You gotta love the way ESR goes out of his way to use HTML that won't render properly in IE. Such an amusing trait is bound to endear him and his message to the uncoverted.
Economics isn't just a philosophy... it's a mathematical description of reality.
It may be a mathematical description of human behavior for people whose most important value is greed, at the expense of all other social and environmental concerns.
While that may describe life in Western society, it's a long way from reality. Economics is actually an umbrella covering a range of differing socio-economic theories (including that "inefficient" Communism), none of which can claim to be "reality".
Nah, six months is too long. Give them 30 seconds, that sounds about right!
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some nonsense about the US being corrupt
having lived in your country for the better part of a decade, I can say that your democracy work very well on the local level. On the national level, the fact that your "representitives" have to pawn themselves to the rich in order to to get elected means they are not your representitives, they represent the interests of those they are indebted too.
As to the whether the TV tax is a bad thing - it only affects those who want to watch TV. There are capitalist alternatives - for example HBO, as previously stated. But PSB is laughable by comparison with the BBC, and their anual pledge drive is a sad reflection on on how much you care about helping the less well off in your society. Yes there are commercial educational channels, but they are not available if you can't afford cable. I still say the BBC represents good value for British society.
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This is like talking to a wall
Wall? Meet hand, you're bound to get along.
Are you one of those perverts who actually likes commercials? Or a preacher for "the one true faith" of capitalism?
Personally I just HATE commercials, and am happy to pay for them to go away. When you do, it often has this strage side effect of improving the quality of TV. Something to do with program makers not having to suck up to commercial interests.
A shame the US government doesn't learn the same lesson - the only first world country where bribery and corruption are so imbedded in the political process that it is considered acceptable.
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Am I forced to buy the products advertised on the TV shows I watch?
Do you make a effort to avoid products that are advertised on TV? If not, then you pay. You are stuck with the watching (or trying to avoid watching) the commercial, which is interrupting what you do want to watch.
I lived in the US for while, and I would rarely watch a whole show, because as soon as the commercials came on, I would would channel surf. The only channels that were bearable were the HBO ones (commercial free!), that cost how much? $15 or $20 per month?
sadly it was only avaiable for Win 3.1:( It came with the "Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time" game CD. Damn that was cool!
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Not strictly true - if you buy any product that is is advertised on TV, the advertising budget is factored into the price of that product. And when you think how much you spend each year on such products, the TV license is probably a pretty good deal.
Anyone owning a TV capable of recieving terrestrial BBC transmissions (Almost everyone here) must pay for a Television License
Not quite sure how that plays out in the Republic of Ireland, where many folk receive the BBC. Of course Ireland has its own public broadcast channels (which also carry commercials due to some twisted Irish logic).
I suspect your statement needs the addendum "if they live in the United Queendom".
but i don't like infrastructes such as water,power , telephone lines and hospitals privatised
I can't speak for the last two, but I do know that with water, power and the railways, before they were privatised, sucessive governments regarded skipping on infrastructure investment as an easy way to save money. Sure the regulators could tell them off, but if the investment wasn't forthcoming, there was nothing being done. By removing these industries from the government teat, and by enforcing the regulations on the new private owners, the infrastructure is only now beginning to come up to the required standards. Sure it may end up costing more, but its a far better situation than waiting for unmaintained infrastructure the collapse.
I've been a happy MyIE/Maxthon user for a couple of years now - and yes, it has effective ad-blocking.
It also has the advantage of being a Windows "native" - the interface for Firefox looks a little amateur by comparison, aside from its resource hogging.
Other sources believe it may be due to the current instability in the earth's magnetic field, which also suggests that this field may be undergoing a N/S flip, which has not occured for about 700,000 years, although fossil records suggest the average is aroung 200,000 to 300,000 years. These flips can take hundreds of years to actually occur, during which time the magentic field remains unstable, and can lead to increased radiation reaching the planet surface.
I would not read too much into current melting of glaciers, they fluctuate too wildly from decade to decade, let alone over the centuries, to be a reliable measure.
Sorry I have no sources to quote, these ideas showed up in recent TV programs, so I can't claim infallabilty. I am sympathetic the ecological message, but their theories are conjecture for the most part.
Hiding a patent and springing it on people later is just plain evil. Wise users will destroy any company doing such a thing, and salt the earth where the corporate headquarters once stood. The damage to everyone, developer and user alike, is simply unacceptable.
I used to share an apartment with some who wrote music based on dice rolls. Most of it would drive you insane (or force you to escape to the pub). Even Britany Spear's worst output would sound pleasant by comparison.
I am of the opinion that all CS degrees should start with a thorough grounding in assembler, which hopefully would deter a lot of the "logically-challenged" programmers;P
I am not convinced that OOP made development any quicker, since taken to it's logical extreme it made some simple things more complex, or even illegal. For instance global variables - useful in professional hands, dangerous in amateur ones. Similar to the "GO TO considered evil" over-reation of a earlier period.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not opposed to OOP where appropriate, just the "one size fits all" approach of it's evangelists.
object oriented programing and languages like objective-c are newer concepts
Object orientation did not add any functionality to existing programming, it formalised what had been some existing "best practice" programming styles, and "outlawed" some sloppy programming styles. While clarifying some processes, it also made others more complex. Most competent programmers didn't have too much trouble making the transition.
But without Government, the monopolies hire private armies to enforce their will. Nice as the idea of anarcho-sydicalism may be, I suspect they are not particulary realistic.
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Honestly, I don't see why MS would add this feature
Because they want to cripples the sales of IBM's VMWare. It's the same tactics they pull on all their competitors.
You gotta love the way ESR goes out of his way to use HTML that won't render properly in IE. Such an amusing trait is bound to endear him and his message to the uncoverted.
Yeah, looks really useful for those who use a helicopter to get downtown.
Economics isn't just a philosophy... it's a mathematical description of reality.
It may be a mathematical description of human behavior for people whose most important value is greed, at the expense of all other social and environmental concerns.
While that may describe life in Western society, it's a long way from reality. Economics is actually an umbrella covering a range of differing socio-economic theories (including that "inefficient" Communism), none of which can claim to be "reality".
Nah, six months is too long. Give them 30 seconds, that sounds about right!
some nonsense about the US being corrupt
having lived in your country for the better part of a decade, I can say that your democracy work very well on the local level. On the national level, the fact that your "representitives" have to pawn themselves to the rich in order to to get elected means they are not your representitives, they represent the interests of those they are indebted too.
As to the whether the TV tax is a bad thing - it only affects those who want to watch TV. There are capitalist alternatives - for example HBO, as previously stated. But PSB is laughable by comparison with the BBC, and their anual pledge drive is a sad reflection on on how much you care about helping the less well off in your society. Yes there are commercial educational channels, but they are not available if you can't afford cable. I still say the BBC represents good value for British society.
This is like talking to a wall
Wall? Meet hand, you're bound to get along.
Are you one of those perverts who actually likes commercials?
Or a preacher for "the one true faith" of capitalism?
Personally I just HATE commercials, and am happy to pay for them to go away. When you do, it often has this strage side effect of improving the quality of TV. Something to do with program makers not having to suck up to commercial interests.
A shame the US government doesn't learn the same lesson - the only first world country where bribery and corruption are so imbedded in the political process that it is considered acceptable.
Am I forced to buy the products advertised on the TV shows I watch?
Do you make a effort to avoid products that are advertised on TV? If not, then you pay. You are stuck with the watching (or trying to avoid watching) the commercial, which is interrupting what you do want to watch.
I lived in the US for while, and I would rarely watch a whole show, because as soon as the commercials came on, I would would channel surf. The only channels that were bearable were the HBO ones (commercial free!), that cost how much? $15 or $20 per month?
sadly it was only avaiable for Win 3.1 :(
It came with the "Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time" game CD. Damn that was cool!
Not strictly true - if you buy any product that is is advertised on TV, the advertising budget is factored into the price of that product. And when you think how much you spend each year on such products, the TV license is probably a pretty good deal.
Anyone owning a TV capable of recieving terrestrial BBC transmissions (Almost everyone here) must pay for a Television License
Not quite sure how that plays out in the Republic of Ireland, where many folk receive the BBC. Of course Ireland has its own public broadcast channels (which also carry commercials due to some twisted Irish logic).
I suspect your statement needs the addendum "if they live in the United Queendom".
and don't forget to pee in the bottle.
hehe, reminds me of my favourite Aussie joke about Brits (I'm a Brit btw):
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Q: how can you tell when a plane full of Brits has just landed ay Sydney airport?
A: you can still hear the whine after the engines have stopped...
sounds like this guy has settled in nicely
but i don't like infrastructes such as water ,power , telephone lines and hospitals privatised
I can't speak for the last two, but I do know that with water, power and the railways, before they were privatised, sucessive governments regarded skipping on infrastructure investment as an easy way to save money. Sure the regulators could tell them off, but if the investment wasn't forthcoming, there was nothing being done. By removing these industries from the government teat, and by enforcing the regulations on the new private owners, the infrastructure is only now beginning to come up to the required standards. Sure it may end up costing more, but its a far better situation than waiting for unmaintained infrastructure the collapse.
I've been a happy MyIE/Maxthon user for a couple of years now - and yes, it has effective ad-blocking.
It also has the advantage of being a Windows "native" - the interface for Firefox looks a little amateur by comparison, aside from its resource hogging.
Other sources believe it may be due to the current instability in the earth's magnetic field, which also suggests that this field may be undergoing a N/S flip, which has not occured for about 700,000 years, although fossil records suggest the average is aroung 200,000 to 300,000 years. These flips can take hundreds of years to actually occur, during which time the magentic field remains unstable, and can lead to increased radiation reaching the planet surface.
I would not read too much into current melting of glaciers, they fluctuate too wildly from decade to decade, let alone over the centuries, to be a reliable measure.
Sorry I have no sources to quote, these ideas showed up in recent TV programs, so I can't claim infallabilty. I am sympathetic the ecological message, but their theories are conjecture for the most part.
puts no stake in Freud
If I put the stake in Freud, will you swing the hammer?
It may even have something to do with Douglas' own life - when he wrote the original, he was single, when he wrote the movie he was happily married...
...not to mention "loading the dice" on battle calculations, and seeing your units it should not be able to.
A.I. stands for Artificial Idiot.
Tucked away towards the end of the article:
Hiding a patent and springing it on people later is just plain evil. Wise users will destroy any company doing such a thing, and salt the earth where the corporate headquarters once stood. The damage to everyone, developer and user alike, is simply unacceptable.
I used to share an apartment with some who wrote music based on dice rolls. Most of it would drive you insane (or force you to escape to the pub). Even Britany Spear's worst output would sound pleasant by comparison.
I am of the opinion that all CS degrees should start with a thorough grounding in assembler, which hopefully would deter a lot of the "logically-challenged" programmers ;P
I am not convinced that OOP made development any quicker, since taken to it's logical extreme it made some simple things more complex, or even illegal. For instance global variables - useful in professional hands, dangerous in amateur ones. Similar to the "GO TO considered evil" over-reation of a earlier period.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not opposed to OOP where appropriate, just the "one size fits all" approach of it's evangelists.
But did it suddenly allow you to do anything that could not be done before? I think not.
And you know where you can stick your "paradigm shift". In your marketing literature, where it belongs.
object oriented programing and languages like objective-c are newer concepts
Object orientation did not add any functionality to existing programming, it formalised what had been some existing "best practice" programming styles, and "outlawed" some sloppy programming styles. While clarifying some processes, it also made others more complex. Most competent programmers didn't have too much trouble making the transition.
But without Government, the monopolies hire private armies to enforce their will. Nice as the idea of anarcho-sydicalism may be, I suspect they are not particulary realistic.