Erm.. surely you don't think countries like Canada and Australia which are underpopulated should go for a one child policy? Would they then have to import Chinese and Indians to fill the countries up? This would discriminate against and maybe eradicate the smaller ethnic groupings in the world, eg maoris, laplanders, even non latino whites.
It only makes sense for countries which don't have the economic capacity to feed themselves. And it can't ever happen where there is a semblance of democracy - ie India will never get a one child policy.
Well, you can emulate sound effects without emulationg at the molecular level - you can do it as pressure waves - still a waste of time at the moment. Its kind of like saying "Don't use textures, I want everything to be done as very small polygons with a solid colour!"
But it would still be way less than a molecule level simulator.
I think the emulator is actually an api emulator. Ie you compile to x86 code - it riuns directly. Not an arm enulator. Quake generally uses a lot of floating point - no FPU on the ipaq, so it will be deadly slow without changing everything to fixed point.
Erm... ever played on a dreamcast? It had easily the best line up of games for the two years it existed.
What the dreamcast showed is that you have to have good marketing, and not look like a company that is going to collapse in a few years. From what I've seen, MS don't match that pattern. Sad but true.
Just imagine one of these for Sega, Nintendo...
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...or even Atari.
It always makes me cringe when people say that Square is the greaest games company ever. They are so not. Some of their games are pretty damn good, mind you, but they really are not the last word in originality, innovation and fun.
The european convention on human rights does cover germany, and does include freedom of expression provisions. All of the France & Germany anti nazi laws are coming under scrutiny atm, but another provision of the converntion is anti discrimination.
I'm attracted to almost exactly the opposite
idea - capability systems. I really can't be arsed
to explain them to you... but effectively the
idea is to cut everything into smaller and smaller protection domains. I really don't like the idea of trusting the code correctness of a lisp or haskell compiler for my system security.
In fact, I don't like the idea of trusting anything. See www.eros-os.org, and www.caplore.com.
BTW the signing thing as sole security mechanism is really really insecure. It provides a false sense of security... as it is very likely that at least some key you trust WILL be leaked. So you need traditional measures to limit the damage. In the case of eros, a bad sound driver could maybe record a short amount of audio and distort it, and play it back. And nothing else. Under your system, it could send every file on your system to the attacker, plant child porn and terrorist plans on your system, and contact the FBI to screw your ass. In fact, even a bad image editing plugin could do this - just as it can under windows and linux today.
Re performance - hardware is designed for context switching nowadays. To not use it is to throw away features for no gain.
I did the same thing... had a go at you for doing something I couldn't see the point in. I think its a natural human response, but probably not a good one.
The real question is, why do you care?
People do what they want to do, not
what you want them to do. Most people don't bother degrading other peoples lives, but you seem to like it. Good for you.
Please realise that I do know this post is hypocritical, or self-parodying for the pretentious. That was the intention.
Yes, I definitely agree that western countries, primarily the EU, US, Canada, Japan, Aus, NZ, etc. should as a matter of policy try to lift the rest of the world out of poverty, rather than profit as much as possible from it. But doing that now will not eliminate the passion against westerners that was fostered by 50 years of insane foreign policy. It will take a very long time before these grudges are eliminated.
Re extreme cases - you don't really need that many extreme cases to have a pretty bad disaster.
Those few who infiltrate will grow accustomed to the softness of the new lifestyle, and be unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to fight their cause.
Sep 11 showed that that is not true.
Many of the suspects were long term US or EU residents. I definitely agree that any occupation or military action against any foe should be followed by a Marshall plan style economic boost - just look at Germany and Japan.
I think Iraq should have been dealt with like this - after a full occupation - rather than starving civilians. Unfortunately, people can actually still want to commit these kinds of acts in a fully western society. Look at Northern Ireland, ETA in the Basque, etc. Some things are elevated in peoples hearts to the point that they are willing to make any sacrifice.
I have no idea how you combat that. To discredit a deeply religious cause or ancestral territorial claim is really difficult.
One other thing... I heard that the US army in the Phillipines (against Islamic rebels) used to cover their bullets in pig fat, and bury the dead Muslims with pigs. This made it a whole lot harder for them to believe they were going to heaven, and demoralision followed. Don't know how it would go down now...
Hm... I'd say freedom is the ability to do what you want. For a large proportion of the population, that includes taking drugs. So its not really that unreasonable a metric, is it? Do you think a joint is more dangerous than a gun?
For all the monkeys who believe that one expressed opinion implies the denial of all others: Fuck off.
The European Declaration of Human Rights is what supposedly determines our rights. But legal inertia persists, as in the US.
Also like the US, silly laws get passed, a few dodgy people are sent to jail, then the silliness becomes apparent, and the law is struck down. The US seems to have the lead in silliness at the moment. DumbLaws (tm) generally seem to get struck down quicker in the UK, if they are enforced. Note that RIP ( give us your keys) doesn't actually seem to be enforced currently. They know its going down. I hope.
If you remain silent, we're going to tell on you! The court is told you were silent, which may be judged as an admission of guilt. You have to wonder what they thought before when there was no defendants statement or testimony...
No guns. Most people view this as the freedom not to be shot. You might not.
CCTV cameras are more common. I find it hard to get scared about this.
Data Protection - we have better protection from companies leaking information to each other.
You can drink when you are 18. I'm guessing this is a big whoop to you. Well, your kids will thank you. And younger women in bars. They'd probably go for married Americans.
We get royally ripped off in every area of economic activity. And we grin and bear it.
Welcome to treasure isle.
The government will do anything the US government tells them to, via the WTO or WIPO. Or even just to their face. Unless the EU tells them something else. So basically, we rely on the sanity of the French and Germans. Seems to work ok so far...
If you get a hankering for more freedom, or mushrooms, Amsterdam is a 90 minute flight from London. What more can I say?
Erm - the statistics you mentioned ( I can't be arsed to look them up if you can't) were deeply flawed. They were due to a change in the way the figures were reported. They also included the amazing increase in gun crime that occured when guns were banned. The new crimes were: Possession of a fire arm.
Trust me. America is far more violent than Britain. These problems do need to be sorted out. Just going "Wah!!! I like my guns!" isn't going to help.
In the UK, we have something called the Data Protection Act. It basically says "Don't give out your customers data unless they ask you to."
I believe similar laws exist in the rest of the EU.
Now the downside: A lot of contracts specify that you are waiving your data protection rights (eg credit cards, so they can run a little "bad credit" clearing extortion racket on the side). This is dodgy, and a lot of consumer rights groups are pissed off about it. Hopefully it will be changed.
Other contracts have tiny boxes saying eg "tick here if you don't want to not invalidate your data protection rights" or something equally bewildering, so a lot of people have no idea what the box means, and end up giving permission for their data to be sold.
Anyway, a law like this could work.
But if you want a technical solution for your particular problem, there are a couple:
1) The advertising requester could create a proxy with a one time address that would then be deleted when you no longer want that bunch of adverts. They don't need info about you and they don't need to correlate it. They just need info about your requirements.
2) (My favourite) everyone just publishes information about their services on thier website in a machine understandable form ( eg similar to the BizTalk XML schemas without the broken licence) and multiple search engines indexes them. Then you put in your query, and get the list of services that fit your requirements. And contact them in whatever way you see fit.
The Metropolitan Police ( The London PD if
you are ignorant), MI5 and MI6 all have teams *ready* to go to New York *now*. Also medical personnel. They have been ready for days. Believe me, they are a lot more experienced with terrorist attacks than the NYPD, or any American agency.
But they can't get there. Why? US airspace is closed. Hopefully an RAF or USAF plane will get them there soon. So when it is impossible for them to get there, don't fucking criticize because of your own lack of knowledge.
And remember - the bombs that have hit MY city in the past 30 years have all been funded by New York Irish. (btw - I am half irish. but I still don't think bombs are good.)
And when/if the US invades Afghanistan, who do you think will be there with them? In that kind of terrain, I would want as many Ghurkas as I could get. Don't be so off hand about your allies. Especially your closest ones.
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Sorry, you aren't making sense.
Microsoft plan a stupid thing that tramples on consumers rights, so you support something very nearly as stupid? Huh? In case you haven't noticed, two things can both be bad without being the same. There isn't always a good guy in every comparison.
Nodelocking is broken technology - it relies on ignorance, and its only purpose is to undermine the doctrine of first sale. It does nothing to stop piracy. No nodelocking technology is worth the bits it is encoded in.
The first point is mainly because there are no
good free tools for content creation.
SDL doesn't really *do* very much ( in terms of computation), and it has no glaring design flaws.
I imagine the performance problems are of your own creation.
Erm, a nested interface could be written for NNTP. That was the whole point of the parent comment.
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Hey, you forgot about "On the hour"!
It was a Radio 4 show - before the
day today - absolutely
fantastic parody of radio reporting -
eg the Foreign minister gambling away
the 5th of June at an EU conference.;-)
In fact, there wouldn't be less work for programmers to do. There would be less BORING work. Writing the same stuff over and over again would not be necessary, so companies would have more money to invest in actually new ideas.
The reason the Xbox is attractive to developers is exactly the reason it doesn't appeal to consumers:
It runs pc games easily.
PC games are generally shoddy piles of shit. They have at least 3 patches in their lifetimes... and even then they are very unpolished. PC games suck. The might be fun, and
innovative, but they sure as hell crash a lot.
Thats why I play all my games on a console.
Its so fresh and so clean. No hassle.
The upshot:
Hm, bzzzzzzt, but as soon as you say bzzzzzt, you lose. Godwins law extension number 56.
Everyone who is satisfied with an mp3 would have been satisifed with a tape. Everyone who can nw get an mp3 could have gotten a tape in the past.
Remember public libraries? Remember "I got this as a gift and I already had it"? Dumbass.
No change in market size. Thery may get it quicker, but any business model based on lag is useless. Freeloaders are freeloaders, in this society that *is* acceptable. The upshot:
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AFAIK....
Omni is a set of drivers. It competes with the standard gs drivers and gimp-print.
CUPS is a queueing system. It competes with LPRng, PDQ, etc.
Erm.. surely you don't think countries like Canada and Australia which are underpopulated should go for a one child policy? Would they then have to import Chinese and Indians to fill the countries up? This would discriminate against and maybe eradicate the smaller ethnic groupings in the world, eg maoris, laplanders, even non latino whites.
It only makes sense for countries which don't have the economic capacity to feed themselves. And it can't ever happen where there is a semblance of democracy - ie India will never get a one child policy.
Well, you can emulate sound effects without emulationg at the molecular level - you can do it as pressure waves - still a waste of time at the moment. Its kind of like saying "Don't use textures, I want everything to be done as very small polygons with a solid colour!"
But it would still be way less than a molecule level simulator.
My god, you must be really clever.
You said absolutely nothing I didn't say. Dumb ass.
I think the emulator is actually an api emulator. Ie you compile to x86 code - it riuns directly. Not an arm enulator. Quake generally uses a lot of floating point - no FPU on the ipaq, so it will be deadly slow without changing everything to fixed point.
Erm... ever played on a dreamcast? It had easily the best line up of games for the two years it existed.
What the dreamcast showed is that you have to have good marketing, and not look like a company that is going to collapse in a few years. From what I've seen, MS don't match that pattern. Sad but true.
...or even Atari.
It always makes me cringe when people say that Square is the greaest games company ever. They are so not. Some of their games are pretty damn good, mind you, but they really are not the last word in originality, innovation and fun.
yeah, he does seem US-centric.... but:
The european convention on human rights does cover germany, and does include freedom of expression provisions. All of the France & Germany anti nazi laws are coming under scrutiny atm, but another provision of the converntion is anti discrimination.
Ah, well who knows.
Hm, strange.
I'm attracted to almost exactly the opposite
idea - capability systems. I really can't be arsed
to explain them to you... but effectively the
idea is to cut everything into smaller and smaller protection domains. I really don't like the idea of trusting the code correctness of a lisp or haskell compiler for my system security.
In fact, I don't like the idea of trusting anything. See www.eros-os.org, and www.caplore.com.
BTW the signing thing as sole security mechanism is really really insecure. It provides a false sense of security... as it is very likely that at least some key you trust WILL be leaked. So you need traditional measures to limit the damage. In the case of eros, a bad sound driver could maybe record a short amount of audio and distort it, and play it back. And nothing else. Under your system, it could send every file on your system to the attacker, plant child porn and terrorist plans on your system, and contact the FBI to screw your ass. In fact, even a bad image editing plugin could do this - just as it can under windows and linux today.
Re performance - hardware is designed for context switching nowadays. To not use it is to throw away features for no gain.
Rob
I did the same thing... had a go at you for doing something I couldn't see the point in. I think its a natural human response, but probably not a good one.
Why?
The real question is, why do you care?
People do what they want to do, not
what you want them to do. Most people don't bother degrading other peoples lives, but you seem to like it. Good for you.
Please realise that I do know this post is hypocritical, or self-parodying for the pretentious. That was the intention.
Yes, I definitely agree that western countries, primarily the EU, US, Canada, Japan, Aus, NZ, etc. should as a matter of policy try to lift the rest of the world out of poverty, rather than profit as much as possible from it. But doing that now will not eliminate the passion against westerners that was fostered by 50 years of insane foreign policy. It will take a very long time before these grudges are eliminated.
Re extreme cases - you don't really need that many extreme cases to have a pretty bad disaster.
Those few who infiltrate will grow accustomed to the softness of the new lifestyle, and be unwilling to make the sacrifices necessary to fight their cause.
Sep 11 showed that that is not true.
Many of the suspects were long term US or EU residents. I definitely agree that any occupation or military action against any foe should be followed by a Marshall plan style economic boost - just look at Germany and Japan.
I think Iraq should have been dealt with like this - after a full occupation - rather than starving civilians. Unfortunately, people can actually still want to commit these kinds of acts in a fully western society. Look at Northern Ireland, ETA in the Basque, etc. Some things are elevated in peoples hearts to the point that they are willing to make any sacrifice.
I have no idea how you combat that. To discredit a deeply religious cause or ancestral territorial claim is really difficult.
One other thing... I heard that the US army in the Phillipines (against Islamic rebels) used to cover their bullets in pig fat, and bury the dead Muslims with pigs. This made it a whole lot harder for them to believe they were going to heaven, and demoralision followed. Don't know how it would go down now...
"I love the smell of pig fat in the morning!"
Hm... I'd say freedom is the ability to do what you want. For a large proportion of the population, that includes taking drugs. So its not really that unreasonable a metric, is it? Do you think a joint is more dangerous than a gun?
For all the monkeys who believe that one expressed opinion implies the denial of all others: Fuck off.
Ok...all AFAIK, IMO, IANAL etc,
The European Declaration of Human Rights is what supposedly determines our rights. But legal inertia persists, as in the US.
Also like the US, silly laws get passed, a few dodgy people are sent to jail, then the silliness becomes apparent, and the law is struck down. The US seems to have the lead in silliness at the moment. DumbLaws (tm) generally seem to get struck down quicker in the UK, if they are enforced. Note that RIP ( give us your keys) doesn't actually seem to be enforced currently. They know its going down. I hope.
If you remain silent, we're going to tell on you! The court is told you were silent, which may be judged as an admission of guilt. You have to wonder what they thought before when there was no defendants statement or testimony...
No guns. Most people view this as the freedom not to be shot. You might not.
CCTV cameras are more common. I find it hard to get scared about this.
Data Protection - we have better protection from companies leaking information to each other.
You can drink when you are 18. I'm guessing this is a big whoop to you. Well, your kids will thank you. And younger women in bars. They'd probably go for married Americans.
We get royally ripped off in every area of economic activity. And we grin and bear it.
Welcome to treasure isle.
The government will do anything the US government tells them to, via the WTO or WIPO. Or even just to their face. Unless the EU tells them something else. So basically, we rely on the sanity of the French and Germans. Seems to work ok so far...
If you get a hankering for more freedom, or mushrooms, Amsterdam is a 90 minute flight from London. What more can I say?
Erm - the statistics you mentioned ( I can't be arsed to look them up if you can't) were deeply flawed. They were due to a change in the way the figures were reported. They also included the amazing increase in gun crime that occured when guns were banned. The new crimes were: Possession of a fire arm.
Trust me. America is far more violent than Britain. These problems do need to be sorted out. Just going "Wah!!! I like my guns!" isn't going to help.
In the UK, we have something called the Data Protection Act. It basically says "Don't give out your customers data unless they ask you to."
I believe similar laws exist in the rest of the EU.
Now the downside: A lot of contracts specify that you are waiving your data protection rights (eg credit cards, so they can run a little "bad credit" clearing extortion racket on the side). This is dodgy, and a lot of consumer rights groups are pissed off about it. Hopefully it will be changed.
Other contracts have tiny boxes saying eg "tick here if you don't want to not invalidate your data protection rights" or something equally bewildering, so a lot of people have no idea what the box means, and end up giving permission for their data to be sold.
Anyway, a law like this could work.
But if you want a technical solution for your particular problem, there are a couple:
1) The advertising requester could create a proxy with a one time address that would then be deleted when you no longer want that bunch of adverts. They don't need info about you and they don't need to correlate it. They just need info about your requirements.
2) (My favourite) everyone just publishes information about their services on thier website in a machine understandable form ( eg similar to the BizTalk XML schemas without the broken licence) and multiple search engines indexes them. Then you put in your query, and get the list of services that fit your requirements. And contact them in whatever way you see fit.
Anyway, enough rambling..
> Hell, I don't see Japan, England, France,
re: Britain
The Metropolitan Police ( The London PD if
you are ignorant), MI5 and MI6 all have teams *ready* to go to New York *now*. Also medical personnel. They have been ready for days. Believe me, they are a lot more experienced with terrorist attacks than the NYPD, or any American agency.
But they can't get there. Why? US airspace is closed. Hopefully an RAF or USAF plane will get them there soon. So when it is impossible for them to get there, don't fucking criticize because of your own lack of knowledge.
And remember - the bombs that have hit MY city in the past 30 years have all been funded by New York Irish. (btw - I am half irish. but I still don't think bombs are good.)
And when/if the US invades Afghanistan, who do you think will be there with them? In that kind of terrain, I would want as many Ghurkas as I could get. Don't be so off hand about your allies. Especially your closest ones.
Sorry, you aren't making sense.
Microsoft plan a stupid thing that tramples on consumers rights, so you support something very nearly as stupid? Huh? In case you haven't noticed, two things can both be bad without being the same. There isn't always a good guy in every comparison.
Nodelocking is broken technology - it relies on ignorance, and its only purpose is to undermine the doctrine of first sale. It does nothing to stop piracy. No nodelocking technology is worth the bits it is encoded in.
The first point is mainly because there are no
good free tools for content creation.
SDL doesn't really *do* very much ( in terms of computation), and it has no glaring design flaws.
I imagine the performance problems are of your own creation.
Erm, a nested interface could be written for NNTP. That was the whole point of the parent comment.
Hey, you forgot about "On the hour"! ;-)
It was a Radio 4 show - before the
day today - absolutely
fantastic parody of radio reporting -
eg the Foreign minister gambling away
the 5th of June at an EU conference.
In fact, there wouldn't be less work for programmers to do. There would be less BORING work. Writing the same stuff over and over again would not be necessary, so companies would have more money to invest in actually new ideas.
The reason the Xbox is attractive to developers is exactly the reason it doesn't appeal to consumers:
It runs pc games easily.
PC games are generally shoddy piles of shit. They have at least 3 patches in their lifetimes... and even then they are very unpolished. PC games suck. The might be fun, and
innovative, but they sure as hell crash a lot.
Thats why I play all my games on a console.
Its so fresh and so clean. No hassle.
The upshot:
You are an idiot and I claim my five pounds.
Hm, bzzzzzzt, but as soon as you say bzzzzzt, you lose. Godwins law extension number 56.
Everyone who is satisfied with an mp3 would have been satisifed with a tape. Everyone who can nw get an mp3 could have gotten a tape in the past.
Remember public libraries? Remember "I got this as a gift and I already had it"? Dumbass.
No change in market size. Thery may get it quicker, but any business model based on lag is useless. Freeloaders are freeloaders, in this society that *is* acceptable. The upshot:
You are a dumbass and I claim my five pounds.