The problem with convincing people to use open source software is that when they hear "you can't do that" they say "Oh. Darn" and go on with their life. When they hear "you have to learn more to do that" they throw a temper tantrum then throw the computer out the window.
Short-sightedness is prevalent everywhere. From 30 year olds who figure they'll start saving for retirement "later" to corporations chopping off R&D for the next quarterly report, to the elected government officials looking only towards the next election cycle.
It would be nice to do something to get the government to lead the way, but I'm too busy procrastinating opening that IRA I've been meaning to for a couple of years now.
Simply saying "research and reporting" isn't quite enough, there should be logical and very simple standards. Should anonymous sources be protected if they are lying? For example Wen Ho Lee, who was arrested due to an article written in the New York Times based on information given by an anonymous informant, only to find out that nothing had even happened... are lies "news" (hm, what about reporting about lies)? Or on a less tinfoil-hat conspirational note, I'm sure that tabloid staff members put a lot of research into "Woman gives birth to baby boy with face of Jesus tattoed on his back and who can fart Ave Maria", but is that "news"?
Personally, I think we're trying to define the wrong thing here. Journalism already has a perfectly good definition that's been pasted into slashdot several times by other people now.
Instead, let's define news. Perhaps shield laws should protect those who report news regardless of whether they are a blogger or a journalist or some crazy guy who stands on the street corner handing out flyers.
These days thats all there is, since MTV doesn't have time for much else, but if you look back... I'd pay $2 for New Order's True Faith video (possibly the most bizarre one I've ever seen outside of Asia, and if you've got stranger I'll take recommendations) or for Alien Ant Farm's version of Smooth Criminal.
I guess China and India could team up and tell us all what we should read. Sound good to you?
Again with "good"!
Does it sound like something I want to happen? Hell no. But if the whole world got together and had a giant vote, and managed to pull it off without corruption, the outcome would be democratic and that was my point. Democracy is not a magic bullet against evil, it just makes sure that evil has to win the majority of votes.
free speech (I assume we're excepting yelling "Fire" in a crewded theatre and such) is not necessarily a good thing?
Grandparent made no judgement of goodness or badness, only pointed out that if a majority of the people wanted it done and it was therefore done, it was a democratic process.
Without the UN who would rape the children and steal oil-for-food money?
How about "if the product is being produced, it it's productive"
2. Medicine takes more than that to get to the market.
Unless all those tests are actually done with sugar pills, see #1.
3. More taxes? Nice....
If you're going to have Big Daddy Government step in to create an artificial monopoly just for you, you should pay for the service. Unlike all the other taxes everyone has to pay for things they don't use, this is money changing hands specifically for a particular service.
What google should do then is beat the RIAA at their own game.
Start by charging people an extra "RIAA Advertisement Fee" to run an ad on "Madonna" or the like. This money goes into a big pool. Then, from that pool, make up a list of services and subtract out 90% of the money for things like "fiscal management" "trademark research" "artist contact costs" or anything else that sounds good but is total contractually-agreed-to bullshit.
Because the economics of the industry has failed to fix the dead zones or convice carriers to allow people to use any phone they want with any carrier that it's compatible with. We pay universal access fees to promote network development yet that money seems to go into a big black hole, or a CEO's bank account, whichever is available.
Tried to set one up the other day...
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but the only IP address it would let me use was the broadcast address!
Thank you, thank you, and be sure to try the veal.
One after another, when a company changes its site of production or sourcing to China, the quality crashes.
Probably because they said "Here, make this widget as cheaply as you can". If you're going to outsource to China, your business is certainly not operating in the "lets spend any more money than we need to" mode.
What if they do overtake everyone else? Maybe it won't be 30 years, maybe it won't be at 11% growth. Even so, it might happen. What's our plan for that, do we even have one?
Welcome to Tortoise vs. Hare, round 2, and this time around the Hare is narcoleptic.
So try "Would you like to register this database with the other office tools so that it can be used as a data source for templates and mail merge or whatever?"
Just because they can't call it "OpenOffice" doesn't mean they should use "OpenOffice.org" everywhere.
Would the EU and others try to take over the root servers by force (hacking their way in)?
Hacking? Force?
The only reason the root servers are the root servers is because everyone queries them. If the EU or the UN wanted to "take over", all they have to do is establish new servers and ask the ISPs to reconfigure so that all queries go to the new servers and the international registrars to provide updates on domains. No hacking involved, and no american needs to be "forced" to do anything.
The US will probably have a number of ISPs refer.xx country code requests to the international root servers if they want to properly resolve those, and the international root servers will probably refer.everythingelse to the American root, if they want to properly resolve those.
The internet will see that as damage and route around it.
Routing around it requires wires. Cogent and Level 3 just took their wires and went home. If enough companies do the same, there won't be any wires left. If you think your bandwidth is expensive now, just wait until you (or your ISP, who will pass the charges on to you) have to subscribe to Sprint, UUnet, Level3, Cogent, Qwest and so on... individually.
If this keeps up, I'll just move my company to South Korea, where we just have to worry about being nuked, not about whether half our customers will suddenly disappear off the face of the internet.
Actually, something close could be achieved in 7.4 (and earlier versions probably, I'm not sure where they began allowing partial indexes) where one could CREATE INDEX bigfattable200510 ON bigfattable(stamp) WHERE stamp>='2005-10-1 00:00' AND stamp'2005-11-1 00:00'; which would create an index covering only those dates.
You'd still have to delete the records (and indexes) yourself though.
So use those political boundaries. Google should have a pretty good grasp of the Chinese address space, so serve up a map to Chinese people showing Taiwan the way the Chinese want to see it, and show Taiwan the map they want to see.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics, all rolled up in one.
First off, the poverty rate: Look at page 18 of this pdf. The highlights of increasing poverty for 2003-2004 are telling, but the "damned lies" comes in when you look at the government's own graph at the bottom of the page. After a peak in 1993 or so, the official poverty rate declined until you reach 2000, where it began climbing again. While it's tempting to claim the.com boom caused all of this, I would suspect that 1) the people clawing their way out of poverty were not the dotcommers and 2) and even if some rags-to-riches, or even rags-to-not-poor stories did occur in the tech world, that they didn't account for the nearly 10 million person decline in poor people in the Clinton era.
I have no idea where O'Reilly pulled those poverty numbers, but he can go ahead and stick them right back.
The funny thing is, I've never seen the words "poverty entitlements" used to describe aid to the poor before, and with it being 12-14 percent of the budget, it has to have appeared even on those simplistic pie charts showing where my dollar goes.
So what makes up this "poverty entitlement" that is sucking up an "record shattering" portion of our budget? The only thing I can get from googling for it is blogs from even more pundits claiming that this demonstrates that the conservatives do have some compassion after all. No line items match on the 2006 budget propsal, so if you've got something else that adds up to 368 billion dollars, let us know.
hm, might be interesting (read exciting but not necessarially useful) to implement this in some sort of really huge circular buffer, where old files are simply overwritten when their time is up.
Her arguments in the Microsoft case are well played... for a lawyer. She insisted that every owner of MS DOS 6.0 could not be a member of the class action suit because not all of them had used the compression feature.
Of course, she neglected to mention to the court that at any time in the future, any of those not currently using the compression feature could have found themselves low on drive space and turned on the compression, so a free upgrade for those other users would have prevented the damage from taking place.
Hard to say whether taking action to prevent future damages should be taken into account, though. Criminal law here relies on "innocent until proven guilty", however American civil law only requires "eh, good enough" in order to get a judgement.
I think I finally understand why so many poor living in slums manage to scrape together enough for a TV and cable. Forget the old adage about religion, the television is the new opiate of the masses.
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The problem with convincing people to use open source software is that when they hear "you can't do that" they say "Oh. Darn" and go on with their life. When they hear "you have to learn more to do that" they throw a temper tantrum then throw the computer out the window.
Short-sightedness is prevalent everywhere. From 30 year olds who figure they'll start saving for retirement "later" to corporations chopping off R&D for the next quarterly report, to the elected government officials looking only towards the next election cycle.
It would be nice to do something to get the government to lead the way, but I'm too busy procrastinating opening that IRA I've been meaning to for a couple of years now.
Simply saying "research and reporting" isn't quite enough, there should be logical and very simple standards. Should anonymous sources be protected if they are lying? For example Wen Ho Lee, who was arrested due to an article written in the New York Times based on information given by an anonymous informant, only to find out that nothing had even happened... are lies "news" (hm, what about reporting about lies)? Or on a less tinfoil-hat conspirational note, I'm sure that tabloid staff members put a lot of research into "Woman gives birth to baby boy with face of Jesus tattoed on his back and who can fart Ave Maria", but is that "news"?
Personally, I think we're trying to define the wrong thing here. Journalism already has a perfectly good definition that's been pasted into slashdot several times by other people now.
Instead, let's define news. Perhaps shield laws should protect those who report news regardless of whether they are a blogger or a journalist or some crazy guy who stands on the street corner handing out flyers.
Music videos are commercials for albums
These days thats all there is, since MTV doesn't have time for much else, but if you look back... I'd pay $2 for New Order's True Faith video (possibly the most bizarre one I've ever seen outside of Asia, and if you've got stranger I'll take recommendations) or for Alien Ant Farm's version of Smooth Criminal.
I guess China and India could team up and tell us all what we should read. Sound good to you?
Again with "good"!
Does it sound like something I want to happen? Hell no. But if the whole world got together and had a giant vote, and managed to pull it off without corruption, the outcome would be democratic and that was my point. Democracy is not a magic bullet against evil, it just makes sure that evil has to win the majority of votes.
free speech (I assume we're excepting yelling "Fire" in a crewded theatre and such) is not necessarily a good thing?
Grandparent made no judgement of goodness or badness, only pointed out that if a majority of the people wanted it done and it was therefore done, it was a democratic process.
Without the UN who would rape the children and steal oil-for-food money?
You're right, we don't need the UN, the US has that covered already.
1. Who's definition of productive?
How about "if the product is being produced, it it's productive"
2. Medicine takes more than that to get to the market.
Unless all those tests are actually done with sugar pills, see #1.
3. More taxes? Nice....
If you're going to have Big Daddy Government step in to create an artificial monopoly just for you, you should pay for the service. Unlike all the other taxes everyone has to pay for things they don't use, this is money changing hands specifically for a particular service.
What google should do then is beat the RIAA at their own game.
Start by charging people an extra "RIAA Advertisement Fee" to run an ad on "Madonna" or the like. This money goes into a big pool. Then, from that pool, make up a list of services and subtract out 90% of the money for things like "fiscal management" "trademark research" "artist contact costs" or anything else that sounds good but is total contractually-agreed-to bullshit.
Because the economics of the industry has failed to fix the dead zones or convice carriers to allow people to use any phone they want with any carrier that it's compatible with. We pay universal access fees to promote network development yet that money seems to go into a big black hole, or a CEO's bank account, whichever is available.
but the only IP address it would let me use was the broadcast address!
Thank you, thank you, and be sure to try the veal.
One after another, when a company changes its site of production or sourcing to China, the quality crashes.
Probably because they said "Here, make this widget as cheaply as you can". If you're going to outsource to China, your business is certainly not operating in the "lets spend any more money than we need to" mode.
And why it is wrong that Murdoch should be allowed to control so much of world media
And what if you're trying to discredit Murdoch, or one of his pals?
I think you'll find that a monopolistic Press isn't as "respectable" as you'd like to believe.
Close to insane?
What if they do overtake everyone else? Maybe it won't be 30 years, maybe it won't be at 11% growth. Even so, it might happen. What's our plan for that, do we even have one?
Welcome to Tortoise vs. Hare, round 2, and this time around the Hare is narcoleptic.
So try "Would you like to register this database with the other office tools so that it can be used as a data source for templates and mail merge or whatever?"
Just because they can't call it "OpenOffice" doesn't mean they should use "OpenOffice.org" everywhere.
Would the EU and others try to take over the root servers by force (hacking their way in)?
.xx country code requests to the international root servers if they want to properly resolve those, and the international root servers will probably refer .everythingelse to the American root, if they want to properly resolve those.
Hacking? Force?
The only reason the root servers are the root servers is because everyone queries them. If the EU or the UN wanted to "take over", all they have to do is establish new servers and ask the ISPs to reconfigure so that all queries go to the new servers and the international registrars to provide updates on domains. No hacking involved, and no american needs to be "forced" to do anything.
The US will probably have a number of ISPs refer
The internet will see that as damage and route around it.
Routing around it requires wires. Cogent and Level 3 just took their wires and went home. If enough companies do the same, there won't be any wires left. If you think your bandwidth is expensive now, just wait until you (or your ISP, who will pass the charges on to you) have to subscribe to Sprint, UUnet, Level3, Cogent, Qwest and so on... individually.
If this keeps up, I'll just move my company to South Korea, where we just have to worry about being nuked, not about whether half our customers will suddenly disappear off the face of the internet.
Actually, something close could be achieved in 7.4 (and earlier versions probably, I'm not sure where they began allowing partial indexes) where one could CREATE INDEX bigfattable200510 ON bigfattable(stamp) WHERE stamp>='2005-10-1 00:00' AND stamp'2005-11-1 00:00'; which would create an index covering only those dates.
You'd still have to delete the records (and indexes) yourself though.
Political boundaries are, well, political.
So use those political boundaries. Google should have a pretty good grasp of the Chinese address space, so serve up a map to Chinese people showing Taiwan the way the Chinese want to see it, and show Taiwan the map they want to see.
Arr, dammit, the diagram I mentioned is on page 16 of the pdf, and the actual scanned in image has a different page number... how confusing!
Lies, damn lies, and statistics, all rolled up in one.
.com boom caused all of this, I would suspect that 1) the people clawing their way out of poverty were not the dotcommers and 2) and even if some rags-to-riches, or even rags-to-not-poor stories did occur in the tech world, that they didn't account for the nearly 10 million person decline in poor people in the Clinton era.
First off, the poverty rate: Look at page 18 of this pdf. The highlights of increasing poverty for 2003-2004 are telling, but the "damned lies" comes in when you look at the government's own graph at the bottom of the page. After a peak in 1993 or so, the official poverty rate declined until you reach 2000, where it began climbing again. While it's tempting to claim the
I have no idea where O'Reilly pulled those poverty numbers, but he can go ahead and stick them right back.
The funny thing is, I've never seen the words "poverty entitlements" used to describe aid to the poor before, and with it being 12-14 percent of the budget, it has to have appeared even on those simplistic pie charts showing where my dollar goes.
So what makes up this "poverty entitlement" that is sucking up an "record shattering" portion of our budget? The only thing I can get from googling for it is blogs from even more pundits claiming that this demonstrates that the conservatives do have some compassion after all. No line items match on the 2006 budget propsal, so if you've got something else that adds up to 368 billion dollars, let us know.
hm, might be interesting (read exciting but not necessarially useful) to implement this in some sort of really huge circular buffer, where old files are simply overwritten when their time is up.
Her arguments in the Microsoft case are well played... for a lawyer. She insisted that every owner of MS DOS 6.0 could not be a member of the class action suit because not all of them had used the compression feature.
Of course, she neglected to mention to the court that at any time in the future, any of those not currently using the compression feature could have found themselves low on drive space and turned on the compression, so a free upgrade for those other users would have prevented the damage from taking place.
Hard to say whether taking action to prevent future damages should be taken into account, though. Criminal law here relies on "innocent until proven guilty", however American civil law only requires "eh, good enough" in order to get a judgement.
cable
I think I finally understand why so many poor living in slums manage to scrape together enough for a TV and cable. Forget the old adage about religion, the television is the new opiate of the masses.
But what do you do when you're using, say, RAID 50? Then you have an array of RAIDs, hence RAID array ;)