So I guess the truth is that prices would not really skyrocket. We would just start importing more food. But I dont really think that anyone (inside the US) wants that to happen. Why? Is the Canadian FDA less strict? I think i would have heard about that during the calls to reimport drugs from Canada if true.
One of the common complaints I hear about the OLPC from missionaries claiming to be more in touch with African life than engineers is that the cell phone has already come in strong. Cell phone technology allows farmers to time the market when selling their crops, for example. Of course, you have to have something worth investing in a cell phone before it's something you can expect to see pervasive.
The DS does have several shortfalls, even if you're willing to assume that third world computing may appear in vastly different forms than we are familiar with:
* The screen is only barely readable in sunlight, and the battery lasts for shorter time frames. The OLPC project actually solved this. * It has wifi, but a very weak one that needs a VERY solid infrastructure surrounding it to pull off. The OLPC's network is ad-hoc, meaning the device itself can form the infrastructure in places without any. * It needs more RAM. Something you can probably address in a customized device, but it'll raise the price. * To go along with that, it has no MMU. Meaning that any one crash can take out the whole thing. It's likely also missing operating system support opcodes to secure the thing. In essence, you will be running as root, at all times and everywhere. * It lacks any standard adapters, like USB or even a damn microphone jack. * Having only 1 touch screen severely cripples usability in normal apps, so you have to put a lot of legwork there, both in thinking about the interface and in writing new and existing apps to use it.
But there are a few benefits: * Despite critics saying the screen is too small for things like WWW browsing to amazon.com or Wikipedia (they're right), most internet resources require proficiency in English, or a translation. If you go to the trouble to make a mobile viewable website you might as well translate it into a few local languages while you're at it. It may well be that the Web concept is abandoned in favor of publishing data via xml, or maybe web services style. But the DS and other mobile devices can rarely handle the drop in efficiency Javascript implies. * Handwriting is probably better in regions with several spoken and written languages than printed keyboards. Certainly better in places without small alphabets.
Yes, but the difference is that we're not limiting the people viewing the pictures to Jane Goodall. That's the social point here -- getting the data is tricky, but sifting through it is simple enough. That's why many scientists guard their data carefully before publication I suppose; they don't want someone else beating them to the discoveries.
There are ways to provide answers files for group installs, in case the question level "default" isn't enough for you. There's only a handful of packages that run questions at the default level. It's not well documented of course.
It wouldn't matter. At some point, email is transmitted in the clear. Either you trust Google or you don't. If you don't trust Google, they're receiving all your mail in the clear, so they're already capable of violating your "privacy". If you do trust them and still want your data encrypted, you're not getting much benefit -- the data still goes to recipients in the clear, and they can still receive copies.
You're probably better off with thunderbird or evolution or something and gmail IMAP, where you can store private keys safely for decryption without Google having access.
WPA is stronger encryption, but this does cut both ways. The only thing I own that only supports WEP is the DS, which I suspect was a battery life decision, as it also only runs at 2Mbps and a rather weak signal.
As for horse urine, I have no clue what you are talking about. Never had the urge, sorry. That's the point, people. Nobody's free will is absconded by a substance's lack of addictive properties.
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Youtube requires you hold copyright on all uploaded material. Not that anyone heeds the rule, but some people are pissed and there's no reason to require a student to lie to people during their studies.
Addiction is a terrible thing. New treatments should not be interpreted as a slander to any accomplishments you may have made, but as a celebration of the victory over flaws within the human condition. The addictive power of drugs like Cocaine subvert the normal intelligent decision making we like to ascribe to others. The trial is not over, and its long term effects are not yet known.
Nobody complains that horse urine addictions are too easy to kick and remove meaningful decisions from lives.
Pretty much no, they haven't released anything relevant to 3d. The 900 pages was perhaps a useful cross indexed reference to 2d display, but I have not seen anything referencing useful things like textures or geometry. The drivers the GP mentioned were done without aid of recent documentation.
PackageKit (slated for Fedora 9 it seems) and codecBuddy are based on the ideas first implemented in Ubuntu under the spec Easy Codec Installation, intended to generalize the idea. Redhat does great work, no doubt. ConsoleKit, Network Manager, etc, and I hope they can fix up Network Manager to have system-wide, user independent connection settings.
But lets not just up and declare that Ubuntu just steals credit. I don't think anyone is saying that Ubuntu wrote codec Buddy, but the features are similar enough.
Which is bunk -- the human genome and most every genomic research grant requires disclosure of data, and the software tools themselves are almost always open source (though rarely Free). What the author somehow misses is that the difference isn't open source vs closed, it's academic versus commercial. Of course there's no popular experiments! Experimental software projects don't care about being popular, they care about demonstrating a concept or viability. In contrast, commercial systems don't care about experimentation, they care about getting useful software and tools to people.
After working for a semester with Biology students on the genomic subjects, as a CS student I found the disclosure practices saddening. What the author defends as some sort of necessary isolation to produce results is in fact motivated from a fear, that someone else will use their data to find new information before they do. This hoarding is actually harming research, not helping produce innovative results. BLAST is a tool to search proteins for similar proteins across genomes. You can take an unidentified protein, "synthetic" or not, and BLAST to take a guess at what it's capable of by looking at the known functions in organisms of similar proteins. Withholding raw data reduces the grasp of the search, and delays the publication of what I can only assume are low lying fruit, if people are truly afraid of data snipers in the six months between data collection and publication of real results.
Also, this idea that the iPhone is an innovation could only have been made in isolation ignores OpenMoko.
Punative damages aren't from anticipatory value in resale. As the name suggest, they're a punishment. The idea is that they act as an extra deterrent to fraud, or whatever the crime is.
Indeed, one of the Tianamen protest causes was public perception that foreign laborers were earning more than their local counterparts. I find it funny, as I hear the exact opposite complaint where I live.
I thank both you and the grandparent for the insight. I'd read the Court's opinion in the past, and surrounding commentary suggested the wheat could not have been as truly intended. It's not clear whether the feed is intended for livestock or not, but it seems at least possible, to me now.
From a historical perspective, this ruling came down during the Great Depression, where social needs were far different, and it was believed that the old ways were failing. A lot of FDR's programs were struck by the court until he appointed more sympathetic judges. If the problem is simply a matter of Constitutionality, I can't see how you'd make a price support law (something I think we can agree falls under the commerce clause) without the commerce clause as interpreted in Wickard v. Filburn. Otherwise, two things would happen: many people would grow for themselves, further pushing the price down, and large corporations would simply declare that the millions of acres are farmed in support of other activities and therefore aren't subject to regulation, even though the purpose of a corporation is to engage in commerce. To rephrase the GP's post, it's not an extra 2000 dollars of wheat on trial, it's an extra amount of wheat so large as to distort the price of wheat itself.
Also note that 2000 dollars in 1942 would be around 25 thousand inflation adjusted dollars today. But justice isn't about the money at stake.
Of course, that whole "for your own farm" thing was completely bogus. There's no way a prudent man would have grown all that food was grown simply for livestock. I'm not sure why they went with the secondary effect ruling. Perhaps they were bored and wanted a challenge?
This goes against all the reporting and comments I've read on the matter. Do you have a citation? Because AFIAK, you can prohibit trade on moral grounds, but you can't discriminate like the US is claimed to do by banning gambling from overseas sites. Basically, having their cake and eating it too.
Every time someone says, "the government should regulate/make a law/fund everything/give me healthcare" that person advocates for a larger government. Skateboarding isn't a crime until a gov't bean counter realizes that skateboarders take a larger share of socialized healthcare resources....etc. Which is unlike today's society where skateboarding in public is virtually a crime because private insurance company bean counters realize that skateboarders (or those heel skate shoes) are injured more frequently than pedestrians, how exactly? The problems that exist in big government don't disappear with big business. At this point, I'm not sure whether these problems are a consequence of bigness or simply a property of modern society. Those truly worthy are the small organizations with an idea and an appetite for risk, be they academic, non-profit, or even for profit. A big business is simply unable to stake its entire existence on an equally big risk. Apparently what they've earned through the years is not a profit, but a guaranteed existence as a "going concern".
All the crap Pythonites love to boast about and almost universally faster. I'd be careful using the Shootout as a reference though, as not every language gets the love it needs to get a fair shake in such comparisons. In the Python case, Regex DNA has seen some serious love that picked the best concepts from the other implementations in the pursuit of speed. Its place in the ranking is likely not a matter of libraries, as it uses the same libs as the other one.
Note that duck typing restricts the compiler from assuming a function can only take a specific type of object, requiring access to all members and methods of all objects to do a type check first. I like OCaml's typing system for being quite specific, and concise. A tree can be defined thusly in Ocaml:
type tree = Leaf | Node of tree * tree;
Of course, you're missing operations on it, and Objective Caml naturally provides OO ways of doing things. But I've never heavily researched the subject. As I once read and believe, most every pattern in the GoF is trivially obvious in a functional language. I'm also fairly sure they're much simpler to read and write in a functional language.
The people I meet complaining about taxes and social programs aren't worried about their mortgage or light bills. They're worried about paying the mortgage on the investment property they bought but can't find a tenant for. I have a hard time feeling sorry for these folks. Buying a house and then not putting even the minimal amount of effort into it doesn't evoke pity. And I'm certainly willing to risk the chance that an idiot finds it harder to make millions being a bad landlord.
I don't really see a paradigm shift here among OEM's and what's still often a grass roots movement of Linux (noticeable especially when Ubuntu of all distros is the most popular on desktops, and not Novell's distro, etc). Would Linux be less grassroots if the most popular distro were openSUSE, a grassroots encouraged branch of the SUSE distro that Novell purchased? For that matter, is Ubuntu all that grassroots when ultimately run by a millionaire's new startup?
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One of the common complaints I hear about the OLPC from missionaries claiming to be more in touch with African life than engineers is that the cell phone has already come in strong. Cell phone technology allows farmers to time the market when selling their crops, for example. Of course, you have to have something worth investing in a cell phone before it's something you can expect to see pervasive.
The DS does have several shortfalls, even if you're willing to assume that third world computing may appear in vastly different forms than we are familiar with:
* The screen is only barely readable in sunlight, and the battery lasts for shorter time frames. The OLPC project actually solved this.
* It has wifi, but a very weak one that needs a VERY solid infrastructure surrounding it to pull off. The OLPC's network is ad-hoc, meaning the device itself can form the infrastructure in places without any.
* It needs more RAM. Something you can probably address in a customized device, but it'll raise the price.
* To go along with that, it has no MMU. Meaning that any one crash can take out the whole thing. It's likely also missing operating system support opcodes to secure the thing. In essence, you will be running as root, at all times and everywhere.
* It lacks any standard adapters, like USB or even a damn microphone jack.
* Having only 1 touch screen severely cripples usability in normal apps, so you have to put a lot of legwork there, both in thinking about the interface and in writing new and existing apps to use it.
But there are a few benefits:
* Despite critics saying the screen is too small for things like WWW browsing to amazon.com or Wikipedia (they're right), most internet resources require proficiency in English, or a translation. If you go to the trouble to make a mobile viewable website you might as well translate it into a few local languages while you're at it. It may well be that the Web concept is abandoned in favor of publishing data via xml, or maybe web services style. But the DS and other mobile devices can rarely handle the drop in efficiency Javascript implies.
* Handwriting is probably better in regions with several spoken and written languages than printed keyboards. Certainly better in places without small alphabets.
You don't need a degree in Molecular Biology to figure out that the human body obeys the laws of thermo dynamics.
Yes, but the difference is that we're not limiting the people viewing the pictures to Jane Goodall. That's the social point here -- getting the data is tricky, but sifting through it is simple enough. That's why many scientists guard their data carefully before publication I suppose; they don't want someone else beating them to the discoveries.
There are ways to provide answers files for group installs, in case the question level "default" isn't enough for you. There's only a handful of packages that run questions at the default level. It's not well documented of course.
It wouldn't matter. At some point, email is transmitted in the clear. Either you trust Google or you don't. If you don't trust Google, they're receiving all your mail in the clear, so they're already capable of violating your "privacy". If you do trust them and still want your data encrypted, you're not getting much benefit -- the data still goes to recipients in the clear, and they can still receive copies.
You're probably better off with thunderbird or evolution or something and gmail IMAP, where you can store private keys safely for decryption without Google having access.
WPA is stronger encryption, but this does cut both ways. The only thing I own that only supports WEP is the DS, which I suspect was a battery life decision, as it also only runs at 2Mbps and a rather weak signal.
Youtube requires you hold copyright on all uploaded material. Not that anyone heeds the rule, but some people are pissed and there's no reason to require a student to lie to people during their studies.
Are these terrorists or supervillians?
Addiction is a terrible thing. New treatments should not be interpreted as a slander to any accomplishments you may have made, but as a celebration of the victory over flaws within the human condition. The addictive power of drugs like Cocaine subvert the normal intelligent decision making we like to ascribe to others. The trial is not over, and its long term effects are not yet known.
Nobody complains that horse urine addictions are too easy to kick and remove meaningful decisions from lives.
Pretty much no, they haven't released anything relevant to 3d. The 900 pages was perhaps a useful cross indexed reference to 2d display, but I have not seen anything referencing useful things like textures or geometry. The drivers the GP mentioned were done without aid of recent documentation.
I hope your cell walls are padded.
PackageKit (slated for Fedora 9 it seems) and codecBuddy are based on the ideas first implemented in Ubuntu under the spec Easy Codec Installation, intended to generalize the idea. Redhat does great work, no doubt. ConsoleKit, Network Manager, etc, and I hope they can fix up Network Manager to have system-wide, user independent connection settings.
But lets not just up and declare that Ubuntu just steals credit. I don't think anyone is saying that Ubuntu wrote codec Buddy, but the features are similar enough.
Which is bunk -- the human genome and most every genomic research grant requires disclosure of data, and the software tools themselves are almost always open source (though rarely Free). What the author somehow misses is that the difference isn't open source vs closed, it's academic versus commercial. Of course there's no popular experiments! Experimental software projects don't care about being popular, they care about demonstrating a concept or viability. In contrast, commercial systems don't care about experimentation, they care about getting useful software and tools to people.
After working for a semester with Biology students on the genomic subjects, as a CS student I found the disclosure practices saddening. What the author defends as some sort of necessary isolation to produce results is in fact motivated from a fear, that someone else will use their data to find new information before they do. This hoarding is actually harming research, not helping produce innovative results. BLAST is a tool to search proteins for similar proteins across genomes. You can take an unidentified protein, "synthetic" or not, and BLAST to take a guess at what it's capable of by looking at the known functions in organisms of similar proteins. Withholding raw data reduces the grasp of the search, and delays the publication of what I can only assume are low lying fruit, if people are truly afraid of data snipers in the six months between data collection and publication of real results.
Also, this idea that the iPhone is an innovation could only have been made in isolation ignores OpenMoko.
Punative damages aren't from anticipatory value in resale. As the name suggest, they're a punishment. The idea is that they act as an extra deterrent to fraud, or whatever the crime is.
To be fair, I think if someone proposed an elimination of 4chan, nobody'd be crying "Oppression!"
Indeed, one of the Tianamen protest causes was public perception that foreign laborers were earning more than their local counterparts. I find it funny, as I hear the exact opposite complaint where I live.
I thank both you and the grandparent for the insight. I'd read the Court's opinion in the past, and surrounding commentary suggested the wheat could not have been as truly intended. It's not clear whether the feed is intended for livestock or not, but it seems at least possible, to me now.
From a historical perspective, this ruling came down during the Great Depression, where social needs were far different, and it was believed that the old ways were failing. A lot of FDR's programs were struck by the court until he appointed more sympathetic judges. If the problem is simply a matter of Constitutionality, I can't see how you'd make a price support law (something I think we can agree falls under the commerce clause) without the commerce clause as interpreted in Wickard v. Filburn. Otherwise, two things would happen: many people would grow for themselves, further pushing the price down, and large corporations would simply declare that the millions of acres are farmed in support of other activities and therefore aren't subject to regulation, even though the purpose of a corporation is to engage in commerce. To rephrase the GP's post, it's not an extra 2000 dollars of wheat on trial, it's an extra amount of wheat so large as to distort the price of wheat itself.
Also note that 2000 dollars in 1942 would be around 25 thousand inflation adjusted dollars today. But justice isn't about the money at stake.
Of course, that whole "for your own farm" thing was completely bogus. There's no way a prudent man would have grown all that food was grown simply for livestock. I'm not sure why they went with the secondary effect ruling. Perhaps they were bored and wanted a challenge?
This goes against all the reporting and comments I've read on the matter. Do you have a citation? Because AFIAK, you can prohibit trade on moral grounds, but you can't discriminate like the US is claimed to do by banning gambling from overseas sites. Basically, having their cake and eating it too.
Comparing to PHP is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Try this one on for size.
All the crap Pythonites love to boast about and almost universally faster. I'd be careful using the Shootout as a reference though, as not every language gets the love it needs to get a fair shake in such comparisons. In the Python case, Regex DNA has seen some serious love that picked the best concepts from the other implementations in the pursuit of speed. Its place in the ranking is likely not a matter of libraries, as it uses the same libs as the other one.
Note that duck typing restricts the compiler from assuming a function can only take a specific type of object, requiring access to all members and methods of all objects to do a type check first. I like OCaml's typing system for being quite specific, and concise. A tree can be defined thusly in Ocaml:
type tree = Leaf | Node of tree * tree;
Of course, you're missing operations on it, and Objective Caml naturally provides OO ways of doing things. But I've never heavily researched the subject. As I once read and believe, most every pattern in the GoF is trivially obvious in a functional language. I'm also fairly sure they're much simpler to read and write in a functional language.
The people I meet complaining about taxes and social programs aren't worried about their mortgage or light bills. They're worried about paying the mortgage on the investment property they bought but can't find a tenant for. I have a hard time feeling sorry for these folks. Buying a house and then not putting even the minimal amount of effort into it doesn't evoke pity. And I'm certainly willing to risk the chance that an idiot finds it harder to make millions being a bad landlord.