Actually, in Korea, they do eat dog. Animal rights activists are consistently agitated over it.
If the reports are true that say they believe that beating the animal to a very painful and panicked death improves the flavor, I'm actually inclined to agree for once.
Has anyone tried to write a generalized web application framework (or even server) that uses PHP? I appreciate the PHP database and session stuff, but sometimes it would seem if there was a framework that was a little bit beyond this, I could save some time.
Yeah, I could write one myself (and in fact I am), but I'm thinking I can't be the only one thinking about this.
Because you're think speed and they're thinking effort. More probably, you're thinking like a mathemetician... a steeply rising curve is one that rises quickly. A genly rising curve takes forever.
A steep curve has a steep slope. Sure, it rises quickly if you're just plotting height against some horizontal variation, but if you're climbing it, actual progress can be very slow inded. A gentle curve rises slowly, but is easy to move over, so actual progress can be quicker. This becomes very clear after you've done a bit of mountain hiking, and most of us on slashdot could use some time outside, so I urge everyone to try this.
When I think steep learning curve, besides thinking of bushwhacking up Jacob's Ladder to get to Lone Peak (overlooking Salt Lake City, Heber, and Provo in Utah), I think of Finale (the music typesetting program). Holy cow, you have to fight to learn that thing.
Learning by doing is great for getting started but leaves you a far cry from being someone that I'd want to hire.
As someone who has been through close to a dozen different languages, I've come to realize that the syntax is one of the easier things to pick up when learning a new language. What you need guidance on is about best practices in your new language.
True.... but the nice thing about the PHP docs is that they have this stuff in it. The user comments in the documentation are frequently filled with snippets of code, and the docs themselves often have some. Best practices? There might be some out there I don't know about... but I like how user input and the maintainers seem to keep good practices a part of the PHP docs.
And if we ever saw that sort of life, would we recognise it even if it was staring us in the face?
Maybe not the staring, but once it started gestating in our stomachs and erupting through our abdominal walls, we might. : )
Or possibly, blowing up our capitals. Or offering to sell us something. Or filing suit against Microsoft for anticomptetive practices. The usual things that get our attention.
Iowa is an interesting state. It's got a relatively small population, which at one point was even the fastest shrinking population of any state in the US -- this in a time of urban sprawl and growth mentality. This could have made it politically marginal, but by cleverly arranging early caucuses there, they're suddenly important.
One wonders if this isn't another realization of the power of precedent setting, and perhaps a manifestation of that rumored Midwestern common sense.:)
OK, our friend Leibowitits presents a reasonably convincing argument about file sharing.... file sharing is huge, and we don't see any appreciable change in sales, so something else must be going on. I buy that.
I have to question his credibility just a little bit. No network effect? The term "path dependence" is fairly well distributed through the economic literature, and I can't recall the name, but I once tried to work through a paper on it from someone at the Santa Fe Institute... not exactly a bunch of intellectual lightweights (at the very least as credible as anyone from the Cato Institute). The paper supported the network effect.
The Salon article almost presents Leibowitz as having debunked the concept rather than challenged it. Lots of handwaving if you ask me.
But then again, that's been my experience with econ in general. : )
From looking at the site, it looks like audacity is mainly a stereo soundfile editor... does it do multitrack mixing a la Pro Tools? Or is there something else that does?
Obviously a campaign would have to be conducted with considerably more finese than that kind of statement. But tech savvy wouldn't be a liability, necessarily. Try the following rephrasing of your "vote for me" statement on for size:
"As technology plays a larger role in our day-to-day lives, it becomes more essential that those who make policy truly understand it. My frontline experience in the tech sector gives me insights into the capabilities and limitations of technology that my opponent simply doesn't have."
Doesn't sound quite as bad this way.
Not everyone in the slashdot community would be able to present themselves this way, but I think there's a number of them who are articulate and not just one dimensional techies.
If the traditional music business eventually finds that it cannot sustain itself, then it will need to either adapt itself to use a new business model or go away.
Quite so. The problem is that the current business model it favors is one that consists of complete control of distribution channels. Most businesses favor such things. It gives them a sure thing, license to print money, rather than taking the risk of actually having to develop a product people want to give you money for.
I do think you have a point... if someone were to start making serious money or sell more albumns by giving music they held the licenses to away, then that would be the death of the RIAA.
But really, that hasn't happened yet, and as long as RIAA folks have ties in with mass media and distribution channels, it'll continue to be this way, and so we're left with massive uncontrolable civil disobedience or legislation to solve the problem.
Not in 10 years. This is going to take a legislative policy change... there could be some changes in the courts, but as we all know, court decisions will probably come down on the side of those with the most money (large corps/very rich individuals with a lot of IP to lose). Most of the public is simply not aware enough of IP issues, and most legislators probably beleive in a conservative view of IP.
I think it'll have to get worse before it gets better in order for the public to start examining it. But I also think in about 20 years, we'll start to get a crop of legislators that are not quite so corporate. I think it's partly a demographic thing.
Of course, it will help if the average slashdot guy becomes a little more activist. Should you run for congress?
What? No hidden files? Hmmmm. What about dotfiles? Go to your home directory and type:
ls -lad.*
Those are pretty common. Of course, you could argue they're not really hidden from the user, since the command I just typed reveals them, and so will half the ftp clients and a number of the file managers out there in the world, and so only shell geeks who know how to reveal them consider them hidden anyway. Still... it wouldn't be hard for a virus to hide some part of itself in an obscure or innocuously named dotfile to make itself harder to notice or remove....
1) a number of OS X users have been trying to get themselves logged in as root. This will probably continue as more people w/o unix experience continue to the platform. The same thing can/could happen with Linux.
2) what about users who've made themselves part of important groups? Could vulnerabilities happen this way?
I didn't pick it up, but one of my serious-philosophy-student friends did, and he passed it on to me. Then we started talking about how Greek the whole "On one hand.... and on the other hand..." thing was.
The Greeks also asked questions like "How do we know we're not just brains in a jar being fed reality by demons?" and Plato had his platonic forms which could be stretched to be code for reality. The classes, rather than the objects, if you will. : )
I don't know about that, but "Larry" Fishburne was in one of the best B-movies to ever come out of the 1980s. "Band of the Hand," brought to you by the people who made Miami vice, features a group of juvenille delinquents who are put through an experimental youth survival program in the Florida Everglades by a tough but caring ex-marine. When they move to a halfway house in Miami, "Larry" plays a pimp/dealer who resents them cleaning up the neighborhood. So the ex-marine trains the ex-delinquents in automatic weapons and paramilitary tactics and they clean up the streets. Fantastic stuff.
It's weird, you watch it, and you keep thinking "I should be unhappier with this film, but it's strangely satisfying!"
I had the reverse experience with The Matrix: I watched expecting a total action flick, no real meaning at all. In fact, I didn't watch it until well over a year and a half after it came out. I looked down on Matrix weenies. And the first time I watched it, I saw nothing but popcorn on screen.
Over time, tho', it's interesting... I started to see some of the Greek Philosophy and allusions come through. Now it's something I DO actually think about. Humans as Batteries? Don't make me laugh. Keanu Reeves as a Messiah? It does make me laugh. "There is no spoon?" OK, not deep. But the mythology of overcoming lack of confidence, making a choice to risk, choosing to risk for others, undertaking a quest for something bigger than yourself, looking for guidance from an oracle (and a fairly Delphic one at that!)... all good stuff.
Plus, I just love Agent Smith. "It's the smell!" I'll bet you two of my best baseball cards that Agent Smith could kick Darth Vader's butt.
The idea being, if you're going to execute somebody anyway, asphyxiation with an inert gas isn't quite as brutal as electrocution, cyanide gas, lethal injection, a firing squad, hanging, or beheading, the methods usually employed in the world today.
"Less brutal." That seems accurate.
OK, the raving semantic consequentialist in me is placated. : )
Still a Few Important Apps Have Yet To Migrate
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There's still a few important apps that have yet to migrate, after which I will probably only boot into OS 9 to remind myself how snappy everything responded:
Pro Tools: Last I checked, no OS X support for the defacto standard in professional audio engineering (not to mention the huge amateur market that uses Pro Tools, esp. Pro Tools Free). This is a BIG app... creative/audio professionals depend on it.
Digital Performer: They're promising OS X, but nothing yet
Various other soft synths: Reason, Supercollider, Reaktor, etc....
Yeah, they're all audio apps, and the funny thing is, OS X is supposed to have inherited a kick-butt set of classes/APIs for dealing with Audio and Music (MusicKit), but I haven't seen a whole lot come of it yet. Hmmm
Everybody thinks they know what their community wants/needs. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're not.
That's why the model of an individual creating a geographic community's website doesn't work so well. Instead what you need is a place on line where individual community members can create their own resources. They get involvement at a level they're interested in, you get volunteer labor and a diversity of ideas that couldn't exist otherwise.
(Note: specifically because there is no sensation of pain or suffocation, inert-gas asphyxiation has been proposed as a humane method of execution.)
The mere idea of having execution become seen as humane frightens me. Someone once speculated that the problem with "stun weapons" is that because they did no (well, rare... well, pretty rare, anyway) lasting harm, police and authorities would use them with greater impunity. Hey, why not shock a demonstrator or two? No permanent damage, and it's humane!
Of course, you probably didn't mean to imply that execution is humane, just that inert gas asphyxiation is a better way to go than a bullet or the chair, and that's gotta be true. Still... I think it's better not to attach the words. Execution may be necessary sometimes... but let's never fool ourselves about what it is.
Re:Spidey is why I learned to read
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Mom says I learned to read when she tape-recorded herself reading my favorite spiderman book. After reading and re-reading it as only obsessive children can, I could read.
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You Eat Dog Now
Actually, in Korea, they do eat dog. Animal rights activists are consistently agitated over it.
If the reports are true that say they believe that beating the animal to a very painful and panicked death improves the flavor, I'm actually inclined to agree for once.
Will this Redneck Linux outsell Redhat Linux? Will people remember there are other distributions?
Will pictures of a penguin urinating replace those travesties of Bill Watterson's creations that are now ubiquitous?
If it crashes a lot, will anyone notice?
Has anyone tried to write a generalized web application framework (or even server) that uses PHP? I appreciate the PHP database and session stuff, but sometimes it would seem if there was a framework that was a little bit beyond this, I could save some time.
Yeah, I could write one myself (and in fact I am), but I'm thinking I can't be the only one thinking about this.
Because you're think speed and they're thinking effort. More probably, you're thinking like a mathemetician... a steeply rising curve is one that rises quickly. A genly rising curve takes forever.
A steep curve has a steep slope. Sure, it rises quickly if you're just plotting height against some horizontal variation, but if you're climbing it, actual progress can be very slow inded. A gentle curve rises slowly, but is easy to move over, so actual progress can be quicker. This becomes very clear after you've done a bit of mountain hiking, and most of us on slashdot could use some time outside, so I urge everyone to try this.
When I think steep learning curve, besides thinking of bushwhacking up Jacob's Ladder to get to Lone Peak (overlooking Salt Lake City, Heber, and Provo in Utah), I think of Finale (the music typesetting program). Holy cow, you have to fight to learn that thing.
Learning by doing is great for getting started but leaves you a far cry from being someone that I'd want to hire.
As someone who has been through close to a dozen different languages, I've come to realize that the syntax is one of the easier things to pick up when learning a new language. What you need guidance on is about best practices in your new language.
True.... but the nice thing about the PHP docs is that they have this stuff in it. The user comments in the documentation are frequently filled with snippets of code, and the docs themselves often have some. Best practices? There might be some out there I don't know about... but I like how user input and the maintainers seem to keep good practices a part of the PHP docs.
Yep. And when that happens, I'm leaving.
.5 c again, so help me..."
Not if you have kids, you aren't.
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"How much longer?"
"I just told you, we've got at least 75 light years!"
"But I have to go!"
"Dammit, if I have to decelerate below
And if we ever saw that sort of life, would we recognise it even if it was staring us in the face?
Maybe not the staring, but once it started gestating in our stomachs and erupting through our abdominal walls, we might. : )
Or possibly, blowing up our capitals. Or offering to sell us something. Or filing suit against Microsoft for anticomptetive practices. The usual things that get our attention.
Iowa is an interesting state. It's got a relatively small population, which at one point was even the fastest shrinking population of any state in the US -- this in a time of urban sprawl and growth mentality. This could have made it politically marginal, but by cleverly arranging early caucuses there, they're suddenly important.
:)
One wonders if this isn't another realization of the power of precedent setting, and perhaps a manifestation of that rumored Midwestern common sense.
OK, our friend Leibowitits presents a reasonably convincing argument about file sharing.... file sharing is huge, and we don't see any appreciable change in sales, so something else must be going on. I buy that.
I have to question his credibility just a little bit. No network effect? The term "path dependence" is fairly well distributed through the economic literature, and I can't recall the name, but I once tried to work through a paper on it from someone at the Santa Fe Institute... not exactly a bunch of intellectual lightweights (at the very least as credible as anyone from the Cato Institute). The paper supported the network effect.
The Salon article almost presents Leibowitz as having debunked the concept rather than challenged it. Lots of handwaving if you ask me.
But then again, that's been my experience with econ in general. : )
From looking at the site, it looks like audacity is mainly a stereo soundfile editor... does it do multitrack mixing a la Pro Tools? Or is there something else that does?
Obviously a campaign would have to be conducted with considerably more finese than that kind of statement. But tech savvy wouldn't be a liability, necessarily. Try the following rephrasing of your "vote for me" statement on for size:
"As technology plays a larger role in our day-to-day lives, it becomes more essential that those who make policy truly understand it. My frontline experience in the tech sector gives me insights into the capabilities and limitations of technology that my opponent simply doesn't have."
Doesn't sound quite as bad this way.
Not everyone in the slashdot community would be able to present themselves this way, but I think there's a number of them who are articulate and not just one dimensional techies.
If the traditional music business eventually finds that it cannot sustain itself, then it will need to either adapt itself to use a new business model or go away.
Quite so. The problem is that the current business model it favors is one that consists of complete control of distribution channels. Most businesses favor such things. It gives them a sure thing, license to print money, rather than taking the risk of actually having to develop a product people want to give you money for.
I do think you have a point... if someone were to start making serious money or sell more albumns by giving music they held the licenses to away, then that would be the death of the RIAA.
But really, that hasn't happened yet, and as long as RIAA folks have ties in with mass media and distribution channels, it'll continue to be this way, and so we're left with massive uncontrolable civil disobedience or legislation to solve the problem.
Not in 10 years. This is going to take a legislative policy change... there could be some changes in the courts, but as we all know, court decisions will probably come down on the side of those with the most money (large corps/very rich individuals with a lot of IP to lose). Most of the public is simply not aware enough of IP issues, and most legislators probably beleive in a conservative view of IP.
I think it'll have to get worse before it gets better in order for the public to start examining it. But I also think in about 20 years, we'll start to get a crop of legislators that are not quite so corporate. I think it's partly a demographic thing.
Of course, it will help if the average slashdot guy becomes a little more activist. Should you run for congress?
...because there are no hidden files on Linux...
.*
What? No hidden files? Hmmmm. What about dotfiles? Go to your home directory and type:
ls -lad
Those are pretty common. Of course, you could argue they're not really hidden from the user, since the command I just typed reveals them, and so will half the ftp clients and a number of the file managers out there in the world, and so only shell geeks who know how to reveal them consider them hidden anyway. Still... it wouldn't be hard for a virus to hide some part of itself in an obscure or innocuously named dotfile to make itself harder to notice or remove....
Two thoughts in support of this:
1) a number of OS X users have been trying to get themselves logged in as root. This will probably continue as more people w/o unix experience continue to the platform. The same thing can/could happen with Linux.
2) what about users who've made themselves part of important groups? Could vulnerabilities happen this way?
I didn't pick it up, but one of my serious-philosophy-student friends did, and he passed it on to me. Then we started talking about how Greek the whole "On one hand.... and on the other hand..." thing was.
The Greeks also asked questions like "How do we know we're not just brains in a jar being fed reality by demons?" and Plato had his platonic forms which could be stretched to be code for reality. The classes, rather than the objects, if you will. : )
I stopped caring what you had to say when "I'll bet you two of my best baseball cards that Agent Smith could kick Darth Vader's butt." came out.
:)
Altogether fortunate that I was done saying things at that point, eh?
It was a joke.
"No way! Aquaman could take BOTH of them, I tell you... he'd just have to summon a giant squid and a few sharks."
(sharks with frickin' laser beams, I might add
I don't know about that, but "Larry" Fishburne was in one of the best B-movies to ever come out of the 1980s. "Band of the Hand," brought to you by the people who made Miami vice, features a group of juvenille delinquents who are put through an experimental youth survival program in the Florida Everglades by a tough but caring ex-marine. When they move to a halfway house in Miami, "Larry" plays a pimp/dealer who resents them cleaning up the neighborhood. So the ex-marine trains the ex-delinquents in automatic weapons and paramilitary tactics and they clean up the streets. Fantastic stuff.
It's weird, you watch it, and you keep thinking "I should be unhappier with this film, but it's strangely satisfying!"
I had the reverse experience with The Matrix: I watched expecting a total action flick, no real meaning at all. In fact, I didn't watch it until well over a year and a half after it came out. I looked down on Matrix weenies. And the first time I watched it, I saw nothing but popcorn on screen.
Over time, tho', it's interesting... I started to see some of the Greek Philosophy and allusions come through. Now it's something I DO actually think about. Humans as Batteries? Don't make me laugh. Keanu Reeves as a Messiah? It does make me laugh. "There is no spoon?" OK, not deep. But the mythology of overcoming lack of confidence, making a choice to risk, choosing to risk for others, undertaking a quest for something bigger than yourself, looking for guidance from an oracle (and a fairly Delphic one at that!)... all good stuff.
Plus, I just love Agent Smith. "It's the smell!" I'll bet you two of my best baseball cards that Agent Smith could kick Darth Vader's butt.
The idea being, if you're going to execute somebody anyway, asphyxiation with an inert gas isn't quite as brutal as electrocution, cyanide gas, lethal injection, a firing squad, hanging, or beheading, the methods usually employed in the world today.
"Less brutal." That seems accurate.
OK, the raving semantic consequentialist in me is placated. : )
Yeah, they're all audio apps, and the funny thing is, OS X is supposed to have inherited a kick-butt set of classes/APIs for dealing with Audio and Music (MusicKit), but I haven't seen a whole lot come of it yet. Hmmm
Everybody thinks they know what their community wants/needs. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're not.
That's why the model of an individual creating a geographic community's website doesn't work so well. Instead what you need is a place on line where individual community members can create their own resources. They get involvement at a level they're interested in, you get volunteer labor and a diversity of ideas that couldn't exist otherwise.
(Note: specifically because there is no sensation of pain or suffocation, inert-gas asphyxiation has been proposed as a humane method of execution.)
The mere idea of having execution become seen as humane frightens me. Someone once speculated that the problem with "stun weapons" is that because they did no (well, rare... well, pretty rare, anyway) lasting harm, police and authorities would use them with greater impunity. Hey, why not shock a demonstrator or two? No permanent damage, and it's humane!
Of course, you probably didn't mean to imply that execution is humane, just that inert gas asphyxiation is a better way to go than a bullet or the chair, and that's gotta be true. Still... I think it's better not to attach the words. Execution may be necessary sometimes... but let's never fool ourselves about what it is.
Mom says I learned to read when she tape-recorded herself reading my favorite spiderman book. After reading and re-reading it as only obsessive children can, I could read.
It's the content, not the medium.... : )
it'll probably make you grow horns or something
Or you could become a Mormon, like me.... : )