Maybe I'm naive because I don't know any autistic person, but why not just tell the person you are going to have a long talk to that you need to have nonverbal signals expressed explicitly through words?
It's not that computer-glasses would irritate people less than being told which channels of communication are not available in a talk.
Would that work? How do you people with autism / asperger do this? Or would you be annoyed personally if somebody told you "sorry, but mersenne-primes are not an interesting topic for me"
I might add that I'm absolutely aware of the fact that some of these opressive governments served and serve my country's economical interests very well.
Yes, I mixed up the names of those two american companies - and it's funny because both are just such beautiful and prototypic symbols for different aspects of the US-American achievements in making this world a better place.
> You're getting your liberal propoganda mixed up.
Uh, "liberal propaganda" is a Fox News phrase that doesn't make much sense in any country but in the US.
> You're a moron.
Well, I'm a drug-addicted moron now, if I got your last two messages right. How impressive.
> I was comparing two situations where action vs. inaction made a hell of a difference.
Yes, you did. The problem is that these situations aren't very similar. Acting wrong knowingly under wrong premises is usually worse than acting late but rightly. On the other hand there might be parallels: Both situations (Hitler taking over Europe without much intervention) (flaky religious dictatorships in the middle east) arouse partly because of economical interest.
"Next step is to show Iran who's boss." Well, that is a very good summary of the level of US foreign politics the world got used to. This position makes people perceive the US as the largest risk for this planet.
If your country wouldn't have acted criminally in so many countries the last decades, supporting not peace and democracy but mostly supporting oppressive regimes because of economical or political interests you might be in a more plausible position.
Who installed the brutal Shah in Iran in 1953 for 25 years because the elected (nationalist) leader nationalized your oil-company?
You are in no position to lead anyone by example but you are just bigot and the bully on the schoolground beating up the enemy du jour leaving anything tainted that you touch.
Maybe you're just too old to care about the future?
Since you invaded Iraq there is no "bright idea"-way left. You fucked it up. You invaded your buddies (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/) country although you knew that there were no WMD (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593 607,00.html). You lied to everyone and nobody trusts you anymore. You did this purely for economical reasons (Enron et al.). Now you're spending your childrens educational and healthcare future and consitutional rights on a war you cannot win. Meanwhile educating every other evil empire that they a) neeeeed nuclead wapons b) haaaate the US and will support any stupid suicide bomber.
Obese bunker busters are the last thing that will help your country but the hammer that makes you see everything as a nail.
And no, there really is no bright solution to the problems left. And no, you are not really bright.
Well, if you've grown up in the US it's not very likely that your knowlegde about the Weimarer Reich, Hitler's Germany, WW2 and time of rebuilding is more complete than the knowlegde a person has who spent 13 years on a German school in Germany. If you're not from the US on the other hand - my history grades were more B than A, so I wouldn't be too confident then.
Your comparison between Hitler and Hussein however shows not a grain of historical knowlegde. The historical and political situations and mechanisms are just so completely different - except that there are people suffering and dying.
However, your comparison shows why one should have no faith that the US will recognize just HOW fucked up the situation really is now that they intervened officially. There is absolutely no way to fix what you have broken within the last years and every step you will / can take now will be another mile on the road to hell for us all.
Really, iran openly working on nuclear weapons and feeling justified about this because thats the only way that might keep the US out - what stupid step will you take next? Or what stupid steps will GOD tell your faith-based leader in their occasional talks? Whatever happens, your leader is absolutely confident that a) he's on a crusade b) there will be life after death for him.
So basically what you say is that funding death suaqs and napalming people and similar crimes are the only ways of intervention the world can expect from the US of A?
You're even more cynical than I am, why do you hate America so much?
Get your facts straight. I once talked to some Australian friends about the US and WW2 and they had some _very_ decent points to make about "freeing the world from Hitler et al.".
Basically it was something about the Commonwealth declaring war in 09/1939 while the US was still doing great business with Hitlers Germany and waiting until more than _two_years_later_ before entering (being declared) war. I - being a German - have NEVER met any member of any nation bragging about THEM freeing US from Hitler except from US-Americans who don't know the flying fsck about history.
Although I had a lot of interesting talks with people who lived during this time. I'm thankful for all the people who gave their life fighting this war, I'm thankful for all the people who helped rebuilding this mess (to build a strong country as an fortess against the evil communist world eastern of Germany) but I'm not thankful for most of the crimes your country commited afterwards.
Of course, there are US-Americans who aren't stupid, fat, lazy nutjobs, but it seems as if all of them left the country a while ago...
Well, it's complex enough to qualify as proper german, then:-)
At least, except from "single media" it makes perfect sense to me.
the real obstacle to backing up my exsisting commercial DVDs [is the] cost of single media [a single media] that is playable in a player With high definition writable media appearing already, will the price drop soon enough to help me overcome [this obstacle]
I'd bet that there is a linguist way to mark up and straighten such senctences.
If I recall correctly they say: "You have a monopoly in one area and are trying to become a monopoly in other areas by not providing sufficient information about your APIs etc. to enable other companies to fairly compete with you in these additional areas. You agreed on providing documents containing this missing information in a usuable, not discriminating way but your (published) documents are still a mess while you're using coherent documentation internally."
> It runs a real operating system > This, as a portable computer, is far more capable than a Newton.
Well, yes, Microsoft BOB XP. It tries to be everything and the kitchensink at once and will be mediocre in all aspects. Noboby needs a car with the horsepower and the crave for gasoline of a SUV shrinked down to the size of a "Smart"-car as a cart replacement when shopping. It's clunky and ugly. I hope it dies horribly and fast instead of becoming "industrial standard". I really hoped for something innovative.
you> 2)Show me some verification of the bias from trustworthy sources and I'll listen... you> Untill then, I'll support the people that are out there in the field. me> What do you do to support them? you> I thank every one of them I meet for the service they do.
So if you had seen "some verification" of the aforementioned bias this would somehow stop you from supporting those people (i.e. thanking everyone of them you see) ? Do you really think that because the military might be censoring the internet for it's members in a biased way that you should stop thanking those members for their work?
> Next time you attempt to make a joke.
Next time you try to play the "criticism is unpatriotic"-card, do it better.
> Here, we simply drag and drop then program the logic behind all those widgets > I taught VB myself using this method. > Current IDEs I have looked at make things confusing.
Nothing personal but: This explains much of the VB code I had the misfortune to see in my life.
> Until then, I'll support the people that are out there in the field.
Interesting.
What do you do to support them? Are you baking cookies for them? Writing postcarts? Having warm, fuzzy, strongly patriotic feelings? Wearing a stars and stripes slip? A bumper sticker?
Thanks, you are right - given this fact my posting doesn't seem to make as much sense as I tought.
But in general: It might be a good idea to publish a bounty online in a way that participants could use in court to prove that they were invited by a specific person to hack a specific machine. So signing a bounty doesn't look like a stupid idea to me.
Then he should put his gpg public key at http://test.doit.wisc.edu/ and sign and publish on slashdot an invitation to hack this machine to prove that he's the owner of this machine.
Well, we might be leading our lifes quite differently.
Most emails I do get (that make sense) do contain little to none quoted content. Be it work related or private emails.
And close to none of the legitimate emails contain any hyperlinks. And if they do, the amount of time it takes to copy the link to the webbrowser is about 1 second.
I tend to educate my friends and my customers about quoting, safety and some of them even about encryption and signatures.
But I really might live and work in a completely different context than you do and just started to appreciate it:-)
> Rails will probably be fantastic in about two years. Right now it's an immature > product that gets in your way constantly,
I have used RoR for some projects within the last 6 months and though it's far from being fantastic I don't feel as if it got in my way often. I really enjoy using Rails. Of course Rails is waaaaaay more inflexible than the fact that it's a framework for Ruby promises and it was a moving taget within the last months. And it's a distributed documentation project. In fact, some of the real beauty of Ruby is absolutely invisible and inaccessible using Rails.
It's based on some pragmatic decisions you have to comply - yes, the Rails metaphor fit's it quite well. Rails is on it's tracks. If these tracks are "Your Way" - as it is with most of my projects - it's already a really fast _and_ scenic route to take.
I agree on the esotheric error-messages. You get used to them if you start understanding how rails works. But they suck badly and eat up time.
Well, not in the Worst Way. I once used an IDE at university which error-message read "something's wrong":-)
k2r
(The system had a "No Help" Menu, too. It was for SML or Scheme, if I recall correctly.)
I do like to see any solutions that keep Windows shut, but:
> require internet inbound/outbound traffic through specific ports
You don't write too much about why you need internet traffic, but I guess it's just needed to provide remote access to the cameras and to store the images somewhere. To mee this sounds as if you'd need a VPN to connect all your equipment together and to keeping it completely separated from the internet.
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Maybe I'm naive because I don't know any autistic person, but why not just tell the person you are going to have a long talk to that you need to have nonverbal signals expressed explicitly through words?
It's not that computer-glasses would irritate people less than being told which channels of communication are not available in a talk.
Would that work? How do you people with autism / asperger do this?
Or would you be annoyed personally if somebody told you "sorry, but mersenne-primes are not an interesting topic for me"
k2r
I might add that I'm absolutely aware of the fact that some of these opressive governments served and serve my country's economical interests very well.
k2r
Yes, I mixed up the names of those two american companies - and it's funny because both are just such beautiful and prototypic symbols for different aspects of the US-American achievements in making this world a better place.
> You're getting your liberal propoganda mixed up.
Uh, "liberal propaganda" is a Fox News phrase that doesn't make much sense in any country but in the US.
> You're a moron.
Well, I'm a drug-addicted moron now, if I got your last two messages right. How impressive.
k2r
> I was comparing two situations where action vs. inaction made a hell of a difference.
Yes, you did. The problem is that these situations aren't very similar. Acting wrong knowingly under wrong premises is usually worse than acting late but rightly. On the other hand there might be parallels: Both situations (Hitler taking over Europe without much intervention) (flaky religious dictatorships in the middle east) arouse partly because of economical interest.
"Next step is to show Iran who's boss."
Well, that is a very good summary of the level of US foreign politics the world got used to.
This position makes people perceive the US as the largest risk for this planet.
If your country wouldn't have acted criminally in so many countries the last decades, supporting not peace and democracy but mostly supporting oppressive regimes because of economical or political interests you might be in a more plausible position.
Who installed the brutal Shah in Iran in 1953 for 25 years because the elected (nationalist) leader nationalized your oil-company?
You are in no position to lead anyone by example but you are just bigot and the bully on the schoolground beating up the enemy du jour leaving anything tainted that you touch.
k2r
> You haven't lived long enough.
3 607,00.html).
Maybe you're just too old to care about the future?
Since you invaded Iraq there is no "bright idea"-way left. You fucked it up. You invaded your buddies (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/) country although you knew that there were no WMD (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-159
You lied to everyone and nobody trusts you anymore. You did this purely for economical reasons (Enron et al.).
Now you're spending your childrens educational and healthcare future and consitutional rights on a war you cannot win.
Meanwhile educating every other evil empire that they a) neeeeed nuclead wapons b) haaaate the US and will support any stupid suicide bomber.
Obese bunker busters are the last thing that will help your country but the hammer that makes you see everything as a nail.
And no, there really is no bright solution to the problems left. And no, you are not really bright.
k2r
> I know the facts, probably better than you do.
Well, if you've grown up in the US it's not very likely that your knowlegde about the Weimarer Reich, Hitler's Germany, WW2 and time of rebuilding is more complete than the knowlegde a person has who spent 13 years on a German school in Germany.
If you're not from the US on the other hand - my history grades were more B than A, so I wouldn't be too confident then.
Your comparison between Hitler and Hussein however shows not a grain of historical knowlegde.
The historical and political situations and mechanisms are just so completely different - except that there are people suffering and dying.
However, your comparison shows why one should have no faith that the US will recognize just HOW fucked up the situation really is now that they intervened officially. There is absolutely no way to fix what you have broken within the last years and every step you will / can take now will be another mile on the road to hell for us all.
Really, iran openly working on nuclear weapons and feeling justified about this because thats the only way that might keep the US out - what stupid step will you take next?
Or what stupid steps will GOD tell your faith-based leader in their occasional talks? Whatever happens, your leader is absolutely confident that a) he's on a crusade b) there will be life after death for him.
The only thing that might safe us is cold fusion.
k2r
>> Funding death squads
>Are you for US intervention [...] or against it?
So basically what you say is that funding death suaqs and napalming people and similar crimes are the only ways of intervention the world can expect from the US of A?
You're even more cynical than I am, why do you hate America so much?
k2r
Get your facts straight.
I once talked to some Australian friends about the US and WW2 and they had some _very_ decent points to make about "freeing the world from Hitler et al.".
Basically it was something about the Commonwealth declaring war in 09/1939 while the US was still doing great business with Hitlers Germany and waiting until more than _two_years_later_ before entering (being declared) war.
I - being a German - have NEVER met any member of any nation bragging about THEM freeing US from Hitler except from US-Americans who don't know the flying fsck about history.
Although I had a lot of interesting talks with people who lived during this time. I'm thankful for all the people who gave their life fighting this war, I'm thankful for all the people who helped rebuilding this mess (to build a strong country as an fortess against the evil communist world eastern of Germany) but I'm not thankful for most of the crimes your country commited afterwards.
Of course, there are US-Americans who aren't stupid, fat, lazy nutjobs, but it seems as if all of them left the country a while ago...
k2r
IIRC People in the sauna of the youth-hostel in Sidney in 2000 did, too.
Swimsuits in the sauna, strange.
I wouldn't have guessed since people down there seem to be quite relaxed and European in general.
k2r
Well, it's complex enough to qualify as proper german, then :-)
At least, except from "single media" it makes perfect sense to me.
the real obstacle to backing up my exsisting commercial DVDs
[is the]
cost of single media
[a single media]
that is playable in a player
With high definition writable media appearing already, will the price drop soon enough to help me overcome [this obstacle]
I'd bet that there is a linguist way to mark up and straighten such senctences.
k2r
And microsoft having a subdomain to host this insufficient documentation does say what exactly?
If I recall correctly they say:
"You have a monopoly in one area and are trying to become a monopoly in other areas by not providing sufficient information about your APIs etc. to enable other companies to fairly compete with you in these additional areas.
You agreed on providing documents containing this missing information in a usuable, not discriminating way but your (published) documents are still a mess while you're using coherent documentation internally."
k2r
> It runs a real operating system
> This, as a portable computer, is far more capable than a Newton.
Well, yes, Microsoft BOB XP.
It tries to be everything and the kitchensink at once and will be mediocre in all aspects.
Noboby needs a car with the horsepower and the crave for gasoline of a SUV shrinked down to the size of a "Smart"-car as a cart replacement when shopping.
It's clunky and ugly.
I hope it dies horribly and fast instead of becoming "industrial standard".
I really hoped for something innovative.
Apple, please reincarnate the Newton.
k2r
Thanks for answering.
you> 2)Show me some verification of the bias from trustworthy sources and I'll listen...
you> Untill then, I'll support the people that are out there in the field.
me> What do you do to support them?
you> I thank every one of them I meet for the service they do.
So if you had seen "some verification" of the aforementioned bias this would somehow stop you from supporting those people (i.e. thanking everyone of them you see) ?
Do you really think that because the military might be censoring the internet for it's members in a biased way that you should stop thanking those members for their work?
> Next time you attempt to make a joke.
Next time you try to play the "criticism is unpatriotic"-card, do it better.
k2r
> sanity checking, authorization, the SQL the page needs and nothing more,
Don't repeat yourself:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself
k2r
> Here, we simply drag and drop then program the logic behind all those widgets
> I taught VB myself using this method.
> Current IDEs I have looked at make things confusing.
Nothing personal but: This explains much of the VB code I had the misfortune to see in my life.
k2r
> Until then, I'll support the people that are out there in the field.
Interesting.
What do you do to support them? Are you baking cookies for them? Writing postcarts?
Having warm, fuzzy, strongly patriotic feelings?
Wearing a stars and stripes slip? A bumper sticker?
k2r
Yes, some Dave Schroeder seems to be.
But my basic CS-paranoia asks me:
"Is this specific person, who posted this specific article containing a bounty on slashdot 'the' Dave Schroeder."
Since hacking while not being invited might lead to ridiculously severe punishment nowadays I personally wanted to be absolutely sure about this.
k2r
Thanks, you are right - given this fact my posting doesn't seem to make as much sense as I tought.
But in general:
It might be a good idea to publish a bounty online in a way that participants could use in court to prove that they were invited by a specific person to hack a specific machine.
So signing a bounty doesn't look like a stupid idea to me.
k2r
Then he should put his gpg public key at
http://test.doit.wisc.edu/ and sign and publish on slashdot an invitation to hack this machine to prove that he's the owner of this machine.
k2r
Well, we might be leading our lifes quite differently.
:-)
Most emails I do get (that make sense) do contain little to none quoted content.
Be it work related or private emails.
And close to none of the legitimate emails contain any hyperlinks.
And if they do, the amount of time it takes to copy the link to the webbrowser is about 1 second.
I tend to educate my friends and my customers about quoting, safety and some of them even about encryption and signatures.
But I really might live and work in a completely different context than you do and just started to appreciate it
k2r
- If an AOL user wants to include part of your email in their reply to you, they have to copy and paste it themselves,
Wow, this is a Good Thing. People might ending up only quoting part of the emails and not attaching the whole fscking thread they answer on.
- And the best of them all: plaintext emails to AOL members do not have URLs hyperlinked!
So people can not just click on every link they see but have to copy and paste to catch the latest Windows Virus? Good Thing.
"me, too."
k2r
> Rails will probably be fantastic in about two years. Right now it's an immature
:-)
> product that gets in your way constantly,
I have used RoR for some projects within the last 6 months and though it's far from being fantastic I don't feel as if it got in my way often. I really enjoy using Rails.
Of course Rails is waaaaaay more inflexible than the fact that it's a framework for Ruby promises and it was a moving taget within the last months. And it's a distributed documentation project.
In fact, some of the real beauty of Ruby is absolutely invisible and inaccessible using Rails.
It's based on some pragmatic decisions you have to comply - yes, the Rails metaphor fit's it quite well.
Rails is on it's tracks. If these tracks are "Your Way" - as it is with most of my projects - it's already a really fast _and_ scenic route to take.
I agree on the esotheric error-messages. You get used to them if you start understanding how rails works. But they suck badly and eat up time.
Well, not in the Worst Way. I once used an IDE at university which error-message read "something's wrong"
k2r
(The system had a "No Help" Menu, too. It was for SML or Scheme, if I recall correctly.)
> Ruby is a free spirit. It grows in like, the sunshine. It doesn't obey your rules!
It's more like "Ruby doesn't get in your way!" as Rails dosn't do (most of the time) and OSX avoids to do quite successfully , too.
Chunky. Bacon.
k2r
I do like to see any solutions that keep Windows shut, but:
> require internet inbound/outbound traffic through specific ports
You don't write too much about why you need internet traffic, but I guess it's just needed to provide remote access to the cameras and to store the images somewhere.
To mee this sounds as if you'd need a VPN to connect all your equipment together and to keeping it completely separated from the internet.
k2r.