Really, the "contract" isn't as much of a hassle as you make it out to be. All it has to be is a one-liner in any other sort of "sign-up" or agreement saying that you want to sign up for promos but won't sell them.
You are not going to be able to control the minds of the world, by controlling the textbooks, anymore. You had your day at the top of the hill. Soon peer created, and peer reviewed content will be delivered over free p2p wireless mesh networks.
There's a far better strategy in play. Give the people Wikipedia, give them Google, give them Digg, Slashdot, wingnut blogs, crackpot theories... mix it all in! Give them celebrity journalism, pointless politics that weighs the winner's bank account before the first vote is in, go to weather, then slap on a dollop of prepackaged "news" about some new consumer gadget that'll be forgotten in a month.
Give the people so much irrelevant information that there are no common topics any more, everyone belongs to a fractured faction of their own sliver of agenda, and nothing ever gets done because nobody can actually decide on where the real problem is, much less what to do about it. Give people so much useless information that it's easy to be remain both useless and informed at the same time.
Can I just chime in here with a rant against the self-important idiots with more camera gear than sense who make YouTube (etc.) "video tutorials" out of things far better represented by text or photos.
Double points to the ones who draw a simple process out to a 5 minute video with witless "And then"... "Do this"... "Ta-da!" title cards.
A virtual world is a good way to represent a meeting,
My inclination is to disagree, at least if we're talking about "meeting" in the sense of a business meeting. I doubt that much more useful information would flow within a VW meeting than would flow within a suitable non-spatially-represented method of teleconference. Perhaps when the day comes that some sort of camera or motion capture can represent avatars to the point that body language comes through, VW will have an advantage, but as it stands, I don't see how a VW would be more efficient or useful than a teleconference with a shared whiteboard-- (okay, perhaps video as well).
When are we going to realize that prohibition really doesn't work and only serves to prop up criminal enterprises?
Once they take off the "PSA" ads and allow a little open discussion. Unfortunately, it's a nice little feedback loop once you get the "drugs are bad" message repeated over and over sans opposition for a generation or two.
Even as someone who would like sane permission-- or even a start toward open, fair study and debate-- on less harmful recreational drugs, the constant anti-marijuana sentiment from one side, and the marginalization of the opposition within the public media makes even me feel like I'd be doing something "wrong" in advocating or even voting for relaxation. To the back of my mind, it's almost as if even if it came to a vote, voting to legalize softer drugs would be illegal in and of itself. It's not a rational thought, just a niggling, back-of-the-brain unsettling feeling brought about by a soft-but-steady background noise of anti-drug repetition.
I never got into HyperCard, but working with AppleScript, at a time after I'd been using a couple other programming languages, I just found it far too long-winded, and-- as you mentioned-- rigidly so. After the fifth or sixth completely pointless "the" or "of the", I pretty much scrapped it, short of tweaking recorded macros.
Recently, I've been working with Inform 7, a rather recent language for writing text-adventures. Granted, it does have the competitive advantage of being a narrow-purpose language (kind of halfway between "scene description" and programming, really), it struck me from first glance as how a "natural" language like AppleScript should have been ended up. It accepts ambiguity fairly well (albeit with the rare snags resulting from guessing), accepts conjugations, synonyms, general pronouns, and omissions of common grammar, and once you know the general guidelines about "how to talk to it", you can proceed rather naturally.
How about a compromise position: move the quotes to 'War'.
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The add-on manager to FF3 actually allows you to enable and disable plugins on the fly, without a restart (I think it even does it immediately, without having to reload the page)-- it's a little less direct, but does act as a good alternative to 3rd-party "block" extensions.
First, you're learning about hexidecimal numbers. Enough unsigned drivers and hitting things on the ground, and you've got a great "flash card" teaching tool. Plus, the general math aspect, "Okay, class, if the IRQ is 'not less or equal to', then what is it?" "Okay, since nobody knows what this means, let's say that first number is the driver IRQ, which of the other numbers are not less than or equal to it?"
Not to mention learning about colors (blue)... and... um... death.
Same for "Copying a CD", for that matter. Even if you were to toe the party line, though, it still wouldn't work-- "They are both illegal" doesn't highlight a difference.
Do tell, what did you end up using for this? I've had this problem a few times, and have found it hard to find a lightweight, simple, "list" module, at least for Joomla.
There's one reason I'm really happy to see Joomla 1.5 come about. I make sites professionally in a small marketing firm, and our company uses Joomla for a fair number of sites-- I can hack a little PHP, but I'm a designer and front-end HTML/CSS/JS guy first and foremost. The constant and aggravating problem with Joomla 1.0 was that a lot of presentation code was tied up into the core (granted, it was no OSCommerce, but still...). The hacks I had to use to get a more pliable layout meant that any significant update to the Joomla! core meant a long regimen of re-hacking things to turn the TDs into DIVs. Granted, we had a "hacked house version", but it was still a pain.
Now, with 1.5, template overrides have saved me countless hours-- I can just use presentation template overrides on the few parts of the system I do use, and upgrade the core seperately, as needed.
It's a jumpstart, and certainly better than either doing nothing or sinking money into "give a man a fish, feed him for one day" type aid. Even people who leave would be more likely to send money, start projects, or focus valuable influence toward their homeland.
Taking a bit of a sidetrack, but even at the level that the "punishment fits the crime", I'm sure a fair share of downloaders would be facing instant bankruptcy should their "tab" come due, even at standard market rates. At a buck a song (that seems to be the going rate), lots of people's MP3 directories would land them in financial straits that folks around here would still consider severe. Add to that the fact that unless we're just talking compulsory licensing (another discussion entirely), the "punishment" rate should be a deterrent, not an alternative, and should reasonably exceed the market rate to the degree that the actual market is preferable.
Although I'd agree as much as anyone that the current punishment level is ludicrous, even a fair payment would hurt somethin' fierce.
Usually, if I'm looking for a store or type of business, Mapquest does the trick. I've found that it works better (or at least most smoothly-- I'm not sure about false-negative accuracy) for proximity searches than "Yellow Pages" sites most of the time as well. As far as specific products... isn't that what online ordering is for? (That or finger-walking through types of retailers.)
Society, as such, has no rights, it is merely a collective of individuals.
This statement betrays you, though. The "rights of society" should be protected in some cases, because it's really just the aggregate of the rights of individuals. Really, neither should be considered unencroachable-- there needs to be a reasonable middle ground that gives every person the maximum possible level of freedom, be it freedom from repression as an individual, or freedom from hardship as a member of society. When these rights come into conflict, there's no universal verdict as to who should win-- the requested rights given to one individual must be weighed against the rights or abilities removed from those they affect, be that effect a person-to-person effect, or a degradation upon society.
We should rule more often for the rights of the individual, as the individual is often the agent of positive change in repressive stagnation, but if the individual requests a useless right that unduly harms the greater rights of society-- for example, say, someone's right to spray-tag in a public park versus the city's rights in that property-- the rights of society do outweigh the rights of the individual.
Wouldn't be hard to make a controller. I suspect you could wire up any old controller that has a button-- like an old mouse for instance-- one contact to the triangle, another to the striking... rod... or whatever it's called... and make them both adequately conductive.
In a free society, you have to work with people, not against them. There's still plenty of dependence upon people in suburban or rural areas, and any manner of uprooting them that could work fast enough to create the needed benefit would be completely unfeasable. Even if you could get people to move, you'd just trade in long car drives for suburban blight (which we're starting to see already as a result of reurbanization and mass-relocation-- more as a result of the credit-crunch, but it's the same effect) and construction waste.
Realistic change means "bringing the mountain to Mohammed". Any feasable solution has to be cheap enough and simple enough, and have enough immediate benefit, that the benefit outweighs the inconveniences.
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Really, the "contract" isn't as much of a hassle as you make it out to be. All it has to be is a one-liner in any other sort of "sign-up" or agreement saying that you want to sign up for promos but won't sell them.
You are not going to be able to control the minds of the world, by controlling the textbooks, anymore. You had your day at the top of the hill. Soon peer created, and peer reviewed content will be delivered over free p2p wireless mesh networks.
There's a far better strategy in play. Give the people Wikipedia, give them Google, give them Digg, Slashdot, wingnut blogs, crackpot theories... mix it all in! Give them celebrity journalism, pointless politics that weighs the winner's bank account before the first vote is in, go to weather, then slap on a dollop of prepackaged "news" about some new consumer gadget that'll be forgotten in a month.
Give the people so much irrelevant information that there are no common topics any more, everyone belongs to a fractured faction of their own sliver of agenda, and nothing ever gets done because nobody can actually decide on where the real problem is, much less what to do about it. Give people so much useless information that it's easy to be remain both useless and informed at the same time.
Can I just chime in here with a rant against the self-important idiots with more camera gear than sense who make YouTube (etc.) "video tutorials" out of things far better represented by text or photos.
Double points to the ones who draw a simple process out to a 5 minute video with witless "And then"... "Do this"... "Ta-da!" title cards.
A virtual world is a good way to represent a meeting,
My inclination is to disagree, at least if we're talking about "meeting" in the sense of a business meeting. I doubt that much more useful information would flow within a VW meeting than would flow within a suitable non-spatially-represented method of teleconference. Perhaps when the day comes that some sort of camera or motion capture can represent avatars to the point that body language comes through, VW will have an advantage, but as it stands, I don't see how a VW would be more efficient or useful than a teleconference with a shared whiteboard-- (okay, perhaps video as well).
When are we going to realize that prohibition really doesn't work and only serves to prop up criminal enterprises?
Once they take off the "PSA" ads and allow a little open discussion. Unfortunately, it's a nice little feedback loop once you get the "drugs are bad" message repeated over and over sans opposition for a generation or two.
Even as someone who would like sane permission-- or even a start toward open, fair study and debate-- on less harmful recreational drugs, the constant anti-marijuana sentiment from one side, and the marginalization of the opposition within the public media makes even me feel like I'd be doing something "wrong" in advocating or even voting for relaxation. To the back of my mind, it's almost as if even if it came to a vote, voting to legalize softer drugs would be illegal in and of itself. It's not a rational thought, just a niggling, back-of-the-brain unsettling feeling brought about by a soft-but-steady background noise of anti-drug repetition.
Learn to code.
I never got into HyperCard, but working with AppleScript, at a time after I'd been using a couple other programming languages, I just found it far too long-winded, and-- as you mentioned-- rigidly so. After the fifth or sixth completely pointless "the" or "of the", I pretty much scrapped it, short of tweaking recorded macros.
Recently, I've been working with Inform 7, a rather recent language for writing text-adventures. Granted, it does have the competitive advantage of being a narrow-purpose language (kind of halfway between "scene description" and programming, really), it struck me from first glance as how a "natural" language like AppleScript should have been ended up. It accepts ambiguity fairly well (albeit with the rare snags resulting from guessing), accepts conjugations, synonyms, general pronouns, and omissions of common grammar, and once you know the general guidelines about "how to talk to it", you can proceed rather naturally.
Who runs 3D accellerated stuff in a VM anyways?
Perhaps if 3D-accelerated VMs were more widespread...
How about a compromise position: move the quotes to 'War'.
The add-on manager to FF3 actually allows you to enable and disable plugins on the fly, without a restart (I think it even does it immediately, without having to reload the page)-- it's a little less direct, but does act as a good alternative to 3rd-party "block" extensions.
Everyone's so negative around here. It's a great teaching tool.
STOP: 0x00000FE1 (0x029FBE01 0x0000007B 0x0001029A 0x0000003E)
DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL_TO
First, you're learning about hexidecimal numbers. Enough unsigned drivers and hitting things on the ground, and you've got a great "flash card" teaching tool. Plus, the general math aspect, "Okay, class, if the IRQ is 'not less or equal to', then what is it?" "Okay, since nobody knows what this means, let's say that first number is the driver IRQ, which of the other numbers are not less than or equal to it?"
Not to mention learning about colors (blue)... and... um... death.
I'm surprised no one's running a business sitting outside the door and grabbing all this stuff for resale.
Same for "Copying a CD", for that matter. Even if you were to toe the party line, though, it still wouldn't work-- "They are both illegal" doesn't highlight a difference.
What, fill in all the true-false answers with Qs and Ns?
Interesting. Sounds (at first glance) like the sort of thing XML/XSL was made for.
Do tell, what did you end up using for this? I've had this problem a few times, and have found it hard to find a lightweight, simple, "list" module, at least for Joomla.
There's one reason I'm really happy to see Joomla 1.5 come about. I make sites professionally in a small marketing firm, and our company uses Joomla for a fair number of sites-- I can hack a little PHP, but I'm a designer and front-end HTML/CSS/JS guy first and foremost. The constant and aggravating problem with Joomla 1.0 was that a lot of presentation code was tied up into the core (granted, it was no OSCommerce, but still...). The hacks I had to use to get a more pliable layout meant that any significant update to the Joomla! core meant a long regimen of re-hacking things to turn the TDs into DIVs. Granted, we had a "hacked house version", but it was still a pain.
Now, with 1.5, template overrides have saved me countless hours-- I can just use presentation template overrides on the few parts of the system I do use, and upgrade the core seperately, as needed.
It's a jumpstart, and certainly better than either doing nothing or sinking money into "give a man a fish, feed him for one day" type aid. Even people who leave would be more likely to send money, start projects, or focus valuable influence toward their homeland.
Taking a bit of a sidetrack, but even at the level that the "punishment fits the crime", I'm sure a fair share of downloaders would be facing instant bankruptcy should their "tab" come due, even at standard market rates. At a buck a song (that seems to be the going rate), lots of people's MP3 directories would land them in financial straits that folks around here would still consider severe. Add to that the fact that unless we're just talking compulsory licensing (another discussion entirely), the "punishment" rate should be a deterrent, not an alternative, and should reasonably exceed the market rate to the degree that the actual market is preferable.
Although I'd agree as much as anyone that the current punishment level is ludicrous, even a fair payment would hurt somethin' fierce.
Usually, if I'm looking for a store or type of business, Mapquest does the trick. I've found that it works better (or at least most smoothly-- I'm not sure about false-negative accuracy) for proximity searches than "Yellow Pages" sites most of the time as well. As far as specific products... isn't that what online ordering is for? (That or finger-walking through types of retailers.)
Sealand?
Society, as such, has no rights, it is merely a collective of individuals.
This statement betrays you, though. The "rights of society" should be protected in some cases, because it's really just the aggregate of the rights of individuals. Really, neither should be considered unencroachable-- there needs to be a reasonable middle ground that gives every person the maximum possible level of freedom, be it freedom from repression as an individual, or freedom from hardship as a member of society. When these rights come into conflict, there's no universal verdict as to who should win-- the requested rights given to one individual must be weighed against the rights or abilities removed from those they affect, be that effect a person-to-person effect, or a degradation upon society.
We should rule more often for the rights of the individual, as the individual is often the agent of positive change in repressive stagnation, but if the individual requests a useless right that unduly harms the greater rights of society-- for example, say, someone's right to spray-tag in a public park versus the city's rights in that property-- the rights of society do outweigh the rights of the individual.
All name-calling aside, are we assuming you think the position is an incorrect perspective to hold? Why (or why not)? In your own words.
Wouldn't be hard to make a controller. I suspect you could wire up any old controller that has a button-- like an old mouse for instance-- one contact to the triangle, another to the striking... rod... or whatever it's called... and make them both adequately conductive.
Practical application of this sentiment being...?
In a free society, you have to work with people, not against them. There's still plenty of dependence upon people in suburban or rural areas, and any manner of uprooting them that could work fast enough to create the needed benefit would be completely unfeasable. Even if you could get people to move, you'd just trade in long car drives for suburban blight (which we're starting to see already as a result of reurbanization and mass-relocation-- more as a result of the credit-crunch, but it's the same effect) and construction waste.
Realistic change means "bringing the mountain to Mohammed". Any feasable solution has to be cheap enough and simple enough, and have enough immediate benefit, that the benefit outweighs the inconveniences.