Any Nomic is like Congress trying to pass bills by making them seem innocuous, like the fabled PAT
RIOT act, only maybe even more so than Congress because there is no pretense of morals to keep up.
Using perl doesn't exactly make things worse, since at least perl code has a somewhat well defined meaning, while normal language is ambiguous. Just consider the sentence "remote control flies" of/. lately.
I played a few imperial nomics, and the game of Imperial Nomic usually proceeds by the players creating a boardgame(s) with their own rules, which get accepted or rejected by The Emperor. Usually some kind of victory condition, score, or money is involved. There can also be "Intellectual property" like owning letters of the alphabet(Unfortunately real life seems to copy the game).
You can initially propose rules, but later on the rules will allow you to give orders. However, since there are a limited number of actions allowed per player, and every action is a lot of work for the moderator to work out because it is affected by all rules, there is no incentive to allow more actions for every player, and therefore there is not enough time to fully watch the effect of news rules, i.e. rules get proposed faster than taking effect.
A perl Nomic would solve some of these "bugs", e.g. you could give players twice as many actions each turn or so.
I think it would be cool to have a Physics Nomic(in perl or pseudocode), which would attempt to create interesting physics. However, the actual universe seems to be very complex, it takes quite a stack of particles to create laws like q*x^12-x^6 for the repellant force between atoms, quantum physics effects would either require lazy evaluation, or fourier transforms, or both.
For a company, not being allowed to sell a product is one of the worst things that can happen.
Suing a company into following the GPL is tricky, since the company at any time could try to just say "Hey, look we just forgot to put the source code online, here is it". On the other hand, if they choose not to follow the GPL, there is no way to force them to do so except threatening to sue them for damages(!=following GPL) and getting an injunction.
All the science part in social sciences seems to be learning to say simple things with professional word in "their" language, while avoiding to say anything of importance.
As an example, just imagine what gibberish you could turn a simple story like "When Joe accidently spilled Dan's beer, he hit Joe" into.
Something like "Following his territorial reflexes, activated by the basic fear to be separated from his mothers breast, following the pattern established by his father, Dan continued and shaped the undirected motion of intoxicating liquids into a controlled and powerful motion of his members, thus satisfying his desires for complete control."
Not true. Trade marks are only valid within an industry. Consider Remy, which makes Cognac, and Remy, which makes starter motors and alternators. Even within.com then, there are name collisions. Ideally,.com should be separated based on industry.
Yes, that is the theory, and it would make sense to proceed like this, but when there is one party owning a well-established and know trademark, and the other party is smaller, the courts will decide in favor of the big party(on the issue of the domainname) regardless of whether the big party has failed to register the trademark for the service or product the smaller party is offering, and regardless of the smaller party registering the domain first. See Milka versus Milka Couture in France.
I like your plan to have more top level domains, but it is ultimately pointless to have more, since trademarks make it hard to register similar domains under different toplevels anyway.
Therefore,.com is enough, although I admit it is nice to have separate TLDs for nations and non-profits.
One domain to rule them One domain to bind them One domain to bring them all And in the darkness find them
What happens when the guy who's supposed to be monitoring the airspace gets bored?
I guess the laser would be under automatic control and would be directed by an antiaircraft tracking and targetting system, so it would be best to take it seriously, since an armed battery might not be far away, especially if the guy manning it was bored before something to shoot at turned up.
Even bash, which predates it by many years, works better than VBScript. I guess its not 100% fair to make this reflect on Visual Basic itself, but if you hang out with "thugs" thats what you get, a bad reputation.
The fact that few using VB so far have either the skill or the interest to make their own free version of VB speaks for itself. It is not motivating to see microsoft patent simple stuff like the VB "ISNOT" operator just to see if they can get away with it, either;-)
However, a little googling(VB users can't do that I guess?!?) even turned something up that you might want to try: KBasic or Freebasic or the help of RealBasic. I guess you will then start to complain that you can't use it as your scripting language in office apps, but there are tons more scripting languages available are being used.
Same for GIMP, it works, what do you expect, a 1:1 clone? Also, a skin/mod for GIMP has been made recently to make it look and act more like Photoshop, so what is your point.. That it has the wrong name?
Now with irfanview, you got a point, but that is largely due to the fact that irfanview is distributed for free, and as such managed to gain a large userbase (which doesn't include me, so I guess one can live without irfanview). This makes irfanview into a juggernaut/black hole for improvement, however that does not mean that a collection of a few FOSS programs can't do the same and more.
Nearly all commercial software goes "bad" at some point and will require you to pay somehow for it, e.g. VMware, iconedit, various ftp clients, etc., and as such are bad to come to rely on. At first, this isn't bad, but later on it gets really costly or hard or illegal to route around that damage.
I agree, that the customer should be always right, but sometimes it is hard to take him seriously, for reasons like inflexibility and unwillingness to even use google.
.. goes to the parent. Notice how the grandparent talks specifically about civilians.
A Friend/Foe identification requires all participants to carry some sort of transponders, and can at best recognize friends, and just cannot recognize civilians at all, and in addition it cannot recognize South Korean reinforcements that might be moved into the area, since such reinforcements would have no transponders that the regular border troops might have. Also you might want to switch your transponder off in combat since it gives away your position to the enemy.
A better argument would be that human troops cause friendly fire too, so that it doesn't make much difference.
While I'm sorry for the guy, the sentence is somewhat reasonable.
10 Million emails a day makes 3.650.000.000 in a year. Suppose one second of your lifetime is spent deleting one spam email, you arrive at more than 115 years being spent deleting his spam. You save time by spam filters, but they cost resources and time to implement too.
Maybe they(banks) should outsource their call centers to Liechtenstein then, because it will be much easier to figure out who of the 25,000 inhabitants was the culprit, than to figure out who of the 295,835,000 US americans was it .
Well, they have energy and e=mcc, and they are also subject to gravity and as far as I know solar sails work by taking their impulse, so I guess though photons are massless, they are only so when in transit..
Well, yes your brain could handle "untraining", but I assume that a neural interface would be sort of flaky, at least until you do the interfacing by nanoprobes inside the brain.
And you probably wouldn't want to undergo surgery on the brain to get an implant, you'd prefer a non-invasive method.
Maybe measuring the facial muscles for control inputs would work, but I guess your interpersonal communicatio nwould suffer;-)
A small company I worked in hired a new sales guy who was desperate because we had nothing he could sell - the company only had finished products which either were written for a special customer and could not be sold, and unfinished products which he couldn't sell either.
The managements solution was to fire everyone involved, including the guys who could have worked on producing something in the first place. Not the worst solution cost-wise, but not going anywhere either.
Morale: It's ok if everyone involved gets fired, but of course management won't fire themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
Loband is not a client side filter like Adblock, but more like a proxy/webapp(translation service).
For slashdot.org, the numbers are:
without Loband:
16214 bytes + like 20 images
using Loband(from intrac page):
12922 bytes (no images)
So slashdot isn't speeded up a lot.
I guess slashdot has high entrophy..;-)
RIOT act, only maybe even more so than Congress because there is no pretense of morals to keep up.
Using perl doesn't exactly make things worse, since at least perl code has a somewhat well defined meaning, while normal language is ambiguous. Just consider the sentence "remote control flies" of /. lately.
I played a few imperial nomics, and the game of Imperial Nomic usually proceeds by the players creating a boardgame(s) with their own rules, which get accepted or rejected by The Emperor. Usually some kind of victory condition, score, or money is involved. There can also be "Intellectual property" like owning letters of the alphabet(Unfortunately real life seems to copy the game).
You can initially propose rules, but later on the rules will allow you to give orders.
However, since there are a limited number of actions allowed per player, and every action is a lot of work for the moderator to work out because it is affected by all rules, there is no incentive to allow more actions for every player, and therefore there is not enough time to fully watch the effect of news rules, i.e. rules get proposed faster than taking effect.
A perl Nomic would solve some of these "bugs", e.g. you could give players twice as many actions each turn or so.
I think it would be cool to have a Physics Nomic(in perl or pseudocode), which would attempt to create interesting physics. However, the actual universe seems to be very complex, it takes quite a stack of particles to create laws like q*x^12-x^6 for the repellant force between atoms, quantum physics effects would either require lazy evaluation, or fourier transforms, or both.
--RedLTeut / Highlander+E2
Actually, even running PHP with register_globals off can be a molehill.
From someone who enjoys using PHP, isn't hating it.
For a company, not being allowed to sell a product is one of the worst things that can happen.
Suing a company into following the GPL is tricky, since the company at any time could try to just say "Hey, look we just forgot to put the source code online, here is it". On the other hand, if they choose not to follow the GPL, there is no way to force them to do so except threatening to sue them for damages(!=following GPL) and getting an injunction.
All the science part in social sciences seems to be learning to say simple things with professional word in "their" language, while avoiding to say anything of importance.
As an example, just imagine what gibberish you could turn a simple story like "When Joe accidently spilled Dan's beer, he hit Joe" into.
Something like "Following his territorial reflexes, activated by the basic fear to be separated from his mothers breast, following the pattern established by his father, Dan continued and shaped the undirected motion of intoxicating liquids into a controlled and powerful motion of his members, thus satisfying his desires for complete control."
Not true. Trade marks are only valid within an industry. Consider Remy, which makes Cognac, and Remy, which makes starter motors and alternators. Even within .com then, there are name collisions. Ideally, .com should be separated based on industry.
Yes, that is the theory, and it would make sense to proceed like this, but when there is one party owning a well-established and know trademark, and the other party is smaller, the courts will decide in favor of the big party(on the issue of the domainname) regardless of whether the big party has failed to register the trademark for the service or product the smaller party is offering, and regardless of the smaller party registering the domain first. See Milka versus Milka Couture in France.I like your plan to have more top level domains, but it is ultimately pointless to have more, since trademarks make it hard to register similar domains under different toplevels anyway.
.com is enough, although I admit it is nice to have separate TLDs for nations and non-profits.
Therefore,
One domain to rule them
One domain to bind them
One domain to bring them all
And in the darkness find them
.. the creed of today ..
I wonder if marrying counts as a form of payment.
What happens when the guy who's supposed to be monitoring the airspace gets bored?
I guess the laser would be under automatic control and would be directed by an antiaircraft tracking and targetting system, so it would be best to take it seriously, since an armed battery might not be far away, especially if the guy manning it was bored before something to shoot at turned up.VB and its relatives have a really bad history.
;-)
.. That it has the wrong name?
Even bash, which predates it by many years, works better than VBScript. I guess its not 100% fair to make this reflect on Visual Basic itself, but if you hang out with "thugs" thats what you get, a bad reputation.
The fact that few using VB so far have either the skill or the interest to make their own free version of VB speaks for itself. It is not motivating to see microsoft patent simple stuff like the VB "ISNOT" operator just to see if they can get away with it, either
However, a little googling(VB users can't do that I guess?!?) even turned something up that you might want to try: KBasic or Freebasic or the help of RealBasic. I guess you will then start to complain that you can't use it as your scripting language in office apps, but there are tons more scripting languages available are being used.
Same for GIMP, it works, what do you expect, a 1:1 clone? Also, a skin/mod for GIMP has been made recently to make it look and act more like Photoshop, so what is your point
Now with irfanview, you got a point, but that is largely due to the fact that irfanview is distributed for free, and as such managed to gain a large userbase (which doesn't include me, so I guess one can live without irfanview). This makes irfanview into a juggernaut/black hole for improvement, however that does not mean that a collection of a few FOSS programs can't do the same and more.
Nearly all commercial software goes "bad" at some point and will require you to pay somehow for it, e.g. VMware, iconedit, various ftp clients, etc., and as such are bad to come to rely on. At first, this isn't bad, but later on it gets really costly or hard or illegal to route around that damage.
I agree, that the customer should be always right, but sometimes it is hard to take him seriously, for reasons like inflexibility and unwillingness to even use google.
- it is free as in Operation freedom
- they can blame all project delays on it
Nice to know spammers read slashdot, too.
.. what the "pseudomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistor" is after that operation, and which part of his body got operated.
tetwalker
Except its just (nanoscale) DNA molecules, no brains, no eyes, nothing. Its also like a snowflake, in a way.
I also wonder why I bother replying since you won't come back to your post anyway. Mr. A. Coward... goes to the parent. Notice how the grandparent talks specifically about civilians.
A Friend/Foe identification requires all participants to carry some sort of transponders, and can at best recognize friends, and just cannot recognize civilians at all, and in addition it cannot recognize South Korean reinforcements that might be moved into the area, since such reinforcements would have no transponders that the regular border troops might have. Also you might want to switch your transponder off in combat since it gives away your position to the enemy.
A better argument would be that human troops cause friendly fire too, so that it doesn't make much difference.
While I'm sorry for the guy, the sentence is somewhat reasonable.
10 Million emails a day makes 3.650.000.000 in a year. Suppose one second of your lifetime is spent deleting one spam email, you arrive at more than 115 years being spent deleting his spam. You save time by spam filters, but they cost resources and time to implement too.
Maybe they(banks) should outsource their call centers to Liechtenstein then, because it will be much easier to figure out who of the 25,000 inhabitants was the culprit, than to figure out who of the 295,835,000 US americans was it .
Behind a nanoscopic plasmonic shield oscillating at rotating frequencies.
And yes, you alien Lords of the Nanobuts, I'll shut up now.
the torture instrument formerly known as a game console
So, by negating the terms in the sentence, may I conclude that paper-based collections of patents make life easy for inventors then?
Well, they have energy and e=mcc, and they are also subject to gravity and as far as I know solar sails work by taking their impulse, so I guess though photons are massless, they are only so when in transit ..
Well, yes your brain could handle "untraining", but I assume that a neural interface would be sort of flaky, at least until you do the interfacing by nanoprobes inside the brain.
;-)
And you probably wouldn't want to undergo surgery on the brain to get an implant, you'd prefer a non-invasive method.
Maybe measuring the facial muscles for control inputs would work, but I guess your interpersonal communicatio nwould suffer
Well it can be worse ..
A small company I worked in hired a new sales guy who was desperate because we had nothing he could sell - the company only had finished products which either were written for a special customer and could not be sold, and unfinished products which he couldn't sell either.
The managements solution was to fire everyone involved, including the guys who could have worked on producing something in the first place. Not the worst solution cost-wise, but not going anywhere either.
Morale: It's ok if everyone involved gets fired, but of course management won't fire themselves.
I think it actually might be easier to create a neural interface that recognizes the keywords as entire words.
A whole keyboard is quite clumsy especially the rarely used characters might get untrained.