So the question is whether you walk away with a chip on your shoulder and a sneer on your lips and make it that much harder for your Latino immigrant brethren to get along in Swedish society or whether you graciously smile and act like a human being towards the lady.
You know what, we all know you're an individual. Unfortunately, you are an individual of a group of people who look similar to you and dissimilar to the rest of the population. That means you will be prejudged by people based on their stereotypes of that group. Sucks, but it's true.
Do you perpetuate the belief that Latinos are hotheaded, unkempt womanizers? Or do you chip away at that stereotype by acting like a human being even to those who mistreat you?
Sounds, from your post, that you'd rather have your long hair, act like a boor, and make the excuse that your people have been kept down in the past so it's time you got your due. If only it worked that way, esse.
This likely has nothing to do with the story at all. I am tripping on my first hit of LSD. Don't ask how I got it, the little elf who brought it shall remain nameless.;-)
The first thing I've noticed (besides the obvious euphoria) is what seems like an increase in my ability to concentrate. The keyboard itself feels like it is part of my brain and typing is just a matter of thinking. Typing is not a matter of moving my fingers so much as it is a matter of flying through the keyboard.
The screen itself is various colors, a vast improvement over the standard Slashdot color scheme, let me tell you. To liken it to something that I've had experience with, it's similar to watching a lava lamp except with multiple colors. It's like visual goo.
My Playstation 2 (the predecessor of the PS3) is sea-blue but it also seems to contain various colors. Beyond that, it seems to float and move on its own. The controllers emerge from the console like tentacles seeking cartoon schoolgirls. The controllers are calling me. Santa... Santa... I don't suppose you've ever been called by an inanimate object?
Nande kono saito ga konna ni attraction ga aru no kana. Honto ni tsumannai koto bakkari, onaji koto wo nankai mo sai-posto wo surunda. But the lights are flickering. The computer is flickering. Gotta stop. Pressing Submit.
I guess that the gaming culture breeds a sort of insensitivity to death, and that's the reason Kasavin is so easily able to put a "bullet to the head" of his column. Forgive me if I find such phrasing to be in bad taste.
While some factors, both genetic and external, may lead to the divergence of form in venal positioning and number, the chance that two people have similar (if not identical) veinous patterns is not small.
Medicine is based on the supposition that human beings are, at a very basic level, extremely similar to each other. This allows us to give generalized prescriptions instead of having to perform meticulous measuring and experimentation to determine the correct level of drugs to give to a person.
Even Da Vinci noticed that many measurements of human bones were precisely measurable using the Golden Ratio. Humans, and most of Nature, is perfectly balanced so as to result in a great homogeneity across the species. Even in our day-to-day life we sometimes encounter "spitting images" of people we know. Some even make a living impersonating famous people.
I find it worrisome that the verification of something as personal and important as someone's identity is based on something as common and repeatable as the pattern and layout of veins.
But consider how deeply some lives of normal non-geeks have been affected by MMOGs like Everquest. The difference between MMOGs and a monthly pass at your local video arcade is that the MMOG provides for a level of social interaction that simply isn't present in normal games.
The communication aspect of the game is built directly into the game, so for many people who are not typical gamers are able to enjoy the MMOG whereas they would be turned off by something like Pac-man. So it isn't that MMOGs need hardcore players to survive. Rather it is the style of the game itself that leads players to become "hardcore players" that are online all the time.
Surely you mean that the people get the government that the majority deserves. I don't think we can say that any of the people voting for Gore or McCain in 2000 or Kerry in 2004 deserve the current U.S. administration.
So what is the giving-a-fuck minority to do when they are overwhelmed in numbers by Joe Sixpack?
If the government were truly representative of the People, you wouldn't have trouble with openness. As it stands, though, the People care more about their Big Macs and SUVs than voting.
This project is doomed to stagnate. The People are satisfied with their little flag bumper stickers and patriotic country music. They have little interest in the minutiae of government.
And who blames them? That's the reason we have representatives in the first place.
I understand the need for good intelligence in making national security policy, but flying spyplanes over the airspace of your friends and enemies alike isn't going to win you any brownie points, and as the US has already experienced with the U2 (the crashed plane, not the band that's selling out), one crashed spyplane can lead to a hell of a lot of trouble.
Spying is a nasty business, and I guess it's a necessary evil, but the person in charge of announcing new toys at Aerovironment must be completely braindead. Someone at the State department ought to go have a talk with those good folks.
What these ninnies need is an aerodynamic inflatable pillow that they can launch. The astronauts can all sit around and sing Kum ba yah while hugging each other and reassuring that they are safe. Plus, some added crayons, construction paper, and safety scissors could be kept around in case the pillow needs some repair or decoration during the flight.
No sense in taking any risks, I suppose. We could have them sit on the launch pad and make VVRRRROOOOOMMMMM sounds until they get tuckered out and have to take a nap. No one will ever get hurt doing that. Maybe we should give them helmets in case they fall over while pretending to take off
The onus is on you (well, on anyone who wants to challenge the patent), then, to provide that prior art.
It will be difficult, I imagine, because Amazon is one of the pioneers of ecommerce, so much of what they have done has been original within the context of the Internet. Many technologies used by Amazon were mimicked by other online retailers, so it ought to be no surprise that there were various examples of it implemented while the patent was pending.
I've worked with my fair share of windowing APIs and QT's OO approach to the problem is very well done. On the one extreme we have the heavy MFC which has grown out of control into a mammoth mess. wxwindows, pretty much a clone of MFC, shares the same issues as MFC. WTL seems hopeful, if only anyone was using it and it had any sort of support.
The Win32 and Gnome APIs are written in C, so though they are fast, they doesn't get any of the programming benefits of Object Orientation.
Thought it has a funny macro kludges in certain places, the QT API is absolutely a joy to work with.
By posting comments rather than actual content, I am able to raise awareness of who I am without having to invest the time in actually doing serious writing. I can offer my opinions on any number of topics without having to find those topics. Many times, my opinions do not reflect the current zeitgeist of any blog I comment upon, but that is one way of garnering readers interested in my comments.
Let's face it, blogs are vanity projects. You could just as simply write in your paper diary and keep it under your pillow like a little girl. Instead, you choose to put your diary on the web and open it up for criticism and comments. This is just another way of demanding attention. Unfortunately, that is pretty time consuming and troublesome. Having to come up with original content every day to keep people coming back to your blog is pretty difficult. Imagine having to make yourself heard in the cacophony of spam blogs. It's a fool's errand.
Which, as I mentioned before, is why I stick with commenting in other people's blogs. I gain all the notoriety of providing interesting and insightful content without having to provide actual content.
It's been easier to become popular by doing this than trying to compete with spam blogs.
There used to be a time when companies didn't send Cease & Desist letters. They just subpoenaed the offending party and took them to court. This was looked down on because sometimes the poor little copyright violator didn't realize what he was doing wrong and was suddenly staring down the legal departments of the big guys. So they came up with the idea of C&Ds which give fair warning to any party who might be offending the party in question.
It was a method of 1) encouraging the offending party to see the error of his ways and stop doing the bad thing, and 2) to establish in no uncertain terms that the offending party was aware that their actions were causing offence.
With that, everyone and their brother started sending C&Ds instead of actually suing. It's cheaper and doesn't require any court action, so both sides come out way ahead if the C&D works.
Unfortunately they have become so much like "Final Notice" bills that just seem to keep coming without actually reaching a conclusion. Offenders just toss the C&D in the trash and the Offended just send another C&D. Neither side really wants to take it to court because that would entail actual lawyering.
There ought to be a law that mandates that only one C&D per offence may be sent to any customer. Once that has been ignored for a certain amount of time, the offended party would either have to stop sending it or actually take the offender to court.
I'd love to see some P2P violators squirm in the courtroom. Currently they hide behind their anonymity and the knowledge that despite any C&D they receive, that many others are also receiving them and the odds of actually getting tapped by the RIAA is slim to none.
The law specifies that this is a proper course of action.
The fact is that the law does not support the "right to share" when it becomes massive intellectual property piracy. To believe differently is to be deluded.
You can change the law, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of money. Guess who has that. That's right! YOU and all your filesharing friends. Unfortunately it is the record companies who are going out of their way to influence elected officials and getting the laws that they want passed. Meanwhile, you (the general "you") sit on your ass and bitch and moan about how the RIAA is being a bunch of bastards.
Get organized and get active. The only way you can stop this kind of action is to make it illegal.
Just like our own Moon, Mars' moons were probably formed at the same time that Mars was formed. As the galactic dust swirled around the Sun, it slowly clumped together and grew into large planets. As each planet grew larger, they became an elliptical focal point for the surrounding space dust and trapped moons into orbit around themselves.
So that's why we have moons around planets. It's also why they rotate and revolve very periodically.
Phobos is going to be just like our moon. Dead.
Better to send a probe to one of those moons with liquid like Titan or Europa. Much more interesting things to find there.
If the cost of downloading that software/music is zero, then why would I pay more than that?
Your post is a self-justification for your refusal to follow the law. Yes, people don't like being ripped off, but no one is forcing them to buy the music or software.
The same goes for the "I'll try it and buy it if I like it" and "I can't afford it, so the company isn't losing any money anyway" crowds.
I don't know when this attitude of entitlement started becoming so prevalent. It seems to have reached a fever pitch in the past couple years.
There has been a popular meme throughout history, back to the days of the Old Testament that said that beggars were entitled to the excess of any farmer's crop. If the vagrant were to walk past a farm, they could take as much as they needed from the outer ring of crops, but they were not to venture inside.
This is because it is thought that the person doing the work of farming had more than enough to feed himself and his family, after all, he's got huge tracts of land and will sell the amount he doesn't keep for himself at the market. What little scraps are taken by the passing beggar will hardly be missed.
The same attitude exists with regards to copyrighted materials. "I, one lone person, can't possibly make a dent in the amount of revenue that the copyright owner will make." (It's the same reason many people don't vote.) And they are correct. Individually, they make no impact on the final numbers. They aren't even a rounding error in many cases. But in large numbers, all these individuals refusing to pay for the material (to the copyright owners) make a huge impact.
When every vagrant takes their "fair share" from the outer ring of a crop field, the crop gets smaller and smaller until the farmer and his family starve.
The way you've mentioned works fine if you are only going to display static strings, but if you wish to display dynamic strings you will need a different approach.
Languages like English are SVO while other languages are SOV. Throw in a few extra grammar rules and a simple string substitution scheme becomes impossible because printf("%s %s %s", S, V, O); will simply not create correct strings for any language that uses a different ordering.
It's kind of funny that none of the ads on that page loaded, nor do any doubleclick website IPs load.
I surf in good faith. Good faith that my browser won't be hijacked by full-page ads, good faith that any advertisements won't chew up unnecessary CPU time, and good faith that advertisements will typically be for things I am interested in.
Doubleclick's ads fail every single of those points. So they can go cry in their soup. As should any site losing advertising revenue because they use the Doubleclick scum.
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So the question is whether you walk away with a chip on your shoulder and a sneer on your lips and make it that much harder for your Latino immigrant brethren to get along in Swedish society or whether you graciously smile and act like a human being towards the lady.
You know what, we all know you're an individual. Unfortunately, you are an individual of a group of people who look similar to you and dissimilar to the rest of the population. That means you will be prejudged by people based on their stereotypes of that group. Sucks, but it's true.
Do you perpetuate the belief that Latinos are hotheaded, unkempt womanizers? Or do you chip away at that stereotype by acting like a human being even to those who mistreat you?
Sounds, from your post, that you'd rather have your long hair, act like a boor, and make the excuse that your people have been kept down in the past so it's time you got your due. If only it worked that way, esse.
This likely has nothing to do with the story at all. I am tripping on my first hit of LSD. Don't ask how I got it, the little elf who brought it shall remain nameless. ;-)
The first thing I've noticed (besides the obvious euphoria) is what seems like an increase in my ability to concentrate. The keyboard itself feels like it is part of my brain and typing is just a matter of thinking. Typing is not a matter of moving my fingers so much as it is a matter of flying through the keyboard.
The screen itself is various colors, a vast improvement over the standard Slashdot color scheme, let me tell you. To liken it to something that I've had experience with, it's similar to watching a lava lamp except with multiple colors. It's like visual goo.
My Playstation 2 (the predecessor of the PS3) is sea-blue but it also seems to contain various colors. Beyond that, it seems to float and move on its own. The controllers emerge from the console like tentacles seeking cartoon schoolgirls. The controllers are calling me. Santa... Santa... I don't suppose you've ever been called by an inanimate object?
Nande kono saito ga konna ni attraction ga aru no kana. Honto ni tsumannai koto bakkari, onaji koto wo nankai mo sai-posto wo surunda. But the lights are flickering. The computer is flickering. Gotta stop. Pressing Submit.
Submit.
I guess that the gaming culture breeds a sort of insensitivity to death, and that's the reason Kasavin is so easily able to put a "bullet to the head" of his column. Forgive me if I find such phrasing to be in bad taste.
While some factors, both genetic and external, may lead to the divergence of form in venal positioning and number, the chance that two people have similar (if not identical) veinous patterns is not small.
Medicine is based on the supposition that human beings are, at a very basic level, extremely similar to each other. This allows us to give generalized prescriptions instead of having to perform meticulous measuring and experimentation to determine the correct level of drugs to give to a person.
Even Da Vinci noticed that many measurements of human bones were precisely measurable using the Golden Ratio. Humans, and most of Nature, is perfectly balanced so as to result in a great homogeneity across the species. Even in our day-to-day life we sometimes encounter "spitting images" of people we know. Some even make a living impersonating famous people.
I find it worrisome that the verification of something as personal and important as someone's identity is based on something as common and repeatable as the pattern and layout of veins.
But consider how deeply some lives of normal non-geeks have been affected by MMOGs like Everquest. The difference between MMOGs and a monthly pass at your local video arcade is that the MMOG provides for a level of social interaction that simply isn't present in normal games.
The communication aspect of the game is built directly into the game, so for many people who are not typical gamers are able to enjoy the MMOG whereas they would be turned off by something like Pac-man. So it isn't that MMOGs need hardcore players to survive. Rather it is the style of the game itself that leads players to become "hardcore players" that are online all the time.
Surely you mean that the people get the government that the majority deserves. I don't think we can say that any of the people voting for Gore or McCain in 2000 or Kerry in 2004 deserve the current U.S. administration.
So what is the giving-a-fuck minority to do when they are overwhelmed in numbers by Joe Sixpack?
If the government were truly representative of the People, you wouldn't have trouble with openness. As it stands, though, the People care more about their Big Macs and SUVs than voting.
This project is doomed to stagnate. The People are satisfied with their little flag bumper stickers and patriotic country music. They have little interest in the minutiae of government.
And who blames them? That's the reason we have representatives in the first place.
I understand the need for good intelligence in making national security policy, but flying spyplanes over the airspace of your friends and enemies alike isn't going to win you any brownie points, and as the US has already experienced with the U2 (the crashed plane, not the band that's selling out), one crashed spyplane can lead to a hell of a lot of trouble.
Spying is a nasty business, and I guess it's a necessary evil, but the person in charge of announcing new toys at Aerovironment must be completely braindead. Someone at the State department ought to go have a talk with those good folks.
Don't these Andover guys let you take a couple days off to do personal stuff like move? Seems like the strain has put your mind elsewhere.
Hope you get better soon!
C'mon, fess up anonymous submitter. You only submitted this to see if timothy would post another duplicate, this time a triplicate in fact.
timothy, everything going okay? Anything you want to talk about?
Some people were able to find that this is the second time this article has been duplicated.
And timothy's third duplicate of the night!
first Morse article
second Morse article
What these ninnies need is an aerodynamic inflatable pillow that they can launch. The astronauts can all sit around and sing Kum ba yah while hugging each other and reassuring that they are safe. Plus, some added crayons, construction paper, and safety scissors could be kept around in case the pillow needs some repair or decoration during the flight.
No sense in taking any risks, I suppose. We could have them sit on the launch pad and make VVRRRROOOOOMMMMM sounds until they get tuckered out and have to take a nap. No one will ever get hurt doing that. Maybe we should give them helmets in case they fall over while pretending to take off
The onus is on you (well, on anyone who wants to challenge the patent), then, to provide that prior art.
It will be difficult, I imagine, because Amazon is one of the pioneers of ecommerce, so much of what they have done has been original within the context of the Internet. Many technologies used by Amazon were mimicked by other online retailers, so it ought to be no surprise that there were various examples of it implemented while the patent was pending.
I've worked with my fair share of windowing APIs and QT's OO approach to the problem is very well done. On the one extreme we have the heavy MFC which has grown out of control into a mammoth mess. wxwindows, pretty much a clone of MFC, shares the same issues as MFC. WTL seems hopeful, if only anyone was using it and it had any sort of support.
The Win32 and Gnome APIs are written in C, so though they are fast, they doesn't get any of the programming benefits of Object Orientation.
Thought it has a funny macro kludges in certain places, the QT API is absolutely a joy to work with.
"It" will end when you come up with a good idea and try to patent that idea and then get shouted down by the Slashdot peanut gallery.
"It" is your thinking that people shouldn't get rewarded for their research.
But all the links lead to either Indymedia or pro-Indymedia sites.
It would be nice to get an unbiased source of this news, especially since Indymedia can't be expected to report on itself without bias.
By posting comments rather than actual content, I am able to raise awareness of who I am without having to invest the time in actually doing serious writing. I can offer my opinions on any number of topics without having to find those topics. Many times, my opinions do not reflect the current zeitgeist of any blog I comment upon, but that is one way of garnering readers interested in my comments.
Let's face it, blogs are vanity projects. You could just as simply write in your paper diary and keep it under your pillow like a little girl. Instead, you choose to put your diary on the web and open it up for criticism and comments. This is just another way of demanding attention. Unfortunately, that is pretty time consuming and troublesome. Having to come up with original content every day to keep people coming back to your blog is pretty difficult. Imagine having to make yourself heard in the cacophony of spam blogs. It's a fool's errand.
Which, as I mentioned before, is why I stick with commenting in other people's blogs. I gain all the notoriety of providing interesting and insightful content without having to provide actual content.
It's been easier to become popular by doing this than trying to compete with spam blogs.
There used to be a time when companies didn't send Cease & Desist letters. They just subpoenaed the offending party and took them to court. This was looked down on because sometimes the poor little copyright violator didn't realize what he was doing wrong and was suddenly staring down the legal departments of the big guys. So they came up with the idea of C&Ds which give fair warning to any party who might be offending the party in question.
It was a method of 1) encouraging the offending party to see the error of his ways and stop doing the bad thing, and 2) to establish in no uncertain terms that the offending party was aware that their actions were causing offence.
With that, everyone and their brother started sending C&Ds instead of actually suing. It's cheaper and doesn't require any court action, so both sides come out way ahead if the C&D works.
Unfortunately they have become so much like "Final Notice" bills that just seem to keep coming without actually reaching a conclusion. Offenders just toss the C&D in the trash and the Offended just send another C&D. Neither side really wants to take it to court because that would entail actual lawyering.
There ought to be a law that mandates that only one C&D per offence may be sent to any customer. Once that has been ignored for a certain amount of time, the offended party would either have to stop sending it or actually take the offender to court.
I'd love to see some P2P violators squirm in the courtroom. Currently they hide behind their anonymity and the knowledge that despite any C&D they receive, that many others are also receiving them and the odds of actually getting tapped by the RIAA is slim to none.
The law specifies that this is a proper course of action.
The fact is that the law does not support the "right to share" when it becomes massive intellectual property piracy. To believe differently is to be deluded.
You can change the law, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of money. Guess who has that. That's right! YOU and all your filesharing friends. Unfortunately it is the record companies who are going out of their way to influence elected officials and getting the laws that they want passed. Meanwhile, you (the general "you") sit on your ass and bitch and moan about how the RIAA is being a bunch of bastards.
Get organized and get active. The only way you can stop this kind of action is to make it illegal.
Just like our own Moon, Mars' moons were probably formed at the same time that Mars was formed. As the galactic dust swirled around the Sun, it slowly clumped together and grew into large planets. As each planet grew larger, they became an elliptical focal point for the surrounding space dust and trapped moons into orbit around themselves.
So that's why we have moons around planets. It's also why they rotate and revolve very periodically.
Phobos is going to be just like our moon. Dead.
Better to send a probe to one of those moons with liquid like Titan or Europa. Much more interesting things to find there.
If the cost of downloading that software/music is zero, then why would I pay more than that?
Your post is a self-justification for your refusal to follow the law. Yes, people don't like being ripped off, but no one is forcing them to buy the music or software.
The same goes for the "I'll try it and buy it if I like it" and "I can't afford it, so the company isn't losing any money anyway" crowds.
I don't know when this attitude of entitlement started becoming so prevalent. It seems to have reached a fever pitch in the past couple years.
There has been a popular meme throughout history, back to the days of the Old Testament that said that beggars were entitled to the excess of any farmer's crop. If the vagrant were to walk past a farm, they could take as much as they needed from the outer ring of crops, but they were not to venture inside.
This is because it is thought that the person doing the work of farming had more than enough to feed himself and his family, after all, he's got huge tracts of land and will sell the amount he doesn't keep for himself at the market. What little scraps are taken by the passing beggar will hardly be missed.
The same attitude exists with regards to copyrighted materials. "I, one lone person, can't possibly make a dent in the amount of revenue that the copyright owner will make." (It's the same reason many people don't vote.) And they are correct. Individually, they make no impact on the final numbers. They aren't even a rounding error in many cases. But in large numbers, all these individuals refusing to pay for the material (to the copyright owners) make a huge impact.
When every vagrant takes their "fair share" from the outer ring of a crop field, the crop gets smaller and smaller until the farmer and his family starve.
All patents are issued or denied quietly. It's usually rumor sites like Slashdot and www.eff.org that make these quiet affairs larger than life.
The way you've mentioned works fine if you are only going to display static strings, but if you wish to display dynamic strings you will need a different approach.
Languages like English are SVO while other languages are SOV. Throw in a few extra grammar rules and a simple string substitution scheme becomes impossible because printf("%s %s %s", S, V, O); will simply not create correct strings for any language that uses a different ordering.
It's kind of funny that none of the ads on that page loaded, nor do any doubleclick website IPs load.
I surf in good faith. Good faith that my browser won't be hijacked by full-page ads, good faith that any advertisements won't chew up unnecessary CPU time, and good faith that advertisements will typically be for things I am interested in.
Doubleclick's ads fail every single of those points. So they can go cry in their soup. As should any site losing advertising revenue because they use the Doubleclick scum.