So your position is "You don't need guns, the police will protect you. Oh wait, the police didn't protect you? What makes you think teachers would protect their kids?"
In fairness, that didn't sound like the GP's position at all. The argument generally goes something like:
NRA: "You don't need to tweak the existing gun laws, we can just station armed guards at schools, that'd be a deterrent, and will save lives if someone isn't deterred, which never happens. Nothing could possibly go wrong."
(Mass shooting. Armed guard is completely ineffectual, even more than predicted.)
Non-NRA: "Uh, that didn't work. I mean, even if he'd fucking done his job, most of the dead kids would still be dead."
NRA: "Well why don't we arm teachers then?"
Non-NRA: "A trained professional got scared, and you think arming teachers would help? And did you miss the part that the armed guard only made the decision whether to get involved after kids were already dead?"
"NRA: Uh, fake news! Those kids were coached! And they're actors! Shut up shut up!"
Here's a better idea, let's see what we can do to keep weapons that make it easy to kill large numbers of people out of, well, at least the hands of those who are likely to abuse them.
I know that's a different argument. I know that both the NRA nutjobs and Brady buffoons (who will slowly realize I'm not talking about the AWB) are already pissed enough to be furiously clicking on keyboards demanding I be hung drawn and quartered, but it really isn't that difficult.
If it's not a.22LR or similarly weak weapon, and it has a detachable magazine, or accepts more than a handful of cartridges, then you go through a REAL background check. None of this "Has he ever committed stock fraud? OMG we can't let Martha Stewart own a gun! Oh, but this teenager with anger issues is fine" BS we currently do, but a check like you'd get in Europe - letters of recommendation from professionals, a psych evaluation, consent of local law enforcement. And you need to state a reason for having one, no "I want to pose with it on YouTube" excuses.
Everyone continues to have the right to defend themselves. Everyone continues to have the right to shoot deer. But only people who are highly unlikely to shoot up a school or office or church gets to own something that could plausibly be used to shoot up a school or office or church.
And the best part is, no teachers get blamed for preventing a mass shooting because they were frozen with fear in a situation their professional training and aptitude was never suited for.
It's probably around 10k for the IMAP library, 100k for the database/cache, 1Mb for the UI code, 2Mb for the UX assets, and 22Gb for the HTML renderer.
Well I have never seen a MPEG2 video stream with an AAC sound track that has been produced commercially. DVD's use an AC3 soundtrack (at least all mine do with sometimes a DTS one as well) and here in the UK the broadcast MPEG2 via DVB-T is all MP2 soundtracks.
While this is true, that's solely because the MPEG 2 TS (and PS) container formats do allow non MPEG codecs, and various other standardization bodies have mandated for their applications, such as DVD, ATSC, and presumably DVB-T, that audio be allowed in AC-3 format combined with MPEG-2 video in an MPEG-2 transport (or program) stream container. AC-3 is not an MPEG-2 format, it's not defined by MPEG-2, MPEG-2 just lives happily in harmony with it.
The AAC format has been evolving for a long time so what do you exactly mean by AAC? The original specification MPEG-2 Part 7 is free of patents,
Then that answers my question. If that's true. I'm not convinced it is, but I hope it is. MPEG-2 Part 7 was last updated in 1999, and that's both less than 20 years ago,and the MPEG patents in general seem to have lasted much longer than 20 years after the standards that use them were published.
Unfortunately there are lots of other AAC profiles that are still under patent protection, and the MPEG4 main profile one which was defined in 2003, is as I understand it the main one in use. At least that file you downloaded from the iTunes store is.
Well... yes and no. As I understand it, the thing you download from iTunes is an MPEG-2 Part 7 compliant stream encapsulated in an MPEG4 container. You can do a straight lossless (ie ffmpeg -acodec copy) to an MPEG 2 container and end up with a 100% compliant MPEG-2 file. It's true that that there are now variants of AAC, but that's actually true of MP3 too (MP3Pro for example), though the MP3 variants never made it to MPEG standardization process. Generally though we don't call those AAC variants AAC, I've never seen HE-AAC or AAC+ ever called AAC.
The bottom line is that the core AAC codec (forget HE/etc) is a good codec in widespread use, and it would be nice to know if it's now free or not.
Yeah, it's only used by DVDs and TVs, and who uses those these days?;-)
More seriously I'm curious to know if AAC is also included, as that was part of the MPEG-2 specification, but isn't usually thought of as MPEG 2. AAC is one of the better audio encoders out there, so it'd be nice if it's free now.
Most (not all) games that have a premium currency have a way to earn it that doesn't involve cash, for example, by watching ads (and often just providing a stipend to regular players in the hope that if they stay around and invest enough of their time, they'll drop a few dollars in the long term.) So what you'd effectively do by banning premium currencies is ban being able to play F2P games for free.
That seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. And I doubt it'd help with preventing fraud or reducing the amount of money so-called whales (people who spend hundreds of dollars a month, because they're rich and can afford it) pay.
...will they fuck it up and have the headphone jack interpret minor electrical faults with the cable or plug as instructions to pause music, or even to search Google?
If I act like an utter arse at the pub my employer doesn't sack me.
I don't think the conversation is about being denied employment, merely access to social spaces on the basis of behavior in other social spaces. Most social spaces have some degree of gatekeeping taking place, and it's not unknown for pubs to ban people on the basis of extreme "acting like an utter arse" in other pubs.
Because SJWs don't exist. It's the same reason why it's not OK to make movies where hoards of black people/women/French people/etc attack and are gunned down, but it's OK to have zombies in that role.
SJWs are more or less a figment of the average alt-righter's imagination. That's why they call people SJWs and then describe things SJWs supposedly do that the people they called SJWs would never do in a million years. Being fictional beings, it's absolutely fine to treat them as the enemy and attack them. It's just a shame people who do keep mixing them up with, you know, ordinary people who believe women should be treated as human beings, and black people probably shouldn't be killed for reaching for their driver's licenses.
Windows 2000 wasn't that popular. At that time most people were using 98 or ME, and the operating system they upgraded to was XP. 2000 was a relatively obscure system, respected, but no more popular than its predecessor, Windows NT 4.
That said, WIndows was closed source. Significant parts of OS X are open source. I know less of iOS is open than, say, macOS, but it'd be interesting to know how much this really adds to the understanding of how iOS works.
At my employer, we use a bank of unused Android phones to run the MySQL databases that back up our PHP based website. It's very cheap, and backing up is just a matter of removing the micro SD card, copying the data, and inserting it back into the phone.
I'm talking about people who post here. I don't pretend to know about the views of those who remain silent. The fact is the number of people who post in support of the notion that women, black people, and others are treated more poorly than white men (in general, with exceptions) is a very small number, with most such posts being modded down, and with Damore et al being given bizarre amounts of support given the utter crap he wrote, and the fact he showed his true colors afterwards.
Google doesn't push GPM down the throats of its users.
Well, it kinda does, it's just Play Music is always pushing so much other crap that you probably don't notice.
I'm in the boat I rarely use Play Music. It's a terrible app. Just launched it after not using it for a while and the first thing I see is a popup "Music for where you are". I can't do anything with the app until I respond to the popup, which reads "At the gym? In the car? On your couch? Get music based on your location". I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THAT'S EVEN SUPPOSED TO MEAN. Why why why why would I be interested in different music if I'm sitting down vs, I don't know, not sitting down?
Let me hit Skip. OK, now it's a bunch of recommendations. My music library is nowhere to be seen. I guess I'm going to have to hit the hamburger menu. Music Library is at the top... hahah, just kidding, no it's the fifth item in the menu, just below "New Releases". Wait? What? New Releases? And above that is "Top Charts"? So Google wants me to look at someone else's music library before I get access to my own.
But let's go to Music Library, and OK, Google at least defaulted to Albums, because that's the last thing I used presumably. But have you seen the albums view? Google has managed to fuck this one up too, at any one time I can see six albums on screen. The screen is dominated by album covers. These covers consist of a gray box with a darker gray circle containing a music note in them for 90% of my library, because it doesn't recognize the CD I ripped.
Underneath each is the label JUST KIDDING, no it's about 14 characters from the start of the label. Why 14? Because that's all that will fit on one line if you split the screen into two columns of boxes. If they, you know, showed a list, like the iPod used to do, I'd probably see the whole label in the majority of cases. But now I see things like "The 9 symphoni..." and "Adventures beyo..."
Well, what I want to listen to is Beethoven's symphony #6. The version in my library. I can't use the album view because it sucks, so let me use the search. I try "Beethoven symphony 6" and I get.... directed to... some Beethoven "radio station"? And nothing in my library. I mean, why the fuck would I want that? I literally have no way of finding the right album without scrolling through boxes of circles with music notes in them squinting at text that might include part of the word "Symphony" in it but rarely even includes the composer's name.
This is an awful app. I rarely listen to my music library these days, because the only way to access it is via this thing that sucks, so I've been building playlists using Amazon Prime's free music (and the music I've bought via Amazon) instead, but their app is only marginally better.
But that said, Amazon, for all their faults, does not stop me looking at my music when I start their app, bringing up a dialog box to demand I look at some shitty new feature.
One day I will meet Sergey Brin. I will hand him my phone. I will tell him there is a version of Beethoven's 6th in my library, and give him 30 seconds to find it. When he fails, I'll ask him why.
To be clear, states elected that administration, not people. People, FWIW, didn't want any of the candidates, but favored Trump's opponent by about three million.
I don't think you have the slightest idea what you're talking about. I keep some older Ubuntu "images" running using LXC, and they're running under relatively new kernels (LXC requires you use one kernel for everything.) Torvalds takes the idea of binary compatibility very, very, seriously.
Now, if you mean "I can't run this 32 bit executable that relies upon these Slackware 3 dependencies on the 64 bit ARM version of Mint 18.3", then, well duh, but that's has nothing to do with Linux.
In fairness, you and AmiMojo are two of the tiny handful people on Slashdot who believe things like "Women are people" and "Black people actually suffer horrific discrimination" and other things that are clearly false because one person did a study once that contradicted all the other studies and that means it's all debunked.
So basically you want skilled, experienced, works who are willing to work for less money than they're worth. And you think you're reasonable.
YOU are why America is failing. We've gone from a situation where, 50 years ago, a person could walk into a job as a teenager, learn, become skilled, and end up retiring on a reasonable income, to today, where employers are proud to underpay their employees, aren't willing to invest a cent in them, and are happy to see them leave.
Everyone bitches about millennials, but quite honestly, as a GenXer, I saw this coming, we were part of the first generation that had to put up with this bullshit, and we saw these complaints about us too. Because we resented incompetent short sighted business owners who sold the farm and then complained when we weren't suited to the crumbs. But we had the last laugh - my generation pretty much invented the Internet, which, combined with the shortage of suitable employees for Boomer-run businesses, was a disaster for them.
Shape up. Continue with your entitled attitude, and you'll end up destroyed, and rightly so.
It's absolutely fine for the language to not do anything to ensure your code is going to be secure if you're the only one using your work.
When the rest of us have to use your code (or even worse, debug it!) then yes, you should be using languages that minimize the possible damage your mistakes can cause.
The fact the entire industry took one look at the bureaucracy of, say, Java, and decided that, rather than fix it, it'd standardize on PHP and C++, is why we have such shitty insecure software right now.
They've had systems, albeit imperfect, to install Debian or Ubuntu on Android phones pretty much since the 2.x days (maybe earlier.) I believe almost all require root. Here's one of the most popular, although I believe it's not being updated any more.
Ubuntu at one point had an official Android/Ubuntu hybrid project, which I think was used as the core of the Motorola Atrix, the one phone that you could dock and turn into a full desktop (or it might have been Ubuntu for Android was based on the Atrix system, I don't know which was first), it's definitely an area being worked on, and has the advantage, over both Crouton and DebianNoRoot, that Android apps are fully integrated, you can bring them up on your desktop, just like more recent ChromeOS versions allow you to.
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If that doesn't work, remember you can always uninstall Firefox without affecting your Firefox install.
In fairness, that didn't sound like the GP's position at all. The argument generally goes something like:
NRA: "You don't need to tweak the existing gun laws, we can just station armed guards at schools, that'd be a deterrent, and will save lives if someone isn't deterred, which never happens. Nothing could possibly go wrong."
(Mass shooting. Armed guard is completely ineffectual, even more than predicted.)
Non-NRA: "Uh, that didn't work. I mean, even if he'd fucking done his job, most of the dead kids would still be dead."
NRA: "Well why don't we arm teachers then?"
Non-NRA: "A trained professional got scared, and you think arming teachers would help? And did you miss the part that the armed guard only made the decision whether to get involved after kids were already dead?"
"NRA: Uh, fake news! Those kids were coached! And they're actors! Shut up shut up!"
Here's a better idea, let's see what we can do to keep weapons that make it easy to kill large numbers of people out of, well, at least the hands of those who are likely to abuse them.
I know that's a different argument. I know that both the NRA nutjobs and Brady buffoons (who will slowly realize I'm not talking about the AWB) are already pissed enough to be furiously clicking on keyboards demanding I be hung drawn and quartered, but it really isn't that difficult.
If it's not a .22LR or similarly weak weapon, and it has a detachable magazine, or accepts more than a handful of cartridges, then you go through a REAL background check. None of this "Has he ever committed stock fraud? OMG we can't let Martha Stewart own a gun! Oh, but this teenager with anger issues is fine" BS we currently do, but a check like you'd get in Europe - letters of recommendation from professionals, a psych evaluation, consent of local law enforcement. And you need to state a reason for having one, no "I want to pose with it on YouTube" excuses.
Everyone continues to have the right to defend themselves. Everyone continues to have the right to shoot deer. But only people who are highly unlikely to shoot up a school or office or church gets to own something that could plausibly be used to shoot up a school or office or church.
And the best part is, no teachers get blamed for preventing a mass shooting because they were frozen with fear in a situation their professional training and aptitude was never suited for.
It's probably around 10k for the IMAP library, 100k for the database/cache, 1Mb for the UI code, 2Mb for the UX assets, and 22Gb for the HTML renderer.
While this is true, that's solely because the MPEG 2 TS (and PS) container formats do allow non MPEG codecs, and various other standardization bodies have mandated for their applications, such as DVD, ATSC, and presumably DVB-T, that audio be allowed in AC-3 format combined with MPEG-2 video in an MPEG-2 transport (or program) stream container. AC-3 is not an MPEG-2 format, it's not defined by MPEG-2, MPEG-2 just lives happily in harmony with it.
Then that answers my question. If that's true. I'm not convinced it is, but I hope it is. MPEG-2 Part 7 was last updated in 1999, and that's both less than 20 years ago,and the MPEG patents in general seem to have lasted much longer than 20 years after the standards that use them were published.
Well... yes and no. As I understand it, the thing you download from iTunes is an MPEG-2 Part 7 compliant stream encapsulated in an MPEG4 container. You can do a straight lossless (ie ffmpeg -acodec copy) to an MPEG 2 container and end up with a 100% compliant MPEG-2 file. It's true that that there are now variants of AAC, but that's actually true of MP3 too (MP3Pro for example), though the MP3 variants never made it to MPEG standardization process. Generally though we don't call those AAC variants AAC, I've never seen HE-AAC or AAC+ ever called AAC.
The bottom line is that the core AAC codec (forget HE/etc) is a good codec in widespread use, and it would be nice to know if it's now free or not.
No, AC3 is not part of the MPEG 2 standards. I'm talking about AAC.
Yup. You no longer need to pay a license fee when you buy an ATSC TV or DVD (including Blu-ray disc) player.
Yeah, it's only used by DVDs and TVs, and who uses those these days? ;-)
More seriously I'm curious to know if AAC is also included, as that was part of the MPEG-2 specification, but isn't usually thought of as MPEG 2. AAC is one of the better audio encoders out there, so it'd be nice if it's free now.
Most (not all) games that have a premium currency have a way to earn it that doesn't involve cash, for example, by watching ads (and often just providing a stipend to regular players in the hope that if they stay around and invest enough of their time, they'll drop a few dollars in the long term.) So what you'd effectively do by banning premium currencies is ban being able to play F2P games for free.
That seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. And I doubt it'd help with preventing fraud or reducing the amount of money so-called whales (people who spend hundreds of dollars a month, because they're rich and can afford it) pay.
...will they fuck it up and have the headphone jack interpret minor electrical faults with the cable or plug as instructions to pause music, or even to search Google?
Not long, he got, William Shatner, to help, him,
I don't think the conversation is about being denied employment, merely access to social spaces on the basis of behavior in other social spaces. Most social spaces have some degree of gatekeeping taking place, and it's not unknown for pubs to ban people on the basis of extreme "acting like an utter arse" in other pubs.
Because SJWs don't exist. It's the same reason why it's not OK to make movies where hoards of black people/women/French people/etc attack and are gunned down, but it's OK to have zombies in that role.
SJWs are more or less a figment of the average alt-righter's imagination. That's why they call people SJWs and then describe things SJWs supposedly do that the people they called SJWs would never do in a million years. Being fictional beings, it's absolutely fine to treat them as the enemy and attack them. It's just a shame people who do keep mixing them up with, you know, ordinary people who believe women should be treated as human beings, and black people probably shouldn't be killed for reaching for their driver's licenses.
Won't someone think of the shareholders?
They could also have the state website pivot to video.
Windows 2000 wasn't that popular. At that time most people were using 98 or ME, and the operating system they upgraded to was XP. 2000 was a relatively obscure system, respected, but no more popular than its predecessor, Windows NT 4.
That said, WIndows was closed source. Significant parts of OS X are open source. I know less of iOS is open than, say, macOS, but it'd be interesting to know how much this really adds to the understanding of how iOS works.
Makes sense, they could introduce artificial scarcity by having only 140 coins...
At my employer, we use a bank of unused Android phones to run the MySQL databases that back up our PHP based website. It's very cheap, and backing up is just a matter of removing the micro SD card, copying the data, and inserting it back into the phone.
I'm talking about people who post here. I don't pretend to know about the views of those who remain silent. The fact is the number of people who post in support of the notion that women, black people, and others are treated more poorly than white men (in general, with exceptions) is a very small number, with most such posts being modded down, and with Damore et al being given bizarre amounts of support given the utter crap he wrote, and the fact he showed his true colors afterwards.
Well, it kinda does, it's just Play Music is always pushing so much other crap that you probably don't notice.
I'm in the boat I rarely use Play Music. It's a terrible app. Just launched it after not using it for a while and the first thing I see is a popup "Music for where you are". I can't do anything with the app until I respond to the popup, which reads "At the gym? In the car? On your couch? Get music based on your location". I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK THAT'S EVEN SUPPOSED TO MEAN. Why why why why would I be interested in different music if I'm sitting down vs, I don't know, not sitting down?
Let me hit Skip. OK, now it's a bunch of recommendations. My music library is nowhere to be seen. I guess I'm going to have to hit the hamburger menu. Music Library is at the top... hahah, just kidding, no it's the fifth item in the menu, just below "New Releases". Wait? What? New Releases? And above that is "Top Charts"? So Google wants me to look at someone else's music library before I get access to my own.
But let's go to Music Library, and OK, Google at least defaulted to Albums, because that's the last thing I used presumably. But have you seen the albums view? Google has managed to fuck this one up too, at any one time I can see six albums on screen. The screen is dominated by album covers. These covers consist of a gray box with a darker gray circle containing a music note in them for 90% of my library, because it doesn't recognize the CD I ripped.
Underneath each is the label JUST KIDDING, no it's about 14 characters from the start of the label. Why 14? Because that's all that will fit on one line if you split the screen into two columns of boxes. If they, you know, showed a list, like the iPod used to do, I'd probably see the whole label in the majority of cases. But now I see things like "The 9 symphoni..." and "Adventures beyo..."
Well, what I want to listen to is Beethoven's symphony #6. The version in my library. I can't use the album view because it sucks, so let me use the search. I try "Beethoven symphony 6" and I get.... directed to... some Beethoven "radio station"? And nothing in my library. I mean, why the fuck would I want that? I literally have no way of finding the right album without scrolling through boxes of circles with music notes in them squinting at text that might include part of the word "Symphony" in it but rarely even includes the composer's name.
This is an awful app. I rarely listen to my music library these days, because the only way to access it is via this thing that sucks, so I've been building playlists using Amazon Prime's free music (and the music I've bought via Amazon) instead, but their app is only marginally better.
But that said, Amazon, for all their faults, does not stop me looking at my music when I start their app, bringing up a dialog box to demand I look at some shitty new feature.
One day I will meet Sergey Brin. I will hand him my phone. I will tell him there is a version of Beethoven's 6th in my library, and give him 30 seconds to find it. When he fails, I'll ask him why.
To be clear, states elected that administration, not people. People, FWIW, didn't want any of the candidates, but favored Trump's opponent by about three million.
I don't think you have the slightest idea what you're talking about. I keep some older Ubuntu "images" running using LXC, and they're running under relatively new kernels (LXC requires you use one kernel for everything.) Torvalds takes the idea of binary compatibility very, very, seriously.
Now, if you mean "I can't run this 32 bit executable that relies upon these Slackware 3 dependencies on the 64 bit ARM version of Mint 18.3", then, well duh, but that's has nothing to do with Linux.
In fairness, you and AmiMojo are two of the tiny handful people on Slashdot who believe things like "Women are people" and "Black people actually suffer horrific discrimination" and other things that are clearly false because one person did a study once that contradicted all the other studies and that means it's all debunked.
So basically you want skilled, experienced, works who are willing to work for less money than they're worth. And you think you're reasonable.
YOU are why America is failing. We've gone from a situation where, 50 years ago, a person could walk into a job as a teenager, learn, become skilled, and end up retiring on a reasonable income, to today, where employers are proud to underpay their employees, aren't willing to invest a cent in them, and are happy to see them leave.
Everyone bitches about millennials, but quite honestly, as a GenXer, I saw this coming, we were part of the first generation that had to put up with this bullshit, and we saw these complaints about us too. Because we resented incompetent short sighted business owners who sold the farm and then complained when we weren't suited to the crumbs. But we had the last laugh - my generation pretty much invented the Internet, which, combined with the shortage of suitable employees for Boomer-run businesses, was a disaster for them.
Shape up. Continue with your entitled attitude, and you'll end up destroyed, and rightly so.
It's absolutely fine for the language to not do anything to ensure your code is going to be secure if you're the only one using your work.
When the rest of us have to use your code (or even worse, debug it!) then yes, you should be using languages that minimize the possible damage your mistakes can cause.
The fact the entire industry took one look at the bureaucracy of, say, Java, and decided that, rather than fix it, it'd standardize on PHP and C++, is why we have such shitty insecure software right now.
They've had systems, albeit imperfect, to install Debian or Ubuntu on Android phones pretty much since the 2.x days (maybe earlier.) I believe almost all require root. Here's one of the most popular, although I believe it's not being updated any more.
Ubuntu at one point had an official Android/Ubuntu hybrid project, which I think was used as the core of the Motorola Atrix, the one phone that you could dock and turn into a full desktop (or it might have been Ubuntu for Android was based on the Atrix system, I don't know which was first), it's definitely an area being worked on, and has the advantage, over both Crouton and DebianNoRoot, that Android apps are fully integrated, you can bring them up on your desktop, just like more recent ChromeOS versions allow you to.