There's not a movie or album I can't find online for free or stream at my convenience for no fee. The only way copyright really affects people any more are people who seek to remix works and republish them. Wikileaks is another fine example. Information may not "want" to be free, but people want to share it. If anyone's really concerned about a certain piece of research's squelching affecting world prosperity, then go leak it there instead of crying about some need for law-change and encourage others to do likewise. The law will catch up eventually.
RTFA? Oh right you didn't.
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Is Sugar Toxic?
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Where to begin. We can start with the first word of your post. "Lusting" is an activity I enjoy with redheads. Lustig is a scientist.
Secondly, Aragon makes a claim that Lustig doesn't nor does the article if you manage past the first few words. HFCS and sugar are equivalent nutritionally and they're both bad. Fructose is metabolized differently however (Aragon apparently can't read as well and decided to go the whole HFCS vs sucrose thing). Vis a vis the Japanese diet, he also tries to use anecdote (even when all of the posts he cites don't even support him!) and you'd do much better just to measure per capita sugar consumption (you know, sugar made minus sugar exported (or used for non-human consumption)) divided by number of people. This actual data (as cited in the TFA that you didn't read) supports the author's assertion, whereas using the plural of anecdote as data does not. (However, I would kill to have Japanese-style soft drink machines where literally one or two things actually contain sugar. You can't even find unsweetened tea in the states except at specialty stores for the most part.)
Lastly, Aragon plays the wonderful correlation/causality card. Which works for a great number of things, but unfortunately, scientists interesting in societal behavior can't just force people to adhere to their dietary whims randomly.
I'd like to see further research done in say, a controlled environment like a school where some bureaucrat can ban sugar from products the school sells and see if children become healthier. But bringing in thermodynamics to sound smart without the vaguely inclination of what you're even referring to is merely arrogant.
It's ~$14K, not $15K. He did get paid for finding the exploit -- just not as much as he could have. $Lost = $Received - $Possible. And props for anyone who thinks that's Perl rather than simply labeling my units;)
I have no problem with creating a website devoted to hate. What I do have a problem with are their funeral protests.
If someone gives their life in service of the country, the least the country can do is give them a dignified funeral. We already have limits on Free Speech (screaming "fire" in a theater) and I'm not quite so sure adding an additional restriction would lead to repression. I am however, equally happy, that the counter-protesters always outnumber their filth.
The PS3 is already porting steam. When Portal ships, it will already use steam to save games in the cloud. And for people who don't know, it's fine. There's still local copies of your savegames as well.
The "bad" part about sales tax is that it's regressive -- you pay whether you're on welfare buying diapers for your kid or a multimillionaire buying his 3rd yacht. The positive part is that many people living in our state are undocumented, work below radar, and pay taxes now and wouldn't necessarily pay an income tax -- but they're largely the poor above anyway and I thought we had a revolution about no taxation without representation.
Personally, I'd like to see some rail projects. It's a 5 hour drive to Dallas along mostly empty road and it'd be perfect for one of these new-fangled bullet trains. Or maybe real local transit (there's one train in all of Houston it goes north and south. That's it. Not that it hasn't been tried, but predicting failure and then causing it is a Houston tradition -- like demolishing perfectly good railroad tracks after being bribed by construction companies (that'd be Tom "2 years is in the pen? That's it?" DeLay)).
Try posting your resume in your sig. I got my first job out of school that way. Chances are, smart tech people are reading this blog and I know at least a couple jobs that have openings in different areas. And also -- this sounds silly -- volunteer in areas that interest you. I know people who've found jobs that way as well.
he considered the workers parasites included the people with the golden parachutes as parasites as well
These "parasites" make cars and sell them at a profit. They freely elect a union to represent them. I'm sorry you don't like their representation, but maybe I don't like your congressman either.
The execs? Some of them organized massive QA improvements by sending workers to Japan years ago (that's why American cars are much higher quality than 2 decades ago -- see Consumer Reports as a reference.) They turned around massive companies in a couple years from bleeding money, to profits.
American automakers, almost without exception, turned profits last quarter using a very old and very viable business model (selling physical goods to people for money) and create well-paying (thanks to unions) jobs in the process. I have much more sympathy for these folk than the so-called "bankers" at who, near as I can tell, created nothing of value primarily by duping hard-working idiots into bad mortgages and selling them to others (half the US's IQ is 100 or below. You expect them to read and understand the fine print?)
What'd be an interesting follow-up is whether this is because of the odor itself or what it reminds us of. Do the same study where no one eats pumpkin pie and see if the effect is the same.
The author's hypothesis seems to suggest the former, but that's what science is for.
I used SVN for the past 5 years and I thought branching and merging was a pain. Well, actually, I didn't think it was a pain, mostly because I didn't know any other way.
Then I tried Git. And Hg. I haven't looked back. TortoiseHg works great BTW;)
From a day-to-day workflow standpoint, I find I get far fewer merge issues when working with either tool; basically, you are forced to run an "svn update" before you can run an SVN commit. And unlike SVN, if you do a bad merge, it's much easier to go be back and redo. Additionally, if you merge 100 bug fixes from the "stable branch", both Hg and Git preserve the history of the bug fixes. So if you do "svn blame" the line that fixes the nasty stack corruption bug, you'll see "Fixed nasty stack corruption bug when doing X/Y/Z" rather than "Merged from stable branch". Yeah, you can go back and do detective work and figure it out with SVN, but don't you have better things to do?
Also, they've changed my entire workflow. With a distributed system, I'll commit code locally ("OK, this mostly works."). But since the feature isn't 100% done, there's no reason to put it in the main code tree for all the developers to look at. That way, if I manage to screw something up (say cause a nasty crash that corrupts the stack), I can update back to these prior "mostly working" revisions. SVN forces you to either create a branch every time you want to work on a feature (in which case, it's a pain to update from the trunk...merging your code back becomes painful), keep a bunch of uncommitted code, or commit 1/2 working code you'll finish later. With Git and Hg, I commit early and often.
Honestly though, try Git or Hg. That's the best way to see its advantages. I'm trying but it's like trying to explain the advantages of a high level language to an assembly language coder: the assembly coder is perfectly happy, but doesn't think he "needs" all these "fancy" features since he has no real concept what they mean.
I tried to convince people at my last company to switch, and it didn't happen. At my current one, I just said "trust me guys" to a bunch of more senior developers. We made the switch from SVN. I've been thanked numerous times by all of them.
I was telling a friend -- that quote must be the oldest meme in English. It predates even printed history (like the Canterbury Tales).
It also demonstrates how effective it is to kill religious leaders to quash their message. Though I suppose to be fair, the king does end up winning in the end;)
I got the reference immediately, but I wouldn't expect your average slashdotter to get Thomas Beckett references. Maybe a reference to OS2...but the Archbishop of Canterbury? Well played indeed!
you depend on the evil multinational corporation because, at best, you're one out of about 650,000 other voices that your Representative might decide to listen to and one of maybe 33 million your Senator will bother to hear from.
I suppose I could talk to the CEO who denied my coverage for life-saving treatment instead of my congressman. While I share your cynicism, at least the government, in theory if not fact, has to listen to its people. A company is only responsible to its shareholders...which is a great thing when you're making cars but not when trying to provide treatment. Insurance is also a weird market because it's something you buy when you don't need it. If my cell phone company sucks, I get a new one. If my insurance doesn't cover life-threatening ailment that I'm now diagnosed with, I'm SOL. For the same reason "private fire departments" don't work, "private medical care" is doomed by the mismatch of incentives.
Medicare may not have money -- but they provide care for a fraction of the cost that private insurance does -- and if we weren't busy fighting needless wars and having a massive "defense" budget (how can I call it defense when we're not fighting on our own soil?), we could easily afford it. I'm all for efficiency and paying less money from my paycheck at the end of the day, so I'm in favor of paying slightly higher taxes vs having to pay that same money on the private market for less coverage and less accountability (while we're at it, we can set up "death panels". If treatment is denied from an individual, let's let a jury of one's peers decide if that decision was correct before letting the person die...versus the system of faceless bean-counters trying to control costs.)
Show me any actual non-"10 year survival rate on this really rare cancer" study on how private insurance gets me more per dollar spent, and maybe I'll buy the argument. Until then, isn't it just a better buy?
Since Apple just opened their platform for 3rd party tools today and VLC is built on Qt, perhaps in the future it'll just be a simple recompile, much like how VLC works on all its current platforms.
It's a NON-PROFIT. The tickets are to pay for porta-poties, rent the land, the construction of the man/temple, and pay for the cops the gov't makes them buy.
Their finances are open: if you disagree with the cost, you can drill down and disagree, but they're not making money.
And yes, a bunch of dumb hippies. Like the Sergei Brinn and Larry Page.
It's a non-commercial event. You can't sell food there. You can't sell photos of the event. You can't go take pictures of the human carcass wash or critical tits ride. If there were photographers, these events couldn't happen. There are no "observer" tickets for the event -- it's not a concert.
Why is it that people always bitch about privacy, and about Google putting up photos of their house or their friends online, a non-profit bans this practice and everyone gets up in arms? I've taken numerous pictures at the event, and as long as you don't try to sell them, you don't get hassled.
Especially when the policy's author is was the lead council for the Electronic Freedom Frontier.
When I was doing CS, we had to do a lot of Unix specific projects like writing a Unix shell -- which is very hard to do on Windows. I don't think Linux is any harder (indeed, you get a lot of understanding from it as you point out), but if you want to use the same OS for doing CS projects, writing papers (I was got a degree in philosophy), entertainment/gaming (especially for folks with iPods/Pads/Phones and with the steam deal, 95% of the games I play are now on OSX), I think OSX is probably your best bet.
And anecdotally, I saw all of my friends who ran Linux on their Macs stop when OSX came out and many of my CS friends who ran Linux, went out and bought PowerBooks. Having a consumer-grade Unix is good.
The other factor to this is that a lot of colleges were still had Unix-based CS curricula in 1999-2004, so Linux probably dropped for that reason. Additionally, if you are a CS student and want to learn/use Unix/GCC/etc for CS projects, it's much much easier on a Mac than either Windows+Emulators or Linux (assuming you don't already know it).
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There's not a movie or album I can't find online for free or stream at my convenience for no fee. The only way copyright really affects people any more are people who seek to remix works and republish them. Wikileaks is another fine example. Information may not "want" to be free, but people want to share it. If anyone's really concerned about a certain piece of research's squelching affecting world prosperity, then go leak it there instead of crying about some need for law-change and encourage others to do likewise. The law will catch up eventually.
Where to begin. We can start with the first word of your post. "Lusting" is an activity I enjoy with redheads. Lustig is a scientist.
Secondly, Aragon makes a claim that Lustig doesn't nor does the article if you manage past the first few words. HFCS and sugar are equivalent nutritionally and they're both bad. Fructose is metabolized differently however (Aragon apparently can't read as well and decided to go the whole HFCS vs sucrose thing). Vis a vis the Japanese diet, he also tries to use anecdote (even when all of the posts he cites don't even support him!) and you'd do much better just to measure per capita sugar consumption (you know, sugar made minus sugar exported (or used for non-human consumption)) divided by number of people. This actual data (as cited in the TFA that you didn't read) supports the author's assertion, whereas using the plural of anecdote as data does not. (However, I would kill to have Japanese-style soft drink machines where literally one or two things actually contain sugar. You can't even find unsweetened tea in the states except at specialty stores for the most part.)
Lastly, Aragon plays the wonderful correlation/causality card. Which works for a great number of things, but unfortunately, scientists interesting in societal behavior can't just force people to adhere to their dietary whims randomly.
I'd like to see further research done in say, a controlled environment like a school where some bureaucrat can ban sugar from products the school sells and see if children become healthier. But bringing in thermodynamics to sound smart without the vaguely inclination of what you're even referring to is merely arrogant.
It's ~$14K, not $15K. He did get paid for finding the exploit -- just not as much as he could have. $Lost = $Received - $Possible. And props for anyone who thinks that's Perl rather than simply labeling my units;)
I have no problem with creating a website devoted to hate. What I do have a problem with are their funeral protests.
If someone gives their life in service of the country, the least the country can do is give them a dignified funeral. We already have limits on Free Speech (screaming "fire" in a theater) and I'm not quite so sure adding an additional restriction would lead to repression. I am however, equally happy, that the counter-protesters always outnumber their filth.
The PS3 is already porting steam. When Portal ships, it will already use steam to save games in the cloud. And for people who don't know, it's fine. There's still local copies of your savegames as well.
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/valve%E2%80%99s-lombardi-ps3-steam-support
There's no clue in the article I could find as to whether Sony opted to use Steam to do this, or reinvent the wheel. Here's hoping it's the former.
Genius pairing the references. Though I'm not sure how familiar the average slashdotter is with literature;)
I don't.
I wanted to point out what an actual parasite looks like and its difference between workers.
Howdy partner (I live in Houston;))
The "bad" part about sales tax is that it's regressive -- you pay whether you're on welfare buying diapers for your kid or a multimillionaire buying his 3rd yacht. The positive part is that many people living in our state are undocumented, work below radar, and pay taxes now and wouldn't necessarily pay an income tax -- but they're largely the poor above anyway and I thought we had a revolution about no taxation without representation.
Personally, I'd like to see some rail projects. It's a 5 hour drive to Dallas along mostly empty road and it'd be perfect for one of these new-fangled bullet trains. Or maybe real local transit (there's one train in all of Houston it goes north and south. That's it. Not that it hasn't been tried, but predicting failure and then causing it is a Houston tradition -- like demolishing perfectly good railroad tracks after being bribed by construction companies (that'd be Tom "2 years is in the pen? That's it?" DeLay)).
Try posting your resume in your sig. I got my first job out of school that way. Chances are, smart tech people are reading this blog and I know at least a couple jobs that have openings in different areas. And also -- this sounds silly -- volunteer in areas that interest you. I know people who've found jobs that way as well.
he considered the workers parasites included the people with the golden parachutes as parasites as well
These "parasites" make cars and sell them at a profit. They freely elect a union to represent them. I'm sorry you don't like their representation, but maybe I don't like your congressman either.
The execs? Some of them organized massive QA improvements by sending workers to Japan years ago (that's why American cars are much higher quality than 2 decades ago -- see Consumer Reports as a reference.) They turned around massive companies in a couple years from bleeding money, to profits.
American automakers, almost without exception, turned profits last quarter using a very old and very viable business model (selling physical goods to people for money) and create well-paying (thanks to unions) jobs in the process. I have much more sympathy for these folk than the so-called "bankers" at who, near as I can tell, created nothing of value primarily by duping hard-working idiots into bad mortgages and selling them to others (half the US's IQ is 100 or below. You expect them to read and understand the fine print?)
What'd be an interesting follow-up is whether this is because of the odor itself or what it reminds us of. Do the same study where no one eats pumpkin pie and see if the effect is the same.
The author's hypothesis seems to suggest the former, but that's what science is for.
I used SVN for the past 5 years and I thought branching and merging was a pain. Well, actually, I didn't think it was a pain, mostly because I didn't know any other way.
Then I tried Git. And Hg. I haven't looked back. TortoiseHg works great BTW;)
From a day-to-day workflow standpoint, I find I get far fewer merge issues when working with either tool; basically, you are forced to run an "svn update" before you can run an SVN commit. And unlike SVN, if you do a bad merge, it's much easier to go be back and redo. Additionally, if you merge 100 bug fixes from the "stable branch", both Hg and Git preserve the history of the bug fixes. So if you do "svn blame" the line that fixes the nasty stack corruption bug, you'll see "Fixed nasty stack corruption bug when doing X/Y/Z" rather than "Merged from stable branch". Yeah, you can go back and do detective work and figure it out with SVN, but don't you have better things to do?
Also, they've changed my entire workflow. With a distributed system, I'll commit code locally ("OK, this mostly works."). But since the feature isn't 100% done, there's no reason to put it in the main code tree for all the developers to look at. That way, if I manage to screw something up (say cause a nasty crash that corrupts the stack), I can update back to these prior "mostly working" revisions. SVN forces you to either create a branch every time you want to work on a feature (in which case, it's a pain to update from the trunk...merging your code back becomes painful), keep a bunch of uncommitted code, or commit 1/2 working code you'll finish later. With Git and Hg, I commit early and often.
Honestly though, try Git or Hg. That's the best way to see its advantages. I'm trying but it's like trying to explain the advantages of a high level language to an assembly language coder: the assembly coder is perfectly happy, but doesn't think he "needs" all these "fancy" features since he has no real concept what they mean.
I tried to convince people at my last company to switch, and it didn't happen. At my current one, I just said "trust me guys" to a bunch of more senior developers. We made the switch from SVN. I've been thanked numerous times by all of them.
I was telling a friend -- that quote must be the oldest meme in English. It predates even printed history (like the Canterbury Tales).
It also demonstrates how effective it is to kill religious leaders to quash their message. Though I suppose to be fair, the king does end up winning in the end;)
I am really astonished you got modded up to 5.
I got the reference immediately, but I wouldn't expect your average slashdotter to get Thomas Beckett references. Maybe a reference to OS2...but the Archbishop of Canterbury? Well played indeed!
Two infinites does not a greater infinite make.
Are there more even numbers or more integers?
you depend on the evil multinational corporation because, at best, you're one out of about 650,000 other voices that your Representative might decide to listen to and one of maybe 33 million your Senator will bother to hear from.
I suppose I could talk to the CEO who denied my coverage for life-saving treatment instead of my congressman. While I share your cynicism, at least the government, in theory if not fact, has to listen to its people. A company is only responsible to its shareholders...which is a great thing when you're making cars but not when trying to provide treatment. Insurance is also a weird market because it's something you buy when you don't need it. If my cell phone company sucks, I get a new one. If my insurance doesn't cover life-threatening ailment that I'm now diagnosed with, I'm SOL. For the same reason "private fire departments" don't work, "private medical care" is doomed by the mismatch of incentives.
Medicare may not have money -- but they provide care for a fraction of the cost that private insurance does -- and if we weren't busy fighting needless wars and having a massive "defense" budget (how can I call it defense when we're not fighting on our own soil?), we could easily afford it. I'm all for efficiency and paying less money from my paycheck at the end of the day, so I'm in favor of paying slightly higher taxes vs having to pay that same money on the private market for less coverage and less accountability (while we're at it, we can set up "death panels". If treatment is denied from an individual, let's let a jury of one's peers decide if that decision was correct before letting the person die...versus the system of faceless bean-counters trying to control costs.)
Show me any actual non-"10 year survival rate on this really rare cancer" study on how private insurance gets me more per dollar spent, and maybe I'll buy the argument. Until then, isn't it just a better buy?
...without having to restrict myself to an ancient or gutless graphics card.
The binary NVidia drivers work great for me on my new cards. Oh, you wanted Open Source drivers? Like Windows/Mac have had for years?;)
Cyber sex is sex! You can really get pregnant, not just cyber pregnant.
Be sure to use a condom!
In Soviet Russia, Free Speech zones are in Siberia!
There's a lot of people who did it first.
There's some line, like oh, maybe protesting that your son is going to hell at his funeral for dying in Iraqistan, but blowing bubbles doesn't seem to reach that level of depravity.
Since Apple just opened their platform for 3rd party tools today and VLC is built on Qt, perhaps in the future it'll just be a simple recompile, much like how VLC works on all its current platforms.
It's a NON-PROFIT. The tickets are to pay for porta-poties, rent the land, the construction of the man/temple, and pay for the cops the gov't makes them buy.
Their finances are open: if you disagree with the cost, you can drill down and disagree, but they're not making money.
And yes, a bunch of dumb hippies. Like the Sergei Brinn and Larry Page.
It's a non-commercial event. You can't sell food there. You can't sell photos of the event. You can't go take pictures of the human carcass wash or critical tits ride. If there were photographers, these events couldn't happen. There are no "observer" tickets for the event -- it's not a concert.
Why is it that people always bitch about privacy, and about Google putting up photos of their house or their friends online, a non-profit bans this practice and everyone gets up in arms? I've taken numerous pictures at the event, and as long as you don't try to sell them, you don't get hassled.
Especially when the policy's author is was the lead council for the Electronic Freedom Frontier.
When I was doing CS, we had to do a lot of Unix specific projects like writing a Unix shell -- which is very hard to do on Windows. I don't think Linux is any harder (indeed, you get a lot of understanding from it as you point out), but if you want to use the same OS for doing CS projects, writing papers (I was got a degree in philosophy), entertainment/gaming (especially for folks with iPods/Pads/Phones and with the steam deal, 95% of the games I play are now on OSX), I think OSX is probably your best bet.
And anecdotally, I saw all of my friends who ran Linux on their Macs stop when OSX came out and many of my CS friends who ran Linux, went out and bought PowerBooks. Having a consumer-grade Unix is good.
The other factor to this is that a lot of colleges were still had Unix-based CS curricula in 1999-2004, so Linux probably dropped for that reason. Additionally, if you are a CS student and want to learn/use Unix/GCC/etc for CS projects, it's much much easier on a Mac than either Windows+Emulators or Linux (assuming you don't already know it).
I think this is quite easily the best thing I've ever seen on idle. Thanks!