, enough with the pedantic word games. His statement was *clearly* an implication of causation, as is your rewording of it. If he didn't mean to imply causation, he should've phrased his statement differently.
Funny, exercise just makes me tired and sweaty and desirous of laying down (though, to be fair, a good morning bike ride before work does wonders for my energy level in the morning (though does little for the afternoon battle against involuntary nap time)).
How much more complex is it parsing ASCII than a PDF format?
*Vastly*. At it's core, PDF is compressed PostScript, and PostScript is a turing complete functional programming language. On top of that, you have complex font handling and embedding, the rendering core itself, image handling, etc, etc. That, in and of itself, makes for a pretty large surface area that could be exploited. 'course, for good or ill, Adobe then threw ECMAScript, PDF Forms, annotations, and a whole raft of other functionality on top of that.
What the hell are you talking about? I said NOTHING about vulnerabilities. Perhaps it is your prejudices that are showing.
Well, given the article is about *security vulnerabilities*, it stands to reason that when one is discussing viable replacements for Flash, one might be specifically referring to, you know, security vulnerabilities.
Your argument would make sense if Flash was a product in maintenance mode, where no new substantial development was being done, and only bug fixes and security enhancements were being applied. But, of course, that's not at all the case. New features, performance enhancements, and god knows what else, show up in every rev of Flash, and that means new potential security vulnerabilities.
Hell, by your argument, Firefox should be virtually bug free by now...
Don't be silly, buffer overflows can happen anywhere. Hell, IE has been compromised thanks to a b0rked JPEG decoder in GDI+, ffs.
That said, Adobe has certainly made their job harder by including a full-blown ECMAScript engine in acroread. But even without that, the ubiquity of Flash and Reader makes them ideal targets for hackers, thus further illustrating why software monoculture is a bad thing.
I don't know anything about PKD, but from the movie it's fair to assume people who aren't healthy don't become full members of the tribe. I found it an interesting concept. Which is better, a society that requires everyone to be productive, or a society (like ours) that encourages people to be unproductive (living on welfare, begging on the streets, living in their parents' basements until they're 35...). Neither is perfect. Our society has a tremendous surplus, so we can accommodate a lot of unproductive people.
Just so people know, PKD is a genetic disorder that doesn't really kick in until later in life, and when it does, basically destroys the kidneys given enough time. Anyone with the condition will eventually have to get a kidney transplant if they want to, you know, live and stuff.
Of course, this means that those with the condition spend their most productive years perfectly healthy. Which is probably why it still exists in the population (there's no evolutionary pressure for the condition to have been eliminated from the population, as it doesn't present a problem until after mate selection and reproduction has typically occurred).
Well, presumably the idea would be to add an ATA command which allows one to disable ECC on a drive on-the-fly. Or, at minimum, a hardware switch of some kind.
Incidentally, I happen to agree with you that DRM, in general, is awful. But the truth is, for the most part, DRM just isn't a workable technology. So as long as an option exists for me to strip away the DRM on the content I purchase, I'm largely indifferent. That said, until it was clear that the Kindle DRM was thoroughly hacked, I was largely in the "not for me" camp. But now, I'd definitely consider it (once the price comes down a bit on the device), just as I'm happy to purchase DVDs.
Well, fortunately, even if you don't own a Kindle, you now can just get the Kindle for PC copy of any book you like and pull the DRM off. And if you have a Kindle, you've been able to do the same for nearly as long as the Kindle's been out.
Ah, yes, I see, you seem to believe that the statement:
"It isn't the alcohol which gives you a headache. It's the alcohol in combination with the rest of the crap in the beverage."
Is more accurate than simply:
"It isn't the alcohol which gives you a headache."
Of course, it's not. Both are false, and for the exact same reason: They both imply that alcohol, alone, doesn't play a causative role in the production of hangovers, which is silly, given that it's the dehydration caused by alcohol which creates headaches, and the metabolites of alcohol which create many of the other symptoms.
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You most certainly can prove a negative, and scientists do so all the time.
Um, no, they don't.
Scientists never "prove" negative statements. They falsify (ie, provide counter-evidence for) positive statements.
People don't want to be oppressed. Look at what happened to countries in the iron curtain. Their economy fell apart, people wanted civil rights, they protested and an oppressive government fell.
Uh, no, an oppressive government fell because said government horribly mismanaged their economy. Meanwhile, I don't expect to see China or India falling apart any time soon.
It all comes down to bread and circuses (and a little zealous nationalism/culturalism, coupled with a dash of xenophobia, always helps).
Chances are, once governments start looking at the scientific evidence, we will look at a number of substances and wonder what in the world we were thinking when we banned them.
HA HA HA HA! Oh god, that's good. Yeah, all it'll take is a little scientific evidence. *snicker* Good luck with that. I mean, it definitely had nothing to do with alcohol being *very* widely consumed, or that banning it resulted in organized crime like nothing we've seen in modern times, right? It was just the scientific evidence about alcohol that turned the tide...
No, I'm sorry, when it comes to drugs, homosexuality, and a number of other issues, social conservatives are winning the day, and until those views can be changed, the laws will remain just as they are, as when it comes right down to it, the US is a tyranny of the majority, where those of the moral majority get to dictate what everyone else can and can't do, bill of rights be damned.
Oh ffs, as a Canadian, seriously, shut the fuck up. a) That was the British, and b) who the fuck cares? Yes, that's right, no one. Meanwhile, you make the average Canadian look like a fucking moron with an inferiority complex (which, it seems, might actually be accurate, but the least you could do is keep it on the dl).
A person with a DUI is not allowed into Canada unless you get a waver. Yeah DUIs are not good things but to be denied access to a country based on that fact?
The US needs to fix a lot of things but Canada is not perfect either.
Wait, what? Keeping drunk drivers out of our country is the same as harvesting personal information of those simply overflying the US?
You might consider getting a little perspective.
And, as an aside, I personally think keeping convicted drunk drivers out of our country is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
'fraid not. The 32-bit time_t is signed (I'm assuming so you can expression times less than the epoch, but that's just a guess). As such, it actually overflows in 2038.
Oh, I already use xmonad (switched around 2-3 weeks ago and haven't looked back), but I'm so used to GNU Screen for terminal management that I just stick with it.
ROFL! If you think OmniComplete, even with ctags or cscope, is anywhere *near* as capable as the intelligent completion available in Eclipse, VisualStudio, or any other comparable IDE, you're either horribly ignorant, or lying to yourself. And the idea that it's *better*? That's beyond laughable. And I say that as a diehard Vim user.
Agreed, ViEmu makes Visual Studio *far* more pleasant to work with. You get all the advantages VS provides (IntelliSense, in particular), plus a fairly complete Vim emulation.
Funny, I don't find gvim provides any major advantages over regular vim. After all, I'm using vim... I've already chosen to use the keyboard for most things, so the improved mouse integration is basically useless. Meanwhile, I can embed vim in GNU Screen, which makes for a much more convenient environment, as you can spawn and switch between new terminals quickly and easily, right from the keyboard.
Umm vim supports plugins, and there is of course a GDB one.
Sorry, no. I absolutely adore Vim and use it as my primary editor, but when it comes to debugger integration, Vim sucks. Hard. Decent GDB integration with Vim requires patching Vim. Why? Because Vim has *terrible* support for multiplexing interaction between the user and external processes (well, unless you're willing to settle with gvim, in which case clewn can use the NetBeans interface). ie, Vim is simply not architected to properly handle the idea of managing an on-going, externally running application, instead only really supporting the idea of a command starting, then completing (:! works exactly that way).
No, if there's one thing I desperately miss from Emacs, it's the more solid approach to handling external processes (and the better extension language... vimscript works, but, ugh, who wants to learn a new, special extension language when so many perfectly find embeddable languages are available?). Which is why you'll never see, say, embedded shell support in Vim: It's just not designed to be able to do that sort of thing.
Oh please, enough with the pedantic word games. His statement was *clearly* an implication of causation, as is your rewording of it. If he didn't mean to imply causation, he should've phrased his statement differently.
Yeah, if you're not fairly wiped after a fairly heavy cardio workout, you didn't really work out.
Funny, exercise just makes me tired and sweaty and desirous of laying down (though, to be fair, a good morning bike ride before work does wonders for my energy level in the morning (though does little for the afternoon battle against involuntary nap time)).
Well, that or you just assume that's the effect it will have on you, and so you behave accordingly.
But, hey, who am I to argue with a placebo effect that works for you?
How much more complex is it parsing ASCII than a PDF format?
*Vastly*. At it's core, PDF is compressed PostScript, and PostScript is a turing complete functional programming language. On top of that, you have complex font handling and embedding, the rendering core itself, image handling, etc, etc. That, in and of itself, makes for a pretty large surface area that could be exploited. 'course, for good or ill, Adobe then threw ECMAScript, PDF Forms, annotations, and a whole raft of other functionality on top of that.
Yeah, I'd agree, except using government muscle to come after people who mislead others is kind of a crappy thing to do.
Uhh, isn't that precisely what trademark law, and the enforcement thereof, exist to do?
What the hell are you talking about? I said NOTHING about vulnerabilities. Perhaps it is your prejudices that are showing.
Well, given the article is about *security vulnerabilities*, it stands to reason that when one is discussing viable replacements for Flash, one might be specifically referring to, you know, security vulnerabilities.
Wait, because, unlike Silverlight and Flash, Applets and Javascript are somehow magically free of vulnerabilities?
Careful, your prejudices are showing...
Your argument would make sense if Flash was a product in maintenance mode, where no new substantial development was being done, and only bug fixes and security enhancements were being applied. But, of course, that's not at all the case. New features, performance enhancements, and god knows what else, show up in every rev of Flash, and that means new potential security vulnerabilities.
Hell, by your argument, Firefox should be virtually bug free by now...
Don't be silly, buffer overflows can happen anywhere. Hell, IE has been compromised thanks to a b0rked JPEG decoder in GDI+, ffs.
That said, Adobe has certainly made their job harder by including a full-blown ECMAScript engine in acroread. But even without that, the ubiquity of Flash and Reader makes them ideal targets for hackers, thus further illustrating why software monoculture is a bad thing.
I don't know anything about PKD, but from the movie it's fair to assume people who aren't healthy don't become full members of the tribe. I found it an interesting concept. Which is better, a society that requires everyone to be productive, or a society (like ours) that encourages people to be unproductive (living on welfare, begging on the streets, living in their parents' basements until they're 35...). Neither is perfect. Our society has a tremendous surplus, so we can accommodate a lot of unproductive people.
Just so people know, PKD is a genetic disorder that doesn't really kick in until later in life, and when it does, basically destroys the kidneys given enough time. Anyone with the condition will eventually have to get a kidney transplant if they want to, you know, live and stuff.
Of course, this means that those with the condition spend their most productive years perfectly healthy. Which is probably why it still exists in the population (there's no evolutionary pressure for the condition to have been eliminated from the population, as it doesn't present a problem until after mate selection and reproduction has typically occurred).
Well, presumably the idea would be to add an ATA command which allows one to disable ECC on a drive on-the-fly. Or, at minimum, a hardware switch of some kind.
Seems that way, doesn't it... :)
Incidentally, I happen to agree with you that DRM, in general, is awful. But the truth is, for the most part, DRM just isn't a workable technology. So as long as an option exists for me to strip away the DRM on the content I purchase, I'm largely indifferent. That said, until it was clear that the Kindle DRM was thoroughly hacked, I was largely in the "not for me" camp. But now, I'd definitely consider it (once the price comes down a bit on the device), just as I'm happy to purchase DVDs.
Well, fortunately, even if you don't own a Kindle, you now can just get the Kindle for PC copy of any book you like and pull the DRM off. And if you have a Kindle, you've been able to do the same for nearly as long as the Kindle's been out.
Ah, yes, I see, you seem to believe that the statement:
"It isn't the alcohol which gives you a headache. It's the alcohol in combination with the rest of the crap in the beverage."
Is more accurate than simply:
"It isn't the alcohol which gives you a headache."
Of course, it's not. Both are false, and for the exact same reason: They both imply that alcohol, alone, doesn't play a causative role in the production of hangovers, which is silly, given that it's the dehydration caused by alcohol which creates headaches, and the metabolites of alcohol which create many of the other symptoms.