Sorry, but no... Google is still the cleanest search results, with no hidden ads, and their 'gadgets' consume no screen real-estate (and are optional). Stop making a mountain out of a molehill... you trivialize the hardships us older folks had to go through. I guarantee if you went back to 1999 and tried doing searches, then popped back to now and used Google again, it would still be a beautiful breath of fresh, clean, accurate air in comparison.
Once you can see MEAT, the hunt is over. Time to calm down and eat. Makes sense to me. We're not jackals, who fight for carrion; or lions who compete for who gets to eat the kill. We're a cooperative species, so once the hunt is done and the meat is out, time to stop producing adrenaline from the hunt and get to the business of sharing the meat out to the group.
Imagine the resources of a nation like Nicaragua, then imagine the quality of their IT infrastructure... does it really surprise you that much that Google has a better and usually more accurate mapping service than they can get from their government?
It is due to the fact that the loopholes save large PERCENTAGES of taxes with a large FIXED COST to set up.
That loophole may have required dozens of man years to get working right, with a few full time accounts just to keep that one loophole working. These fixed costs make it impractical for all but the stinking rich to use.
Bittorrent is great for very large files, and popular files.
But for small files it's really, really bad. Many linux patches involve downloading hundreds of small files, not one big one. Most applications are so small that the setup and teardown time for bittorrent would dwarf the download time. Any download that takes less than 5 will likely have a smoother user experience if it is not done using bittorrent.
Even ignoring tiny files, there is the issue of bandwidth limited users, the significantly higher routing requirements of bittorrent (many home routers flake out when you get 50+ TCP connections going through them), users with heavily asymmetrical connections (5Mbit down/256kbit up), and the more complicated configuration required to get a good bittorrent connection.
In short, bittorrent is nice for its niche (large, popular files), but outside that niche it is often not the best solution. Wider deployment of bittorrent technology would probably help some places, but it's not a silver bullet for all Internet downloads.
I bought some quick-release key attachers and put one in, and one on, my purse. I keep one set of keys on the outside for easy access, and one inside for backup. I never forget my purse, so by proxy I never forget my keys... except when I forget to re-attach them. Like I did when I got home earlier today. Hooray for backups!
I am, by the way, male. However, I think the term 'murse' is stupid, as is man-bag. It's a fucking purse. Just because I keep a camera, portable tripod, and a nintendo DS inside instead of a selection of grooming products, doesn't make it not a purse.
The killswitch needs to be incorporated into critical sections of the organisms DNA to give it even a chance of working. The deadly gene needs to have a beneficial purpose, or (even without selective pressure) the section that codes for the killswitch will randomly mutate with no adverse effect on the organism.
To put it another way, a car alarm built into your rear bumper is not nearly as useful as one built into the ignition.
This line stood out: "They've even launched a program to create stress-mitigating pharmaceuticals." Reminded me of the JoCo song "I Feel Fantastic", written as an accompaniment to Popular Science's article Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier?.
This whole segregation thing is crap. 95% of interactions between a child and an adult are positive. Segregation leads to 'Lord of the Flies' inbreeding of immature thought. Mixed company is the proper company for a child to have to learn how to grow up to be a sane, responsible, rounded individual.
Look at our history... children didn't grow up in segregated 'child only' areas... they grew up working with their parents and community members. They were exposed to life.
I'm of the opinion that over 95% of interactions between a child and adult are positive. How many of you have grouped with an obviously young kid, and helped them through an instance? Asked them to please be more polite, or type neatly, or don't ninja all the loot? Grouping, chatting, and talking with more mature players is what helps children learn maturity (at least in the context of an MMO).
Perhaps some of the other points of the article have merit, but I'm quite against age segregation. We are a community... act like it.
Refactoring is an art that all programmers should cultivate. It turns shitty code into nice code, without breaking it or losing all the bug-fixes that have been hacked in over the years. In most cases, ugly code needs refactoring, not rewriting.
These strikes never work out. Every time we do nothing interesting for a week, the media just chooses some random person, labels them a 'celebrity', and writes about their boring life for a week. And for some reason, people pay money to read this gossip about ordinary folk.
If I understand correctly, this ruling does NOT affect webserver logs, because that person came TO YOU. It would, however, affect the legality of you selling or giving away those logs.
This is analogous to a doctor being able to keep records of his patients, but not able for that same doctor to sell or even disclose those records to a third party.
Thank you. I've often wondered exactly why RMS' hard line stance bothered me, and you helped me see the light. I do agree that closed software has significant drawbacks, but some of his other opinions didn't sit quite right with me. And that's because I'm a pretty trusting person. I assume the best, and it has yet to burn me.
Heck, even with OSS we still rely on trust except in very rare cases. We trust the OSS writer to be competent; we trust the community (as in, someone other than us) to look at the software and check for problems; we trust that nobody adds an obfuscated backdoor; we trust security experts to find flaws in our encryption methods. Nobody can be an expert in everything.
So the bizarre flashmob of angry residents barricades a public road and illegally blocks Google from taking photos from the public streets? This is in the UK... those people are already putting up with a billion cameras, what's one more?
... before we can visit the 'hacker dude' who lives in his apartment, never leaving, sure the government is after him, and who provides shady services for a steep price.
Just as has been predicted by nearly every sci-fi cyberpunk fiction in existence.
The difference being that there will be no plot-forwarding exposition in person... it'll be a credit transaction through a forum or website.
I wonder if evil hackers use credit? Who would trust them enough to give the info out? Do they Paypal? Who would trust any arbitration service that they use... if they get banned by Paypal and switch to 'money-laundering.com', wouldn't that immediately stigmatize the completely innocent and legitimate business of 'money-laundering.com'?
Despite having the technology to get all the pictures and video I want... late at night, I bring up my Literotica bookmark almost exclusively. Video just doesn't cut it for me.
Not true. Everyone has the right to download his music for free.
But only the record labels, and possibly Lars if his contract is unusually permissive (which it may be, them being Metallica), have the right to distribute his music. Depending on what application he used to pirate his work, he was distributing his work for free to others who connected to him. He may, or may not, have had that right.
But he has the right to assume, just like everyone else on the Internet, that the person who is distributing a copyrighted work from the Internet has the legal authority to do so. We don't have to confirm that JoeBob@bittorrent is a legal authorized distributor, we are allowed to assume it.
As long as we don't distribute it ourselves, we are not liable for infringement.
Your point not being that you don't want bloat... your point is that you hate change. Well that's nice. You can also stay with your DOS or SH, because everything after that has been bloat... Or you can accept that the world will continue to change, and some of it is for the better, and some of it for the worse. Demanding the choice to stand still isn't an option. The universe is full of change. Adapt or perish.
Asking developers to continue to work with old browsers that they've improved on kind of sucks. If you feel it is so important, you are free to pay programmers to maintain your old version of Firefox for you... it is open source. If you're unwilling to put your money on the line, perhaps you should accept the free, open, improved versions of Firefox that the developers have invested their countless hours into.
Even bacteria evolve in ways that are not simply mutation. Genetic material swapping between bacteria is a close analog of sexual reproduction. In fact, it may be better than sexual reproduction at transferring positive genes across a population... it just doesn't work well once you're multi-cellular. Us communal organisms have to make do with sexual reproduction as a substitute.
I *want* memory aids. I want them with a passion. But the article is blowing smoke and calling it a fireplace. There's nothing there.
Not to say that memory aids couldn't exist. We could have them right now. All I want is a device where I can press a button and create alarms and reminders via voice. The word domain is small, and it doesn't have to be realtime (a processing time of 5-15 seconds is just fine). Existing mobile devices like phones already have enough processing power for this task, but I still haven't seen anything.
Makes me sad.
Full 'record your life and recall it when needed', something I would definitely use, won't occur until we have strong AI. That ain't happening for 20 years in my opinion.
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Same reason the USPS likes bulk mailers... they keep the operation afloat. Especially as more and more people turn to email.
Sorry, but no... Google is still the cleanest search results, with no hidden ads, and their 'gadgets' consume no screen real-estate (and are optional). Stop making a mountain out of a molehill... you trivialize the hardships us older folks had to go through. I guarantee if you went back to 1999 and tried doing searches, then popped back to now and used Google again, it would still be a beautiful breath of fresh, clean, accurate air in comparison.
Once you can see MEAT, the hunt is over. Time to calm down and eat. Makes sense to me. We're not jackals, who fight for carrion; or lions who compete for who gets to eat the kill. We're a cooperative species, so once the hunt is done and the meat is out, time to stop producing adrenaline from the hunt and get to the business of sharing the meat out to the group.
Imagine the resources of a nation like Nicaragua, then imagine the quality of their IT infrastructure... does it really surprise you that much that Google has a better and usually more accurate mapping service than they can get from their government?
It is due to the fact that the loopholes save large PERCENTAGES of taxes with a large FIXED COST to set up.
That loophole may have required dozens of man years to get working right, with a few full time accounts just to keep that one loophole working. These fixed costs make it impractical for all but the stinking rich to use.
Bittorrent is great for very large files, and popular files.
But for small files it's really, really bad. Many linux patches involve downloading hundreds of small files, not one big one. Most applications are so small that the setup and teardown time for bittorrent would dwarf the download time. Any download that takes less than 5 will likely have a smoother user experience if it is not done using bittorrent.
Even ignoring tiny files, there is the issue of bandwidth limited users, the significantly higher routing requirements of bittorrent (many home routers flake out when you get 50+ TCP connections going through them), users with heavily asymmetrical connections (5Mbit down/256kbit up), and the more complicated configuration required to get a good bittorrent connection.
In short, bittorrent is nice for its niche (large, popular files), but outside that niche it is often not the best solution. Wider deployment of bittorrent technology would probably help some places, but it's not a silver bullet for all Internet downloads.
I bought some quick-release key attachers and put one in, and one on, my purse. I keep one set of keys on the outside for easy access, and one inside for backup. I never forget my purse, so by proxy I never forget my keys... except when I forget to re-attach them. Like I did when I got home earlier today. Hooray for backups!
I am, by the way, male. However, I think the term 'murse' is stupid, as is man-bag. It's a fucking purse. Just because I keep a camera, portable tripod, and a nintendo DS inside instead of a selection of grooming products, doesn't make it not a purse.
The killswitch needs to be incorporated into critical sections of the organisms DNA to give it even a chance of working. The deadly gene needs to have a beneficial purpose, or (even without selective pressure) the section that codes for the killswitch will randomly mutate with no adverse effect on the organism.
To put it another way, a car alarm built into your rear bumper is not nearly as useful as one built into the ignition.
This line stood out: "They've even launched a program to create stress-mitigating pharmaceuticals." Reminded me of the JoCo song "I Feel Fantastic", written as an accompaniment to Popular Science's article Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier?.
You make it too complicated... the very few clean ones are simply too few to worry about. Power does corrupt.
This whole segregation thing is crap. 95% of interactions between a child and an adult are positive. Segregation leads to 'Lord of the Flies' inbreeding of immature thought. Mixed company is the proper company for a child to have to learn how to grow up to be a sane, responsible, rounded individual.
Look at our history... children didn't grow up in segregated 'child only' areas... they grew up working with their parents and community members. They were exposed to life.
I'm of the opinion that over 95% of interactions between a child and adult are positive. How many of you have grouped with an obviously young kid, and helped them through an instance? Asked them to please be more polite, or type neatly, or don't ninja all the loot? Grouping, chatting, and talking with more mature players is what helps children learn maturity (at least in the context of an MMO).
Perhaps some of the other points of the article have merit, but I'm quite against age segregation. We are a community... act like it.
Any sufficiently complicated network will contain an buggy, slow, incomplete implementation of TCP/IP.
Refactoring is an art that all programmers should cultivate. It turns shitty code into nice code, without breaking it or losing all the bug-fixes that have been hacked in over the years. In most cases, ugly code needs refactoring, not rewriting.
These strikes never work out. Every time we do nothing interesting for a week, the media just chooses some random person, labels them a 'celebrity', and writes about their boring life for a week. And for some reason, people pay money to read this gossip about ordinary folk.
If I understand correctly, this ruling does NOT affect webserver logs, because that person came TO YOU. It would, however, affect the legality of you selling or giving away those logs.
This is analogous to a doctor being able to keep records of his patients, but not able for that same doctor to sell or even disclose those records to a third party.
Thank you. I've often wondered exactly why RMS' hard line stance bothered me, and you helped me see the light. I do agree that closed software has significant drawbacks, but some of his other opinions didn't sit quite right with me. And that's because I'm a pretty trusting person. I assume the best, and it has yet to burn me.
Heck, even with OSS we still rely on trust except in very rare cases. We trust the OSS writer to be competent; we trust the community (as in, someone other than us) to look at the software and check for problems; we trust that nobody adds an obfuscated backdoor; we trust security experts to find flaws in our encryption methods. Nobody can be an expert in everything.
So the bizarre flashmob of angry residents barricades a public road and illegally blocks Google from taking photos from the public streets? This is in the UK... those people are already putting up with a billion cameras, what's one more?
... before we can visit the 'hacker dude' who lives in his apartment, never leaving, sure the government is after him, and who provides shady services for a steep price.
Just as has been predicted by nearly every sci-fi cyberpunk fiction in existence.
The difference being that there will be no plot-forwarding exposition in person... it'll be a credit transaction through a forum or website.
I wonder if evil hackers use credit? Who would trust them enough to give the info out? Do they Paypal? Who would trust any arbitration service that they use... if they get banned by Paypal and switch to 'money-laundering.com', wouldn't that immediately stigmatize the completely innocent and legitimate business of 'money-laundering.com'?
We live in interesting times.
Despite having the technology to get all the pictures and video I want... late at night, I bring up my Literotica bookmark almost exclusively. Video just doesn't cut it for me.
Apparently Jonathan Coulton is more popular in Illinois than he realizes.
Not true. Everyone has the right to download his music for free.
But only the record labels, and possibly Lars if his contract is unusually permissive (which it may be, them being Metallica), have the right to distribute his music. Depending on what application he used to pirate his work, he was distributing his work for free to others who connected to him. He may, or may not, have had that right.
But he has the right to assume, just like everyone else on the Internet, that the person who is distributing a copyrighted work from the Internet has the legal authority to do so. We don't have to confirm that JoeBob@bittorrent is a legal authorized distributor, we are allowed to assume it.
As long as we don't distribute it ourselves, we are not liable for infringement.
A name like that would poison support for their project.
Your point not being that you don't want bloat... your point is that you hate change. Well that's nice. You can also stay with your DOS or SH, because everything after that has been bloat... Or you can accept that the world will continue to change, and some of it is for the better, and some of it for the worse. Demanding the choice to stand still isn't an option. The universe is full of change. Adapt or perish.
Asking developers to continue to work with old browsers that they've improved on kind of sucks. If you feel it is so important, you are free to pay programmers to maintain your old version of Firefox for you... it is open source. If you're unwilling to put your money on the line, perhaps you should accept the free, open, improved versions of Firefox that the developers have invested their countless hours into.
Even bacteria evolve in ways that are not simply mutation. Genetic material swapping between bacteria is a close analog of sexual reproduction. In fact, it may be better than sexual reproduction at transferring positive genes across a population... it just doesn't work well once you're multi-cellular. Us communal organisms have to make do with sexual reproduction as a substitute.
I *want* memory aids. I want them with a passion. But the article is blowing smoke and calling it a fireplace. There's nothing there.
Not to say that memory aids couldn't exist. We could have them right now. All I want is a device where I can press a button and create alarms and reminders via voice. The word domain is small, and it doesn't have to be realtime (a processing time of 5-15 seconds is just fine). Existing mobile devices like phones already have enough processing power for this task, but I still haven't seen anything.
Makes me sad.
Full 'record your life and recall it when needed', something I would definitely use, won't occur until we have strong AI. That ain't happening for 20 years in my opinion.