I think this is an excellent question. While I know that this question is rather important in the US I don't feel as if it was as important in old Europe. I guess it's mostly a religious / moral thing that is not that important in secular countries.
Basically, as a GWM I think "It doesn't matter whether 'It's' a choice, my love-life is just none of your business." or in other words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5YrB7TpT1Y
> No vaccination, by choice? Get the hell away from my kids.
What about if there's a measles case in too-young-to-immunized kids around them they should be held responsible. I mean - if you choose to be a danger to society you should not be part of it.
> last I checked, the firewall GUI only exists in OSX Server
The firewall switch is in "System Preferences -> Security -> Firewall". There's a button that reads "Start" and it is accompanied by a label that reads "Click Start to turn the firewall on".
I agree that this may be hard to find for some, especially if they can't read AND hear.
From my experience the optimum process just depends from company culture and team culture and how clear the requirements are.
The _only_ constant observation I made is that every project that did not test on every level, passionately, very early and continuously was doomed. If you don't define and prove quality you will not deliver quality. If you test you will define what you build. The more complete your tests are, and the higher levels they reach, the more you and your customer know where you are heading to.
"Just build your idea" may feel good at first, but your team will suffer and burn at the most inconvenient point in time.
DO TEST. A LOT. AND THEN MORE. AUTOMATE. EMBRACE YOUR TESTERS. OR ELSE.
It's way easier to be creative if when can be sure that your project will not die a horrible death.
2) sell books online in unencumbered PDF/ePub 3) let customers use the application and platform of their choice 4) Profit!
I'm sure neither "pragmatic programmer" nor O'Reilly have to worry about their business model - both sell tons of ebooks in open formats. This move by Apple may lead to ebooks that are as open as music files are nowadays.
keeps a list of recently viewed websites. Mozilla Foundation is spying on you!
This is about the same as Apple has done here. Caching a list of recently seen (or possibly seen based on your location) antennae with their location (not: your location but theirs) to give your GPS a faster fix next time. However, while a limit of 2MB browsercache is ridiculously low it turned out that 2MB for location-data is a lot and at least if people turn off GPS this cache could be purged. And saving data on the location of seen GSM Towers while GPS is turned off (some provide them themselves ota) may lead to misunderstandings.
Nothing to see here but a unintendedly big size limit and a dissonance between engineers thinking "Location is not provided to Apps" and user experience "no location data even if acquired passively is used in any way".
The other topic - saving your position _for_a_day_ and sending the visible antennae to Apple anonymized - is something completely different.
> Last time I check Slashdot wasn't some Hollywood gossip blog.
1) What Hollywood? She wasn't American. 2) Doctor Who is a cultural phenomenon most British and many internatonal readers of Slashdot grew up with. Hell, I was born in the year Elisabeth Sladen became the compagnon and though I'm not even British I know her. Slashdot is about culture and those things are part of geek culture.
There is a really great article connecting this to Bible prophecy
Yes, and my cat told me he read from the poo in it's litterbox that the world is going to end soon, too. I'm still amazed of the state of mind of those people.
> Germany has/had a three tier system, why shouldn't we?
It's funny that in Germany the discussion usually ends with "the US does not have thisOrThat let's just get rid of it, too!" Thats how we basically broke our universities beyond repair a few years ago.
I learned Latin at school from being 10 up to 17 years old. That's quite common in Germany on public schools and the idea is that it makes you learn other roman languages more easily, trains your sense of logic and educates you to learn stuff you can not directly apply anything.
And being capable of translating roman inscriptions impresses friends who are not from old Europe:)
The point I'm trying to make is that a child's brain needs challenges, math, languages and history are good, complex challenges and learning them not only trains your brain but knowing them gives a common cultural base.
> I hate the idea of the FBI tracking people too - but the harsh reality is, > that's the only way to stop my prediction from becoming a reality.
There's absolutely no way for the FBI to stop all stupid movieplots like yours from happening. What IS stopping those from happening more frequently than average car accidents is that there are not enough pissed off crazy people to execute those plans.
I'm pretty sure that at least 25% of the slashdotters could come up with a plan to cause maximum harm while "sacrificing" themselves. However, luckily for the rest of us, nearly nobody is that crazy. Though we're working on pissing off a significant percentage of the planets inhabitants to become like that...
> [...] casual rulebreaking and low-level disorder is everywhere [in South Europe], and makes for a very uncomfortable environment. > [...] Barcelona and Madrid have made them hazardous places indeed
Wow, being a German I consider especially Barcelona to be one of the most beautiful and entertaining cities in old Europe.
> Obviously it's a Rodent Of Unusual Size. The most obvious feature defining rodents are their teeth. The most obvious feature of the newly discovered animal to see in the picture(s) are its teeth which are about as non rodent as an animal's teeth can be.
Slashdot Mirror
I just read
"Everything that can be inverted has been inverted"
(need more coffee)
I think this is an excellent question. While I know that this question is rather important in the US I don't feel as if it was as important in old Europe. I guess it's mostly a religious / moral thing that is not that important in secular countries.
Basically, as a GWM I think "It doesn't matter whether 'It's' a choice, my love-life is just none of your business." or in other words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5YrB7TpT1Y
> the difference between a serial killer or someone who qualifies for the death penalty and an unborn child? Seriously?
I can't, at least not concerning that peoples life. Did you give life to them? What makes you think you should be allowed to take their life?
>Sun hardware was robust.
So robust that we had to send an entre RAID to Ontrack because of a firmware-glitch in 2001.
> No vaccination, by choice? Get the hell away from my kids.
What about if there's a measles case in too-young-to-immunized kids around them they should be held responsible. I mean - if you choose to be a danger to society you should not be part of it.
Sounds like she needs an iPad and an external keyboard.
Been there, aunt is happy.
> I bet it didn't study aromatherapy
I bet a PRG would be sufficient for this...
> Are they dumping toxic chemicals?
They are dumping toxic laws and precedences into judicial systems all over the world.
> Fair enough, but what is it backed by?
Mathematics.
> last I checked, the firewall GUI only exists in OSX Server
The firewall switch is in "System Preferences -> Security -> Firewall".
There's a button that reads "Start" and it is accompanied by a label that reads "Click Start to turn the firewall on".
I agree that this may be hard to find for some, especially if they can't read AND hear.
From my experience the optimum process just depends from company culture and team culture and how clear the requirements are.
The _only_ constant observation I made is that every project that did not test on every level, passionately, very early and continuously was doomed. If you don't define and prove quality you will not deliver quality. If you test you will define what you build. The more complete your tests are, and the higher levels they reach, the more you and your customer know where you are heading to.
"Just build your idea" may feel good at first, but your team will suffer and burn at the most inconvenient point in time.
DO TEST. A LOT. AND THEN MORE. AUTOMATE.
EMBRACE YOUR TESTERS. OR ELSE.
It's way easier to be creative if when can be sure that your project will not die a horrible death.
2) sell books online in unencumbered PDF/ePub
3) let customers use the application and platform of their choice
4) Profit!
I'm sure neither "pragmatic programmer" nor O'Reilly have to worry about their business model - both sell tons of ebooks in open formats. This move by Apple may lead to ebooks that are as open as music files are nowadays.
that you were told that some virtual LEGO would be the programming language of the future about 30 times the last two decades, alone.
That is, if you are old enough.
keeps a list of recently viewed websites. Mozilla Foundation is spying on you!
This is about the same as Apple has done here. Caching a list of recently seen (or possibly seen based on your location) antennae with their location (not: your location but theirs) to give your GPS a faster fix next time.
However, while a limit of 2MB browsercache is ridiculously low it turned out that 2MB for location-data is a lot and at least if people turn off GPS this cache could be purged. And saving data on the location of seen GSM Towers while GPS is turned off (some provide them themselves ota) may lead to misunderstandings.
Nothing to see here but a unintendedly big size limit and a dissonance between engineers thinking "Location is not provided to Apps" and user experience "no location data even if acquired passively is used in any way".
The other topic - saving your position _for_a_day_ and sending the visible antennae to Apple anonymized - is something completely different.
> Last time I check Slashdot wasn't some Hollywood gossip blog.
1) What Hollywood? She wasn't American.
2) Doctor Who is a cultural phenomenon most British and many internatonal readers of Slashdot grew up with. Hell, I was born in the year Elisabeth Sladen became the compagnon and though I'm not even British I know her.
Slashdot is about culture and those things are part of geek culture.
Read the interview with a mother of one the Fukushima workers and then come back:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/03/mother-fukushima-worker/36240/
They will all die gruesome death, they even don't have enough dosimeters.
There is a really great article connecting this to Bible prophecy
Yes, and my cat told me he read from the poo in it's litterbox that the world is going to end soon, too.
I'm still amazed of the state of mind of those people.
> Germany has/had a three tier system, why shouldn't we?
It's funny that in Germany the discussion usually ends with "the US does not have thisOrThat let's just get rid of it, too!"
Thats how we basically broke our universities beyond repair a few years ago.
I learned Latin at school from being 10 up to 17 years old. That's quite common in Germany on public schools and the idea is that it makes you learn other roman languages more easily, trains your sense of logic and educates you to learn stuff you can not directly apply anything.
And being capable of translating roman inscriptions impresses friends who are not from old Europe :)
The point I'm trying to make is that a child's brain needs challenges, math, languages and history are good, complex challenges and learning them not only trains your brain but knowing them gives a common cultural base.
> if you don't believe so you're a fool.
That's what she said!
> I hate the idea of the FBI tracking people too - but the harsh reality is,
> that's the only way to stop my prediction from becoming a reality.
There's absolutely no way for the FBI to stop all stupid movieplots like yours from happening.
What IS stopping those from happening more frequently than average car accidents is that there are not enough pissed off crazy people to execute those plans.
I'm pretty sure that at least 25% of the slashdotters could come up with a plan to cause maximum harm while "sacrificing" themselves.
However, luckily for the rest of us, nearly nobody is that crazy. Though we're working on pissing off a significant percentage of the planets inhabitants to become like that...
> [...] casual rulebreaking and low-level disorder is everywhere [in South Europe], and makes for a very uncomfortable environment.
> [...] Barcelona and Madrid have made them hazardous places indeed
Wow, being a German I consider especially Barcelona to be one of the most beautiful and entertaining cities in old Europe.
> Obviously it's a Rodent Of Unusual Size.
The most obvious feature defining rodents are their teeth.
The most obvious feature of the newly discovered animal to see in the picture(s) are its teeth which are about as non rodent as an animal's teeth can be.
> apps get pulled [...] from their phones
This is a lie, so the rest of our posting is most likey lies, too.
Wow, I guess I didn't think of Core Wars within this millenium, yet.
I have something fine to play with during the holidays.
Thank you very much!