I was totally in love with the BeOS back in the day. It had a slick and simple UI, a great OOP API, and some pretty brilliant developers driving it forward.
The only thing that I remember really being off-putting was that you had to maintain different builds of your software for each version of the OS. This was due to the rigid way that the C++ libraries were linked to. New versions of the framework changed the vtables or something like that, which necessitated recompiles of the application code built on top of them.
Great, I might be willing to live in a transparent society. Let's see it start at the top and then work its way down to the rest of us.
Always fight for your privacy.
Always fight for your freedom.
You may love the new administration - but operate under the assumption that an administration down the road may be even more intolerable to you than George W Bush's. That administration will then have your private information and your freedoms that you so easily give now to Obama.
blame Democrats who refuse to hold the educational hierarchy accountable for its failures and just want to throw more money at their voting block of teachers' unions. Hey, look, I can make stupid partisan commentary too!
While you're being bamboozled by politicians who own your ass, the real problems with our education system continue to go unaddressed. WAKE UP!
All our education problems in this country can be traced to lack of accountability and competition.
Lack of these things is why our elementary and high school education sucks.
Dominance of these things is why our post-high school system of universities is the best in the world.
Then again, maybe we just abdicate solving the problem to the big mail handlers like AOL, GMail, Hotmail, etc.
Eventually, almost everyone will use one of these services to filter spam. At that point, those big email carriers can work with each other to coordinate real solutions to the problem that will fix their bandwidth drains.
Since most of the spam that I get is illegal even according to the CANSPAM act, how would charging people who do illegal things (and thus be unlikely to ever pay up) help?
If your interpretation is so loose the the First Amendment gives a spammer the right to spam, then by that same logic the Second Amendment gives me the right to shoot them in the face.
Insult to them? What does that even mean? You think they're in doggy heaven looking down feeling mournful over your desire to play god?
As for people cloning, I guess if you really think the genetic make-up of a person is something worth going through the trouble of raising that person from a baby, knock yourself out.
Maybe when I die, one of my grand-kids might want to raise a clone of me... dunno. Might be what they want... might make them feel I was there again. I find strong value judgments on the idea to be superstitious and overly-emotional.
That kind of assumes your goal is to give some animal a home.
To me, that's like saying "Why go buy the new snazzy gaming computer you want when there are so many old 486's going to land fills? Why not go get a used/refurbished one to give it a desk to sit on?"
I've trained a lot of animals, mostly dogs. You know fairly quickly which ones are the smart ones and which ones are hopeless idiots. Sure, you can train the idiots - but it's a lot more work.
If there's one thing that's great about cloning - it's going to finally put this whole nature vs nurture issue in the realm of science. For things like basic animal intelligence, people will finally understand the truly overwhelming impact of nature.
My dad had a standard poodle that was friggin' brilliant. Everything we wanted to teach it only took a couple of training sessions. Best dog ever. I would take a clone of it in a heartbeat and when that one died I'd take another exactly like it.
Any dehumidifier you buy from the hardware store has a humidity detector in it so you can set it to go on only when the humidity level reaches some threshold.
For example, cd into a working copy that you've never seen before and try to determine its exact repository URL.
Is that a trick question? I always just use 'svn info'.
The full URL references can be a pain in those situations where it's required, although the concept of branches as directory copies is so beautiful that I wouldn't want to give it up for some typing convenience.
You can also eliminate the full URL references by just checking out the entire repo and using relative paths to the base of your repo.
I've got a 16GB Sansa View I bought for $199 when iPods of similar size were (I think) $50 more expensive. I wish I had bought the iPod. Sansa makes buggy products that they don't support.
The Sansa message boards have moved past anger and denial to despair that Sandisk will never fix their damned firmware.
What dealings? I don't see any reasonably-legitimate testimony that Palin did anything illegal. About the only thing I've read "first hand" was from the supposed hacker who admitted to not finding anything at all incriminating in her Yahoo mailbox.
Do you have another source? Or are you just grinding a political ax and repeating half-truths that you want to believe?
I think you're entirely correct. It's not the presence of fear, it's what in particular different groups fear.
You could also recast fear as "recognizing danger". Conservatives tend to be tuned to recognize danger to their personal being, like danger from strangers.
Liberals tend to recognize more conceptual dangers like from religion or authority.
There are likely deep genetic links to these behaviors that we won't understand for decades.
could be 25, could be never if we had sane and reasonable politicians and leaders.
We don't have these things because we don't have sane and reasonable voters/citizens. We're too fundamentally flawed on average to have those things. Barring some major taking hold of our own DNA and reprogramming ourselves or our progeny to be smarter/saner, we're doomed.
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I was totally in love with the BeOS back in the day. It had a slick and simple UI, a great OOP API, and some pretty brilliant developers driving it forward.
The only thing that I remember really being off-putting was that you had to maintain different builds of your software for each version of the OS. This was due to the rigid way that the C++ libraries were linked to. New versions of the framework changed the vtables or something like that, which necessitated recompiles of the application code built on top of them.
Does Haiku have this problem as well?
Great, I might be willing to live in a transparent society. Let's see it start at the top and then work its way down to the rest of us.
Always fight for your privacy.
Always fight for your freedom.
You may love the new administration - but operate under the assumption that an administration down the road may be even more intolerable to you than George W Bush's. That administration will then have your private information and your freedoms that you so easily give now to Obama.
or better yet..
blame Democrats who refuse to hold the educational hierarchy accountable for its failures and just want to throw more money at their voting block of teachers' unions. Hey, look, I can make stupid partisan commentary too!
While you're being bamboozled by politicians who own your ass, the real problems with our education system continue to go unaddressed. WAKE UP!
All our education problems in this country can be traced to lack of accountability and competition.
Lack of these things is why our elementary and high school education sucks.
Dominance of these things is why our post-high school system of universities is the best in the world.
Then again, maybe we just abdicate solving the problem to the big mail handlers like AOL, GMail, Hotmail, etc.
Eventually, almost everyone will use one of these services to filter spam. At that point, those big email carriers can work with each other to coordinate real solutions to the problem that will fix their bandwidth drains.
Since most of the spam that I get is illegal even according to the CANSPAM act, how would charging people who do illegal things (and thus be unlikely to ever pay up) help?
You're probably right.
But the form is still funny.
If your interpretation is so loose the the First Amendment gives a spammer the right to spam, then by that same logic the Second Amendment gives me the right to shoot them in the face.
I guess that explains the spam I received this morning on my Amazon-only email alias.
Very annoying.
Insult to them? What does that even mean? You think they're in doggy heaven looking down feeling mournful over your desire to play god?
As for people cloning, I guess if you really think the genetic make-up of a person is something worth going through the trouble of raising that person from a baby, knock yourself out.
Maybe when I die, one of my grand-kids might want to raise a clone of me... dunno. Might be what they want... might make them feel I was there again. I find strong value judgments on the idea to be superstitious and overly-emotional.
That kind of assumes your goal is to give some animal a home.
To me, that's like saying "Why go buy the new snazzy gaming computer you want when there are so many old 486's going to land fills? Why not go get a used/refurbished one to give it a desk to sit on?"
I've trained a lot of animals, mostly dogs. You know fairly quickly which ones are the smart ones and which ones are hopeless idiots. Sure, you can train the idiots - but it's a lot more work.
If there's one thing that's great about cloning - it's going to finally put this whole nature vs nurture issue in the realm of science. For things like basic animal intelligence, people will finally understand the truly overwhelming impact of nature.
My dad had a standard poodle that was friggin' brilliant. Everything we wanted to teach it only took a couple of training sessions. Best dog ever. I would take a clone of it in a heartbeat and when that one died I'd take another exactly like it.
Relativity isn't intuitive for the human mind. Get over it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox
Any dehumidifier you buy from the hardware store has a humidity detector in it so you can set it to go on only when the humidity level reaches some threshold.
For example, cd into a working copy that you've never seen before and try to determine its exact repository URL.
Is that a trick question? I always just use 'svn info'.
The full URL references can be a pain in those situations where it's required, although the concept of branches as directory copies is so beautiful that I wouldn't want to give it up for some typing convenience.
You can also eliminate the full URL references by just checking out the entire repo and using relative paths to the base of your repo.
I've got a 16GB Sansa View I bought for $199 when iPods of similar size were (I think) $50 more expensive. I wish I had bought the iPod. Sansa makes buggy products that they don't support.
The Sansa message boards have moved past anger and denial to despair that Sandisk will never fix their damned firmware.
What dealings? I don't see any reasonably-legitimate testimony that Palin did anything illegal. About the only thing I've read "first hand" was from the supposed hacker who admitted to not finding anything at all incriminating in her Yahoo mailbox.
Do you have another source? Or are you just grinding a political ax and repeating half-truths that you want to believe?
So you think that Steve Jobs knows miscellaneous low level details of a Mac or iPod?
*cough*, I call being dipped in Jessica Alba... ... just sayin' is all.
So you sign a recurring "not to exceed" transaction.
I think you're entirely correct. It's not the presence of fear, it's what in particular different groups fear.
You could also recast fear as "recognizing danger". Conservatives tend to be tuned to recognize danger to their personal being, like danger from strangers.
Liberals tend to recognize more conceptual dangers like from religion or authority.
There are likely deep genetic links to these behaviors that we won't understand for decades.
We don't have these things because we don't have sane and reasonable voters/citizens. We're too fundamentally flawed on average to have those things. Barring some major taking hold of our own DNA and reprogramming ourselves or our progeny to be smarter/saner, we're doomed.
paraphrase comment #1: Haskell is too academic to be useful.
paraphrase comment #2: No it isn't, here's how to do something with a fibbonacci sequence.
Uh, you failed at "fibbonacci" to make your point. :)
They're stupider than we're assuming, so now what?
A CFL that I bought from Ikea 3 years ago flickers horribly some days. Should I send it to you for debugging?