"Steady Red -- A steady red light means “stop.” Do not go until the light turns green. You may make a right turn on a red light only after coming to a complete stop, then yielding to pedestrians or other vehicles in your path. You may not turn on red if a NO TURN ON RED sign is posted."
"Steady Yellow -- A steady yellow light means the traffic signal is changing from green to red. You must stop if it is safe to do so. If you are already stopped at an intersection or a stop line, you may not proceed."
"Steady Green -- A steady green light means “go,” but only after you have yielded to other vehicles, bicycles, or pedestrians in the road. If you are crossing an intersection, make sure you have enough room to make it completely through. Never block an intersection. You may make a turn as long as you have enough space to complete the turn and avoid creating a hazard. Look out for drivers who are not obeying traffic signals or are racing through intersections."
In case you missed them, let me pull out two important sentences: "Never block an intersection." And: "You must stop [on yellow] if it is safe to do so." Pulling into the middle of an intersection and stopping is "blocking an intersection". Turning left on a yellow is running a yellow light. I live, work, and walk in Boston, and I wish to fuck that Boston and would implement a "$100 and 2 Points" rule for these violations like New York City so people like you would stop nearly killing me every damn day.
At least as it was explained to me at the community college I attended in highschool, some kinds of grants and financial aid (quite likely including the sort I was provided to go there) require the student to attend a certain number of classes per term. So, pretty much every class took attendance, even if the prof didn't care.
Um, all of them? That's how it was supposed to work, you know, when we put together The Law (that'd be the Constitution): The federal government gets a small, well-defined set of powers, and the states decide everything else individually. In practice, however, the Feds use the interstate commerce clause to lord over anything and everything you might toss over a border.
> It is not the sort of thing that you require intense training to appreciate
In fact, your taste in music is based in very large part on the societal training you get as a child and young adult. Favors to rhythms, tonal quality, distance between the frequency of notes - all of that is determined by what you're exposed to during your life.
And as a counter example: I love baroque era music, but romantic era music makes me ill. It isn't that there are absolute reasons why baroque music is pleasing or romantic music is abhorrent - it's just a quirk of my musical upbringing.
It's previously been found by the supreme court that, when you're acting on behalf of a law enforcement agent, you need to follow the rules that law enforcement agents do. Moreover, a law enforcement agent cannot ask you to do things that they would be legally unable to do. However, in general, civilians are given significantly more latitude than law enforcement, so it's entirely possible that, regardless of infraGard edge-cases, a _non-member_ of infraGard could decide to provide the FBI with records without the FBI asking (or getting a warrant), but IANAL.
It's also worth remembering that the "red states" have been pretty evenly split the last three (presidential) elections, with republicans eaking out ahead of demacrats (as I recall, the reverse could be said about "blue states").
> If you like vi then I'd have to ask for you to just sit quitely in the back. To each his own and this conversation is for the GUI lovers:)
I love vi. It starts quickly, quits quickly, and is responsive during use, even while editing a file several megabytes in size. I do diff and svn merges with Vim's diff mode. My shell at home is setup to use vi emulation mode. My Visual Studio setup at work has a keypress to open the current file in GVim.
I agree with you.
I would go further however. GUIs should, if at all possible, be designed by usability experts and be guided by both user trials and user feedback. Those of us who make the machines go have no business deciding how people should interact with them. Seriously.
I don't know about Richard Dawkins, but I personally don't think it is right or reasonable to kill _anything_ that has a brain. A brain allows a creature motivation, preference, and desire beyond the simple organization and replication of their DNA.
Is that still arbitrary? I suppose, but I can't bring myself to feel bad about it.
Back when I was an atheist, I did not consider that the universe is necessarily rational top-to-bottom. In fact, the lack of theistic belief does not rule out the "supernatural". Atheism does rule out a centrally directed supernatural, but there's no reason an atheist couldn't consider ghosts or karma or reincarnation a possibility.
Finally, using a continuing example throughout the book might be nice for readers, to give them a continuing context, but it greatly increases the risk of a lot of rework on your part if you change your mind about something halfway through writing.
Oh, dear god, I hate that. As a reader of technical books, there's nothing more frustrating than turning to the section I need only to discover that I have to understand the example threaded throughout the preceding ten chapters to begin to understand the topic material. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't often read a technical book begining to end. I might just pick out the good parts (ie. the stuff I don't know already), or maybe I read the book over a few months or even a year.
To the authors of all the awesome books I've read, I'm sorry, but I just don't have the time or need to read your book (no matter how awesome) from cover to cover. Please, please, use small, pointed examples that expose the topic at hand.
Maybe I'm in the minority on this, but I really don't want to understand somebody else's project just to learn the framework or language or whatever that I want to apply to my own.
I don't know about Canada, but I'm a Verizon customer in the States, and for quite a while had text messaging entirely disabled (in both directions). These days I have media messaging disabled (my phone doesn't support it, and Verizon's web interface for receiving them is... deplorable) but do get plain text messages.
Small, technically irrelevant sample, but there it is;)
To be fair, monads aren't a straight-up philosophic idea, but arise from group and category theory. Granted, category theory is about as close to philosophical as a mathematicion is going to get, but philosophers don't generally use quite so much notation. (monads being denoted something like T(t,eta,mu) in theory)
Brotha', then all our opinions are irrelevent. Everyone who uses the internet will be directly affected, both monetarilly and personally, by the presence or abscence of net-neutrality. To say that someone with an interest in the outcome of the debate cannot have a valid, arguable opinion implies that no one who is affected by the outcome can way in. And frankly, given that the passage of the Net-Neutrality bill will directly affect me, you're fuckin' right I'm going to have an opinion.
he didn't mean the file manager, he meant the file chooser (though, "file browser" is a bit ambiguous).
the file chooser that Firefox uses is _really_ irritating. though, too be fair to Gnome, Firefox adds an extra layer of stupid by way of the inital "quick directory" selection dialog that you have to click out of (via the "browse for directories" button thing) to get the real file chooser.
attribution is intentionally left out of the GPL. in fact, the FSF's beef with the BSD license was the "advertising clause" - the attribution requirement.
the idea is this: on any given free software project, there may be work included from hundreds of authors. each of those hundreds of pieces has its own copyright controlled by a different person (the original author of that piece of the code). if the GPL required attribution (as the BSD license used to), a project would need to keep track of every contributor - every single one - in perpetuity.
for most projects, that's fine. most projects only have a handful of authors over their lifespan. but the kernel, for instance, probably has (copyrighted) contributions from thousands of people. were attribution required, a list of all of those thousands of people would need to accompany every binary and source copy of the kernel.
the FSF considers this a problem that is, in the general case, intractable, and attribution therefore impractical (and therefore a hinderance to modification and redistribution).
there may be other reasons, obviously, but that's the one I remember.
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but poorly edited. All of the points you make are based on editing mistakes, not writing mistakes per se.
Given that the review was largely an outline of the topics covered in the book, it could stand some rewriting too, but try for some more positive sounding feedback and correct use of English all `round, eh?:)
Interestingly, in Canada, they have provisions for this.
In Canada the legal age of (sexual) consent is 14. The minimum age for those appearing in pornography is 18. _However_, it is perfectly okay for a person to possess pornography containing persons younger than 18 _IF_ everyone in the porn is over 14 _and_ the owner appears in the imagery.
Therefore, a person _can_ take pictures of themself in sexual situations (even with others) so long as they are older than age of consent. This still precludes have pictures of just your 14-17 year old girlfriend, I assume.
((likely) highly inaccurrate legal documentation can be found on everything)
Personally, I've never heard of the book, nor the author. I should qualify that by explaining that I'm 19 and entering my 3rd year of college. I also went to a public highschool, which seems to explain a lot of my litarary inadequicies. So, while I lack any sort of income at the moment, I'll probably pick it up if I see it.
In my day, you played on 28.8 modem, and didn't _mind_ the lag because you were only watching 17fps anyway! (you also only joined games with less than a 300ms ping time, but lots of people didn't get that)
And yes, Quake3 aside, you can own servers that way:)
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pardon me for not actually running a server, but linux supports (I believe) reasonably large number of processors (>32 IIRC) and arbitrarily large amounts of memory. Granted, I have no experience using these extensions (my system is a work station), but they _are_ there, and they at least injure me none (as there is no requirement that I use them). but that is that.
somebody else mentioned this, but i couldn't refind the original post to reply to, so here goes:
So, yeah, you've got this [not-so-]spiffy data disk that oxidizes (or whatever) over time. Cool, yeah, all we have to do is cover that data with some other material and it won't degrade. faboo can forsee two major issues with that.
First, what you cover the disk with would have to have an index of refraction that is reasonable close to that of air (given how far away the laser is from the disk). You can coat the disk with anything you want to preserve the impression on the disk - the _important_ part is maintaining similar reflective properties of the disk. Certainly, this is possible, particularly with the error correcting properties of DVD players, but it's still a reasonable hurdle, I would think.
Also, how are you going to apply that sort of thing? A spray can would likely yield clumps of the material at differing heights, no matter how careful you were. You certainly couldn't use a sticker (are bubbles, and just about any plastic wouldn't have the right physical properties, not to mention the adhesive). You _might_ be able to get a way with some kind of DVD shaped applicator (like for CDR labels), but you'd still probably get some clumping.
It just seems highly unreasonable to me.
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People were begging to develop for the iPhone well before Apple even thought providing an SDK might be a good idea.
The lack of an SDK is unlikely to be the issue. The possibility that Metro won't last even a couple of years as a supported framework might though.
Quoting from the Massachusetts Driver's Manual, chapter 4 (which you may find here: http://www.mass.gov/rmv/dmanual/chapter4.pdf):
"Steady Red -- A steady red light means “stop.” Do not go until the light turns green. You may make a right turn on a red light only after coming to a complete stop, then yielding to pedestrians or other vehicles in your path. You may not turn on red if a NO TURN ON RED sign is posted."
"Steady Yellow -- A steady yellow light means the traffic signal is changing from green to red. You must stop if it is safe to do so. If you are already stopped at an intersection or a stop line, you may not proceed."
"Steady Green -- A steady green light means “go,” but only after you have yielded to other vehicles, bicycles, or pedestrians in the road. If you are crossing an intersection, make sure you have enough room to make it completely through. Never block an intersection. You may make a turn as long as you have enough space to complete the turn and avoid creating a hazard. Look out for drivers who are not obeying traffic signals or are racing through intersections."
In case you missed them, let me pull out two important sentences: "Never block an intersection." And: "You must stop [on yellow] if it is safe to do so." Pulling into the middle of an intersection and stopping is "blocking an intersection". Turning left on a yellow is running a yellow light. I live, work, and walk in Boston, and I wish to fuck that Boston and would implement a "$100 and 2 Points" rule for these violations like New York City so people like you would stop nearly killing me every damn day.
At least as it was explained to me at the community college I attended in highschool, some kinds of grants and financial aid (quite likely including the sort I was provided to go there) require the student to attend a certain number of classes per term. So, pretty much every class took attendance, even if the prof didn't care.
Um, all of them? That's how it was supposed to work, you know, when we put together The Law (that'd be the Constitution): The federal government gets a small, well-defined set of powers, and the states decide everything else individually. In practice, however, the Feds use the interstate commerce clause to lord over anything and everything you might toss over a border.
Stones!
Little ones.
> It is not the sort of thing that you require intense training to appreciate
In fact, your taste in music is based in very large part on the societal training you get as a child and young adult. Favors to rhythms, tonal quality, distance between the frequency of notes - all of that is determined by what you're exposed to during your life.
And as a counter example: I love baroque era music, but romantic era music makes me ill. It isn't that there are absolute reasons why baroque music is pleasing or romantic music is abhorrent - it's just a quirk of my musical upbringing.
It's previously been found by the supreme court that, when you're acting on behalf of a law enforcement agent, you need to follow the rules that law enforcement agents do. Moreover, a law enforcement agent cannot ask you to do things that they would be legally unable to do. However, in general, civilians are given significantly more latitude than law enforcement, so it's entirely possible that, regardless of infraGard edge-cases, a _non-member_ of infraGard could decide to provide the FBI with records without the FBI asking (or getting a warrant), but IANAL.
It's also worth remembering that the "red states" have been pretty evenly split the last three (presidential) elections, with republicans eaking out ahead of demacrats (as I recall, the reverse could be said about "blue states").
> If you like vi then I'd have to ask for you to just sit quitely in the back. To each his own and this conversation is for the GUI lovers :)
I love vi. It starts quickly, quits quickly, and is responsive during use, even while editing a file several megabytes in size. I do diff and svn merges with Vim's diff mode. My shell at home is setup to use vi emulation mode. My Visual Studio setup at work has a keypress to open the current file in GVim.
I agree with you.
I would go further however. GUIs should, if at all possible, be designed by usability experts and be guided by both user trials and user feedback. Those of us who make the machines go have no business deciding how people should interact with them. Seriously.
Dear god I loved discrete math classes. My university didn't have nearly enough of them.
I don't know about Richard Dawkins, but I personally don't think it is right or reasonable to kill _anything_ that has a brain. A brain allows a creature motivation, preference, and desire beyond the simple organization and replication of their DNA.
Is that still arbitrary? I suppose, but I can't bring myself to feel bad about it.
Back when I was an atheist, I did not consider that the universe is necessarily rational top-to-bottom. In fact, the lack of theistic belief does not rule out the "supernatural". Atheism does rule out a centrally directed supernatural, but there's no reason an atheist couldn't consider ghosts or karma or reincarnation a possibility.
Oh, dear god, I hate that. As a reader of technical books, there's nothing more frustrating than turning to the section I need only to discover that I have to understand the example threaded throughout the preceding ten chapters to begin to understand the topic material. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't often read a technical book begining to end. I might just pick out the good parts (ie. the stuff I don't know already), or maybe I read the book over a few months or even a year.
To the authors of all the awesome books I've read, I'm sorry, but I just don't have the time or need to read your book (no matter how awesome) from cover to cover. Please, please, use small, pointed examples that expose the topic at hand.
Maybe I'm in the minority on this, but I really don't want to understand somebody else's project just to learn the framework or language or whatever that I want to apply to my own.
I don't know about Canada, but I'm a Verizon customer in the States, and for quite a while had text messaging entirely disabled (in both directions). These days I have media messaging disabled (my phone doesn't support it, and Verizon's web interface for receiving them is... deplorable) but do get plain text messages.
Small, technically irrelevant sample, but there it is ;)
To be fair, monads aren't a straight-up philosophic idea, but arise from group and category theory. Granted, category theory is about as close to philosophical as a mathematicion is going to get, but philosophers don't generally use quite so much notation. (monads being denoted something like T(t,eta,mu) in theory)
Brotha', then all our opinions are irrelevent. Everyone who uses the internet will be directly affected, both monetarilly and personally, by the presence or abscence of net-neutrality. To say that someone with an interest in the outcome of the debate cannot have a valid, arguable opinion implies that no one who is affected by the outcome can way in. And frankly, given that the passage of the Net-Neutrality bill will directly affect me, you're fuckin' right I'm going to have an opinion.
he didn't mean the file manager, he meant the file chooser (though, "file browser" is a bit ambiguous).
the file chooser that Firefox uses is _really_ irritating. though, too be fair to Gnome, Firefox adds an extra layer of stupid by way of the inital "quick directory" selection dialog that you have to click out of (via the "browse for directories" button thing) to get the real file chooser.
attribution is intentionally left out of the GPL. in fact, the FSF's beef with the BSD license was the "advertising clause" - the attribution requirement.
the idea is this: on any given free software project, there may be work included from hundreds of authors. each of those hundreds of pieces has its own copyright controlled by a different person (the original author of that piece of the code). if the GPL required attribution (as the BSD license used to), a project would need to keep track of every contributor - every single one - in perpetuity.
for most projects, that's fine. most projects only have a handful of authors over their lifespan. but the kernel, for instance, probably has (copyrighted) contributions from thousands of people. were attribution required, a list of all of those thousands of people would need to accompany every binary and source copy of the kernel.
the FSF considers this a problem that is, in the general case, intractable, and attribution therefore impractical (and therefore a hinderance to modification and redistribution).
there may be other reasons, obviously, but that's the one I remember.
but poorly edited. All of the points you make are based on editing mistakes, not writing mistakes per se.
:)
Given that the review was largely an outline of the topics covered in the book, it could stand some rewriting too, but try for some more positive sounding feedback and correct use of English all `round, eh?
Interestingly, in Canada, they have provisions for this.
In Canada the legal age of (sexual) consent is 14. The minimum age for those appearing in pornography is 18. _However_, it is perfectly okay for a person to possess pornography containing persons younger than 18 _IF_ everyone in the porn is over 14 _and_ the owner appears in the imagery.
Therefore, a person _can_ take pictures of themself in sexual situations (even with others) so long as they are older than age of consent. This still precludes have pictures of just your 14-17 year old girlfriend, I assume.
((likely) highly inaccurrate legal documentation can be found on everything)
Personally, I've never heard of the book, nor the author. I should qualify that by explaining that I'm 19 and entering my 3rd year of college. I also went to a public highschool, which seems to explain a lot of my litarary inadequicies.
So, while I lack any sort of income at the moment, I'll probably pick it up if I see it.
well, as art it wasn't steller - though it could just be that I don't care for that style of animation much. so, they could improve on that.
they could also make it a bit longer and expand on the story a bit - it could be interesting.
they probably won't do that of course, but if faboo were a director....
In my day, you played on 28.8 modem, and didn't _mind_ the lag because you were only watching 17fps anyway!
:)
(you also only joined games with less than a 300ms ping time, but lots of people didn't get that)
And yes, Quake3 aside, you can own servers that way
pardon me for not actually running a server, but linux supports (I believe) reasonably large number of processors (>32 IIRC) and arbitrarily large amounts of memory. Granted, I have no experience using these extensions (my system is a work station), but they _are_ there, and they at least injure me none (as there is no requirement that I use them).
but that is that.
somebody else mentioned this, but i couldn't refind the original post to reply to, so here goes:
So, yeah, you've got this [not-so-]spiffy data disk that oxidizes (or whatever) over time. Cool, yeah, all we have to do is cover that data with some other material and it won't degrade. faboo can forsee two major issues with that.
First, what you cover the disk with would have to have an index of refraction that is reasonable close to that of air (given how far away the laser is from the disk). You can coat the disk with anything you want to preserve the impression on the disk - the _important_ part is maintaining similar reflective properties of the disk. Certainly, this is possible, particularly with the error correcting properties of DVD players, but it's still a reasonable hurdle, I would think.
Also, how are you going to apply that sort of thing? A spray can would likely yield clumps of the material at differing heights, no matter how careful you were. You certainly couldn't use a sticker (are bubbles, and just about any plastic wouldn't have the right physical properties, not to mention the adhesive). You _might_ be able to get a way with some kind of DVD shaped applicator (like for CDR labels), but you'd still probably get some clumping.
It just seems highly unreasonable to me.