"It is certainly clear from our data and analysis that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes and most so among youngsters as perpetrators or victims."
Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan - International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22(1): 1-22. 1999, Milton Diamond (University of Hawai'i - Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Reproductive Biology, Pacific Center for Sex and Society, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822, U.S.A.), Ayako Uchiyama (National Research Institute of Police Science Juvenile Crime Study Section 6, Sanban-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102, JAPAN)
When the ad says "5 years of C#, 10 years of Java", what else can I assume.
That they wanted to hire an ex-Microsoft employee who worked on the.NET framework. Or that they were idiots who didn't know what they were asking for. One of the two.
Stop worrying. Grass-roots produced, bittorrent-distributed, creative commons licensed media will replace TV eventually. I have several friends who do pro-level video that have projects in the works. They will be free. If you don't believe me, check the new Wired magazine - Beastie Boys are putting out Creative Commons licensed tunes. Old school media conglomerates will wither and die. But we have to stop supporting them first.
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Pro-level video projects cost money. You can't film everything on location. You can't get all locations for free. You have to pay actors and skilled crewmembers - after all, this is their DAY JOB. Not everyone works for free.
This will be a small and tiny niche. It will not grow - because creating media costs more than the cost of a camera and a microphone.
I've had a pain in my upper right abdomin for a few years now... they did tests upon tests performed surgery and removed my gall bllader and yet I still have the freakin pain. I even asked the surgeon to look around at that area while he was removing my gall bladder because I know it's way higher than my gall bladder and after surgery when I asked him if he saw anything he gave me a blank look and didn't even remember our earlier conversation. So now I can't drink milk unless I take Nexium daily and I still have that pain in my upper stomach, thanks so much doctors.
This is going to sound stupid, but I'm going to ask anyway:
1. How much caffeine (tea/coffee/chocolate) do you do in a day? Past a certain point, if I'm drinking caffeine I get pains which might be best described as similar to having an ulcer. As such, I quit a year ago - and have not had stomach pains since.
2. Have you considered that you might be allergic to milk? (ie. Lactose intolerant?) Switch to Lactose-free milk and see if you feel better.
Just a couple of things... you never know - they might fix it. If they don't, no harm done. But if they do....
If you're on longterm treatment, definitely take acidophilus supplements. Another good idea if you're not doing that ('cuz it's relatively short term) or you want to supplement it: yogurt contains acidophilus cultures. Eat a shitload of it.
Actually, recent studies have shown that taking acidophilus after antibiotics doesn't actually have any more benefical action than to make your stools firmer.
I still take the stuff after food poisoning / antibiotics though. Because who wants loose stools?
But maybe it should be different. Libel in a signed, reputable publication is much more damaging than in anonymous email, as long as the readers can tell the difference.
No, actually, it's not.
Google Groups means that, for example, newsgroup posts will now last forever.
So if you go for a job interview, better hope that there's nothing slanderous about you on Google - or they will bring it up. And possibly not hire you because of it.
If the 'net was transient, it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, it is now a problem.
It's used by the military for an unusual property -- when DU munitions strike armor or metal, they basically vaporize themselves in a heat flash, allowing DU shells to cut through tank armor.
Actually, the reason why they went through tank armor was because, by volume, they're the heaviest thing you can throw at the enemy. High mass, small impact zone = massive penetrating power. Thus they can cut through armor not because they're on fire, but because they're bullets which are 15% heavier than lead, and about 63 times harder.
The uranium burning is useful inside the tank, after the shell has been penetrated, where it burns like potassium and takes out whatever's inside. The burning doesn't help with the penetration as much as the density and hardness.
Does that mean that I can say that "it's too bad that Open Source Coders don't respect IP Rights"?
Actually, yes you can. For the longest time, MPlayer has redistributed codecs stolen from Windows. They're the real Windows DLLs, copyright strings and all.
Make them earn their passage by doing some programming along the way. Set up the food dispensers so that if you don't work, you don't eat. That will keep them occupied!
Well, you learn something new ever day. I'm surprised, though, why doesn't anybody actually use this functionality? Why don't they have protocol handlers for more protocols?
Well, which ones are you interested in? The only one I can think of that would be missing is ssh, which just isn't used that often in the Windows world.
Monikers don't appear to do the same thing. For example, I can't find any directory listing functions in the Moniker API. Could you implement KIO's ability to browse SSH accounts using the Moniker API?
This is what's called a composite Moniker.
In any case, it's not the access that's in question here. It's the fact that all KDE apps use KIO, so your entire desktop is network transparent. Most Windows apps don't appear to use the Moniker API to access files, so you can't just open a remote ssh directory in MS Word and expect it to work.
Yes, you can. Most windows apps use the Explorer Shell to handle their open file dialogs (unless some raving lunatic rolled their own open file dialog from scratch - which happens now and then), and the shell uses the moniker API. So if you had an SSH handler, you could open a file from MS Word just by entering ssh://...whatever...
Try it with ftp://, I mean, instead of just claiming that it doesn't work when it does.
More and more I learn that the changes between Win2K and XP weren't just superficial. I must confess that the XP team did a lot of things right with that release. Hooray for competition! =]
Well, the thing is, the basic functionality in the OS required to do this (URL monikers, COM, etc) have all been in Windows since at least 1995 (they're all mentioned in the book Inside Ole 2nd Edition)... it's just that they've taken their sweet time exposing some of it in things like the commond file dialogs. It has been around under the covers for nearly a decade though.
If you want to learn more, this link isn't a bad place to start...
That and Windows misses the mark raised by an earlier comment of having to know the full url to open a particular document. KDE allows a path prefix to be entered in what Windows calls the "Look in:" field of the open dialog. KDE will open the directory and then allow for regular point and click browsing of that file repository. Not to mention that the feature is sparsely implemented Windows (Notepad sure didn't do it for me) and the default FTP handler in windows was terrible up to Win2k (the latest version I have installed anywhere).
Works fine for me in XP. ftp://sitename/.. and I get a list of folders I can play with. From Notepad, no less.
The key advantage of KDE's IOSlaves over protocol handlers in Windows is that in KDE they are transparent and available to every application. This is not the case in Windows or OSX. Gnome-VFS does have this advantage as well, but is nowhere near as extensive.
Wrong. Protocol handlers are available to every application. You just need to know what COM is.
That's not really the same thing. KIO protocol handlers allow KDE apps to understand new types of filesystems. So you can define a module that allows any KDE app to transparently have access to a "gmail drive." Can you do that in Windows, without any changes to applications?
Heh... that's funny... moderated down for "troll" posting, yet all I'm pointing out is that nearly every post in this thread is spreading anti-Microsoft FUD in response to anti-Linux FUD, and as such is dragging the debate down to their level.
Not that I'm surprised at all, but I guess y'all just can't take criticism.
When they can genetically engineer a cat to fetch and respond to it's name then sign me up!!
I've got one that responds to its name, and can learn how to do simple tasks (such as open doors and window sashes once it sees how the humans do it). No genetic engineering required.
What some people might not know is that Linus was a Sinclair user as well. Before he got a PC he had a QL, which had a 32bit architecture with a multitasking OS and was a pretty nifty machine for the time.
Alan Cox also used to write for the Sinclair Spectrum + SAM Coupe fanzine "Format". Last thing I saw from him in there was a small assembly language program for the Sinclair Spectrum +3.
They also had integer multiplication (and IIRC, division, too) which 8080 did not have.
Not on the Z80 they didn't; the Z280 may have had it, as may the Z8000, but the Z80 certainly didn't have it.
Multiplication you had to unroll yourself using a barrel shift routine. Or use a sum-of-squares trick with a table lookup.
Division was effectively a long division routine. And it didn't run very fast at all (and not many people would do it in their code anyway; it was one of those avoid-at-all-costs things).
I've still got the Division algorithm I found somewhere on paper, just in case I ever have a need for it (yes, I know...)
Of course now even my mobile phone has 100 times the CPU power and 256 times as much RAM, but I was still glad to have been around when the early affordable home computers were born; when computer courses were all about programming and understanding how the machines worked instead of how to use Word and Excel in the MS sponsored "education" (or rather, training) of today.
Hmmm... maybe I went to the wrong school, but apart from Logo and a tiny bit of BASIC (maybe not even that), all the computer stuff we learned in school for at least a year was how to use the BBC Micro equivalents of Word and Excel.
One of my teachers loved me - the other hated me - simply because I spent all of my time in those classes writing programs to do cool things instead of listening to them.
I'm just glad they let me, otherwise I'd probably have committed suicide through boredom.
The best, most logical assembly language I've seen was in my Spectrum. Quite frankly I think Zilog deserves a lot more respect than it gets these days. Anyone who's programmed Z80 assembly will puke from just seeing the ugly x86 flavor.
In all fairness though, Zilog's instruction set was invented after the 8080 set, by a gang of people who used to work at Intel. So really, the Zilog guys had the benefit of hindsight.
Though given that it's all just mnemonics, and the instructions behind it all are pretty much identical, I've never understood why Intel just didn't switch it over and use the easier-to-understand versions.
On the plus side for Zilog, they never had the abortion that was segment registers.
Microsoft apparently controls enough of the world's information sources to revise official history to edit it out, but I was alive and adult at the time and he fucking well said it, damnit!
If that's the case, then where and when did he say it?
Surely you can remember that too. You see there's this thing... it's called verification.
Peoples' memories are flawed things. They change over time. New memories can be implanted, that kind of thing.
*sniff* Ahhh... ye olde Sinclair ZX81 (aka the Timex Sinclair 1000)... my first computer.
My Dad secretly added on a real keyboard for it (or somehow getting one with a proper keyboard), taught himself how to program, and then pretending not to know how to program he just sat back and let me go at it.
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It helps people.
Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan - International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22(1): 1-22. 1999, Milton Diamond (University of Hawai'i - Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Reproductive Biology, Pacific Center for Sex and Society, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822, U.S.A.), Ayako Uchiyama
(National Research Institute of Police Science Juvenile Crime Study Section 6, Sanban-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102, JAPAN)
When the ad says "5 years of C#, 10 years of Java", what else can I assume.
.NET framework. Or that they were idiots who didn't know what they were asking for. One of the two.
That they wanted to hire an ex-Microsoft employee who worked on the
Stop worrying. Grass-roots produced, bittorrent-distributed, creative commons licensed media will replace TV eventually. I have several friends who do pro-level video that have projects in the works. They will be free. If you don't believe me, check the new Wired magazine - Beastie Boys are putting out Creative Commons licensed tunes. Old school media conglomerates will wither and die. But we have to stop supporting them first.
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Pro-level video projects cost money. You can't film everything on location. You can't get all locations for free. You have to pay actors and skilled crewmembers - after all, this is their DAY JOB. Not everyone works for free.
This will be a small and tiny niche. It will not grow - because creating media costs more than the cost of a camera and a microphone.
I've had a pain in my upper right abdomin for a few years now... they did tests upon tests performed surgery and removed my gall bllader and yet I still have the freakin pain. I even asked the surgeon to look around at that area while he was removing my gall bladder because I know it's way higher than my gall bladder and after surgery when I asked him if he saw anything he gave me a blank look and didn't even remember our earlier conversation. So now I can't drink milk unless I take Nexium daily and I still have that pain in my upper stomach, thanks so much doctors.
This is going to sound stupid, but I'm going to ask anyway:
1. How much caffeine (tea/coffee/chocolate) do you do in a day? Past a certain point, if I'm drinking caffeine I get pains which might be best described as similar to having an ulcer. As such, I quit a year ago - and have not had stomach pains since.
2. Have you considered that you might be allergic to milk? (ie. Lactose intolerant?) Switch to Lactose-free milk and see if you feel better.
Just a couple of things... you never know - they might fix it. If they don't, no harm done. But if they do....
If you're on longterm treatment, definitely take acidophilus supplements. Another good idea if you're not doing that ('cuz it's relatively short term) or you want to supplement it: yogurt contains acidophilus cultures. Eat a shitload of it.
Actually, recent studies have shown that taking acidophilus after antibiotics doesn't actually have any more benefical action than to make your stools firmer.
I still take the stuff after food poisoning / antibiotics though. Because who wants loose stools?
But maybe it should be different. Libel in a signed, reputable publication is much more damaging than in anonymous email, as long as the readers can tell the difference.
No, actually, it's not.
Google Groups means that, for example, newsgroup posts will now last forever.
So if you go for a job interview, better hope that there's nothing slanderous about you on Google - or they will bring it up. And possibly not hire you because of it.
If the 'net was transient, it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, it is now a problem.
It's used by the military for an unusual property -- when DU munitions strike armor or metal, they basically vaporize themselves in a heat flash, allowing DU shells to cut through tank armor.
Actually, the reason why they went through tank armor was because, by volume, they're the heaviest thing you can throw at the enemy. High mass, small impact zone = massive penetrating power. Thus they can cut through armor not because they're on fire, but because they're bullets which are 15% heavier than lead, and about 63 times harder.
The uranium burning is useful inside the tank, after the shell has been penetrated, where it burns like potassium and takes out whatever's inside. The burning doesn't help with the penetration as much as the density and hardness.
But don't just take my word for it. Read this:
How Stuff Works - Bunker Buster Bombs
Does that mean that I can say that "it's too bad that Open Source Coders don't respect IP Rights"?
Actually, yes you can. For the longest time, MPlayer has redistributed codecs stolen from Windows. They're the real Windows DLLs, copyright strings and all.
Make them earn their passage by doing some programming along the way. Set up the food dispensers so that if you don't work, you don't eat. That will keep them occupied!
:)
Now that's what I call outsourcing
Hmm... good point.
Well, you learn something new ever day. I'm surprised, though, why doesn't anybody actually use this functionality? Why don't they have protocol handlers for more protocols?
Well, which ones are you interested in? The only one I can think of that would be missing is ssh, which just isn't used that often in the Windows world.
Monikers don't appear to do the same thing. For example, I can't find any directory listing functions in the Moniker API. Could you implement KIO's ability to browse SSH accounts using the Moniker API?
This is what's called a composite Moniker.
In any case, it's not the access that's in question here. It's the fact that all KDE apps use KIO, so your entire desktop is network transparent. Most Windows apps don't appear to use the Moniker API to access files, so you can't just open a remote ssh directory in MS Word and expect it to work.
Yes, you can. Most windows apps use the Explorer Shell to handle their open file dialogs (unless some raving lunatic rolled their own open file dialog from scratch - which happens now and then), and the shell uses the moniker API. So if you had an SSH handler, you could open a file from MS Word just by entering ssh://...whatever...
Try it with ftp://, I mean, instead of just claiming that it doesn't work when it does.
More and more I learn that the changes between Win2K and XP weren't just superficial. I must confess that the XP team did a lot of things right with that release. Hooray for competition! =]
Well, the thing is, the basic functionality in the OS required to do this (URL monikers, COM, etc) have all been in Windows since at least 1995 (they're all mentioned in the book Inside Ole 2nd Edition)... it's just that they've taken their sweet time exposing some of it in things like the commond file dialogs. It has been around under the covers for nearly a decade though.
If you want to learn more, this link isn't a bad place to start...
That and Windows misses the mark raised by an earlier comment of having to know the full url to open a particular document. KDE allows a path prefix to be entered in what Windows calls the "Look in:" field of the open dialog. KDE will open the directory and then allow for regular point and click browsing of that file repository. Not to mention that the feature is sparsely implemented Windows (Notepad sure didn't do it for me) and the default FTP handler in windows was terrible up to Win2k (the latest version I have installed anywhere).
.. and I get a list of folders I can play with. From Notepad, no less.
Works fine for me in XP. ftp://sitename/
The key advantage of KDE's IOSlaves over protocol handlers in Windows is that in KDE they are transparent and available to every application. This is not the case in Windows or OSX. Gnome-VFS does have this advantage as well, but is nowhere near as extensive.
Wrong. Protocol handlers are available to every application. You just need to know what COM is.
That's not really the same thing. KIO protocol handlers allow KDE apps to understand new types of filesystems. So you can define a module that allows any KDE app to transparently have access to a "gmail drive." Can you do that in Windows, without any changes to applications?
Yes. That's what Monikers in COM are for.
Heh... that's funny... moderated down for "troll" posting, yet all I'm pointing out is that nearly every post in this thread is spreading anti-Microsoft FUD in response to anti-Linux FUD, and as such is dragging the debate down to their level.
Not that I'm surprised at all, but I guess y'all just can't take criticism.
Pro-Linux readers bash anti-Linux FUD by spreading... more FUD of their own.
Can't anybody take the high road here?
When they can genetically engineer a cat to fetch and respond to it's name then sign me up!!
I've got one that responds to its name, and can learn how to do simple tasks (such as open doors and window sashes once it sees how the humans do it). No genetic engineering required.
Cats are, however, too intelligent to play fetch.
What some people might not know is that Linus was a Sinclair user as well. Before he got a PC he had a QL, which had a 32bit architecture with a multitasking OS and was a pretty nifty machine for the time.
Alan Cox also used to write for the Sinclair Spectrum + SAM Coupe fanzine "Format". Last thing I saw from him in there was a small assembly language program for the Sinclair Spectrum +3.
They also had integer multiplication (and IIRC, division, too) which 8080 did not have.
Not on the Z80 they didn't; the Z280 may have had it, as may the Z8000, but the Z80 certainly didn't have it.
Multiplication you had to unroll yourself using a barrel shift routine. Or use a sum-of-squares trick with a table lookup.
Division was effectively a long division routine. And it didn't run very fast at all (and not many people would do it in their code anyway; it was one of those avoid-at-all-costs things).
I've still got the Division algorithm I found somewhere on paper, just in case I ever have a need for it (yes, I know...)
Of course now even my mobile phone has 100 times the CPU power and 256 times as much RAM, but I was still glad to have been around when the early affordable home computers were born; when computer courses were all about programming and understanding how the machines worked instead of how to use Word and Excel in the MS sponsored "education" (or rather, training) of today.
Hmmm... maybe I went to the wrong school, but apart from Logo and a tiny bit of BASIC (maybe not even that), all the computer stuff we learned in school for at least a year was how to use the BBC Micro equivalents of Word and Excel.
One of my teachers loved me - the other hated me - simply because I spent all of my time in those classes writing programs to do cool things instead of listening to them.
I'm just glad they let me, otherwise I'd probably have committed suicide through boredom.
The best, most logical assembly language I've seen was in my Spectrum. Quite frankly I think Zilog deserves a lot more respect than it gets these days. Anyone who's programmed Z80 assembly will puke from just seeing the ugly x86 flavor.
In all fairness though, Zilog's instruction set was invented after the 8080 set, by a gang of people who used to work at Intel. So really, the Zilog guys had the benefit of hindsight.
Though given that it's all just mnemonics, and the instructions behind it all are pretty much identical, I've never understood why Intel just didn't switch it over and use the easier-to-understand versions.
On the plus side for Zilog, they never had the abortion that was segment registers.
Microsoft apparently controls enough of the world's information sources to revise official history to edit it out, but I was alive and adult at the time and he fucking well said it, damnit!
If that's the case, then where and when did he say it?
Surely you can remember that too. You see there's this thing... it's called verification.
Peoples' memories are flawed things. They change over time. New memories can be implanted, that kind of thing.
Here are some adverts from that era
*sniff* Ahhh... ye olde Sinclair ZX81 (aka the Timex Sinclair 1000)... my first computer.
My Dad secretly added on a real keyboard for it (or somehow getting one with a proper keyboard), taught himself how to program, and then pretending not to know how to program he just sat back and let me go at it.