Why do people bother trying to 'reinvent' themselves when they are already making a profit and will likely continue to do so in that fashion for as long as the eye can see?
The Register reckons it was the fault of Sircam. Carly got infected and the worm sent along an e-mail to Michael Capellas with the subject "Hi! How are you? I sent you this file in order to have your advice" and attached was a file with the name HP_Strategy.DOC:)
I fell off my chair laughing, but it seems almost plausible given the alternatives...
You could try using Lyx. It has the best support for layout, tables, equations, code, sections, multiple output formats - and yes, footnotes, of any tool I've seen. It uses LaTeX as the engine but you don't need to know any of the syntax to get started.
It depends what you want to do. If you're writing small pieces for immediate printing like letters, invoices or articles then Lyx is a bit over the top. But for academic papers, online (and printed) books, dissertations, code documentation and the like, it has no equal IMHO.
Indeed. If you look at Doug Chiang's work in the Art of Star Wars - Episode One (Amazon will probably have it - I got it as a present), you'll see all of his conceptual work is in traditional media - watercolour, pen and ink, and pencil.
I recommend any of these books if you want to look behind the scenes at concept design, particularly how creatures and sets evolve in the mind of the artist. Doug Chiang seems to have designed 80% of the Episode I universe based on the sheer number of his works in the book. What's even more interesting is that he claims Lucas has an incredible sense of design and vision which just gave the artists that final inspiration or push in the right direction just when they needed it most. Not basic whip-cracking either - more tweaks or overhauls to things that just gave them The Right Look. Say what you like about him as a director, he obviously still knows how to design cool stuff.
Patents protect ideas and without protection of ideas there is no incentive to come up with more ideas and society stagnates.
Nope - ideas (and facts) cannot be patented. Physical inventions and/or processes which use those ideas may be, but not the facts or ideas themselves. I agree that inventors and innovators (I feel somehow contaminated using that word these days) should be protected, but for a limited time.
Slightly OT: I have just found out that software cannot be patented in my country of residence. Isn't that nice?
I agree with the majority of your points - but cults have recognised differences with mainstream religions - nearly always about the degree to which all these controls are imposed and enforced. For instance, Scientologists impose a horrific procedure on anyone wishing to leave - including long periods of complete isolation and what could be described as solitary confinement.
Or compare this quote about Amway (also a dangerously cult-like organisation which happens to be a corporation) on the attitudes you'll enounter when you decide to break free: "On your tombstone will be 'eternally broke'" (literal quote from a Diamond)....Despite the love and compassion exhibited by the people who love you, God help you should you quit. You may be labeled a quitter, loser, "thumb sucking pin head", bone head, idiot, moron, broke guy, wimp, socialist, mentally unstable, ego out of control, maverick non-team player etc..."
As a conservative, protestant evangelical Christian, I'm more than aware of the dangers of mind control and emotional manipulation when it comes to faith - and I fight anything that says I must blindly accept or follow.
...you must go and see the working model of Babbage's difference engine #2 at the Science Museum. It was completed in 1991 by the staff using Babbage's drawings and worked first time.
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The number of possible combinations of p objects chosen from a total of n is given by the combination formula:
n C p = n!/(p! * (n-p)!)
I assumed 7 octaves of the Western scale (has to do with the intervals of the frequencies of the notes) which gives 91 possible notes (also assuming that middle C is a different note to say C above top F)
That gives an answer of: 91!/(4! * 87!) = 2672670
If you plug in 13 notes (a single octave) then the answer is: 13!/(4!*9!) = 715.
Either way, I'd also appreciate a discussion of his maths:)
Moderators, how is this a troll? This is exactly what I have running on all three machines here at home - WindowMaker + Gnome + KDE. All Gnome and KDE apps run just fine and WindowMaker is nice and fast for the desktop management.
This should be at least +1 Informative for the KDE speed hint:)
...let them take over! Run something sane, fast and highly customisable like WindowMaker and create shortcuts or menus for your favourite g- and k-based apps.
If you really have to use KDE and want some serious speed increases, then compile both KDE and Qt from source with the switch --no-g++-exceptions. This is a hint from Linux from Scratch which works very well.
Check out the first chapter of the ClueTrain Manifesto here. Interesting reading, especially his thinking processes about publishing online. I'm a devoted subscriber of his newsletter - tends to shake me out of my thinking most of the time.
... The change in the UI wizard's voice was astounding. Suddenly it became menacing, powerful, harsh as stone. A shadow seemed to pass over the high sun, and the porch for a moment grew dark. All trembled, and the programmers stopped their ears. "Never before has any voice dared to utter the words of that tongue in Imlapplris, Raskin the Arrogant," said Jobrond, as the shadow passed and the company breathed once more. "And let us hope that none will ever speak it here again," answered Raskin. ...
Just using that phrase "designer babies" determines the conclusion. Put out a poll... "are you in favor of designer babies - no" "should potential parents with inheritable diseases have the right to pre-screen their embryos for those diseases- yes"
Don't forget option #3:
"Not sure - just as long as it doesn't look like CowboyNeal"
...is Scott Meyers' Effective C++ CD-ROM. It's sold as a seperate product from the two dead tree books it contains - Effective C++ and More Effective C++ - but the author and publishers have really worked hard on maximising the use of hyperlinks, web integration and layout. Very impressive and very handy to tote around with you if you need to be on site or something. There's also lots of added bonus articles and cross-references too. The cover claims you're never more than two clicks away from finding whatever you want to know about C++ - which I found is - amazingly enough - true.
Everybody talks like if they knew since years that 3rd world countries use Open source... well, i have beent on a lot of this countries for long and will tell you something:
South Africa is not a true 3rd World country. It's a strange mix of 1st and 3rd: 1st in that it has an enviable constitution, democratically elected government, advanced intrastructure, 10 times the teledensity of the rest of Africa - including three GSM operators - and a very mature IT market; 3rd in that there are still vast areas of extreme poverty and a serious serious problem with HIV in some provinces.
They DONT use open source stuff, its usually more difficult than Microsoft software and there is not enough education there to, lets say, recompile the kernel. They are in a piracy hipe, you can find full streets of pirated software stores and you can find from screensavers to SQL 2000.
Leaving aside the fact that everyone I know in South Africa can at least write better English than this post, here are a few facts:
The BSA is very active here. It's members include all the usual suspects - Microsoft, Autodesk, Lotus et al - each of whom have large local offices with direct ties to their principals in the US. There's a current case about an entrepreneur who purchased a number of second hand machines from a large local bank only to be accused of piracy by Microsoft SA because of Windows license transfer issues.
Open Source is proving a very attractive option for companies here who have to deal with a fluctuating and unfavorable exchange rate with the US Dollar. Software that costs $100 must be multiplied by roughly 14 to get the price in local currency - a highly depressing state of affairs since the Economist's Burgernomics method reckons the Rand should be around 4,5 to the Dollar. As a result, South Africa has some of the largest Linux installations in the world in some sectors. Microsoft costs too much and the authorities rightly don't like the idea of revenue leaving the country when perfectly acceptable free alternatives exist.
There is more than enough education here to do simple things like compiling the kernel. A couple of the FreeBSD core maintenance team are South African (hi Neil:) and the editor of one of the most respected business/computer magazines compiled his Linux kernel for an upcoming feature.
You most certainly can NOT find "full streets of pirated software stores" in South Africa. Maybe the odd flea market operator, but nearly all retailers are extremely careful because of the ever-present threat from the BSA.
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Why do people bother trying to 'reinvent' themselves when they are already making a profit and will likely continue to do so in that fashion for as long as the eye can see?
:)
The Register reckons it was the fault of Sircam. Carly got infected and the worm sent along an e-mail to Michael Capellas with the subject "Hi! How are you? I sent you this file in order to have your advice" and attached was a file with the name HP_Strategy.DOC
I fell off my chair laughing, but it seems almost plausible given the alternatives...
You could try using Lyx. It has the best support for layout, tables, equations, code, sections, multiple output formats - and yes, footnotes, of any tool I've seen. It uses LaTeX as the engine but you don't need to know any of the syntax to get started.
It depends what you want to do. If you're writing small pieces for immediate printing like letters, invoices or articles then Lyx is a bit over the top. But for academic papers, online (and printed) books, dissertations, code documentation and the like, it has no equal IMHO.
Morpheus: This is the construct. It's our loading program. Here we can load flash plugins, Javascript, client side animations - anything we need.
Neo: You mean - right now I'm browsing a Web page?
Morpheus: Is it really so hard to believe? You started your browser, entered the site's address and pressed enter.
What more could a chain-smoking, Slashdot-reading, slightly left of Green, sex-starved geek monster movie fan need in a story?
Indeed. If you look at Doug Chiang's work in the Art of Star Wars - Episode One (Amazon will probably have it - I got it as a present), you'll see all of his conceptual work is in traditional media - watercolour, pen and ink, and pencil.
I recommend any of these books if you want to look behind the scenes at concept design, particularly how creatures and sets evolve in the mind of the artist. Doug Chiang seems to have designed 80% of the Episode I universe based on the sheer number of his works in the book. What's even more interesting is that he claims Lucas has an incredible sense of design and vision which just gave the artists that final inspiration or push in the right direction just when they needed it most. Not basic whip-cracking either - more tweaks or overhauls to things that just gave them The Right Look. Say what you like about him as a director, he obviously still knows how to design cool stuff.
Patents protect ideas and without protection of ideas there is no incentive to come up with more ideas and society stagnates.
Nope - ideas (and facts) cannot be patented. Physical inventions and/or processes which use those ideas may be, but not the facts or ideas themselves.
I agree that inventors and innovators (I feel somehow contaminated using that word these days) should be protected, but for a limited time.
Slightly OT: I have just found out that software cannot be patented in my country of residence. Isn't that nice?
``Lather. Rinse. Repeat.''
Sounds very similar to the tax forms over here too...
I agree with the majority of your points - but cults have recognised differences with mainstream religions - nearly always about the degree to which all these controls are imposed and enforced. For instance, Scientologists impose a horrific procedure on anyone wishing to leave - including long periods of complete isolation and what could be described as solitary confinement.
Or compare this quote about Amway (also a dangerously cult-like organisation which happens to be a corporation) on the attitudes you'll enounter when you decide to break free: "On your tombstone will be 'eternally broke'" (literal quote from a Diamond)....Despite the love and compassion exhibited by the people who love you, God help you should you quit. You may be labeled a quitter, loser, "thumb sucking pin head", bone head, idiot, moron, broke guy, wimp, socialist, mentally unstable, ego out of control, maverick non-team player etc..."
As a conservative, protestant evangelical Christian, I'm more than aware of the dangers of mind control and emotional manipulation when it comes to faith - and I fight anything that says I must blindly accept or follow.
The acronym to remember is BITE and it's all about control.
I suggest having a look at Freedom of Mind and their resources.
of an old Guardian Newspaper ad on TV (a few years back now). It showed a skinhead running towards an old man - then froze.
:)
VO: Some newspapers stop here.
Unfreeze and said Skinhead sweeps man out of the way of falling masonry i.e. it was a rescue and not a mugging.
VO: The Guardian - get the full picture.
I guess with this technology in place, computer-controlled lasers would have taken out the rescuer before he could act
...you must go and see the working model of Babbage's difference engine #2 at the Science Museum. It was completed in 1991 by the staff using Babbage's drawings and worked first time.
Amway hates people that do that.
Amway also hate people who expose them for what they try and get away with.
Amway is not a scam, and the right people can make a really good living.
Amway is much more than a scam - it borders on being a religious cult. Same methods, indoctrination, literature, motivational techniques - everything.
Amways products are more expensive, but they are all top quality.
Spoken like a true Amserf. They are more expensive and they suck according to independent tests.
Amway also contribute a lot of money to local orginizations, and foundations.
Which makes it all OK I suppose...
Agreed. Sometimes this:can be just as terrifying as seeing a picture of a beautifully-rendered 3d monster.
[root@owl.tyrell.com] /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
Starting httpd - please wait...
How old am I?
^C
My birthday's April 10 2017 - how long do I live?
^C^C^C^C
Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch!
^C^C^ZC^Z^C^Z^CZ^C^C^C^C^Z^C^C^C
Wake up! Time to die!
Starting httpd... [FAILED]
mod_leon died prematurely...
[root@owl.tyrell.com]#
The number of possible combinations of p objects chosen from a total of n is given by the combination formula:
:)
n C p = n!/(p! * (n-p)!)
I assumed 7 octaves of the Western scale (has to do with the intervals of the frequencies of the notes) which gives 91 possible notes (also assuming that middle C is a different note to say C above top F)
That gives an answer of: 91!/(4! * 87!) = 2672670
If you plug in 13 notes (a single octave) then the answer is: 13!/(4!*9!) = 715.
Either way, I'd also appreciate a discussion of his maths
Moderators, how is this a troll? This is exactly what I have running on all three machines here at home - WindowMaker + Gnome + KDE. All Gnome and KDE apps run just fine and WindowMaker is nice and fast for the desktop management.
:)
This should be at least +1 Informative for the KDE speed hint
...let them take over! Run something sane, fast and highly customisable like WindowMaker and create shortcuts or menus for your favourite g- and k-based apps.
If you really have to use KDE and want some serious speed increases, then compile both KDE and Qt from source with the switch --no-g++-exceptions. This is a hint from Linux from Scratch which works very well.
The word you were searching for is "posthumous." From Latin 'posthumus'. No homos involved.
:)
And I think the word we're all searching for is "posthemos"
Check out the first chapter of the ClueTrain Manifesto here. Interesting reading, especially his thinking processes about publishing online. I'm a devoted subscriber of his newsletter - tends to shake me out of my thinking most of the time.
Isn't your .sig from SQ4? As I read it I experienced deeply pleasant visions of playing too much Ms. Astro Chicken...
...
The change in the UI wizard's voice was astounding. Suddenly it became menacing, powerful, harsh as stone. A shadow seemed to pass over the high sun, and the porch for a moment grew dark. All trembled, and the programmers stopped their ears.
"Never before has any voice dared to utter the words of that tongue in Imlapplris,
Raskin the Arrogant," said Jobrond, as the shadow passed and the company breathed once more.
"And let us hope that none will ever speak it here again," answered Raskin.
...
Just using that phrase "designer babies" determines the conclusion. Put out a poll...
"are you in favor of designer babies - no"
"should potential parents with inheritable diseases have the right to pre-screen their embryos for those diseases- yes"
Don't forget option #3:
"Not sure - just as long as it doesn't look like CowboyNeal"
Your .sig provides perhaps the best insight on the reason :)
...is Scott Meyers' Effective C++ CD-ROM. It's sold as a seperate product from the two dead tree books it contains - Effective C++ and More Effective C++ - but the author and publishers have really worked hard on maximising the use of hyperlinks, web integration and layout. Very impressive and very handy to tote around with you if you need to be on site or something. There's also lots of added bonus articles and cross-references too. The cover claims you're never more than two clicks away from finding whatever you want to know about C++ - which I found is - amazingly enough - true.
South Africa is not a true 3rd World country. It's a strange mix of 1st and 3rd: 1st in that it has an enviable constitution, democratically elected government, advanced intrastructure, 10 times the teledensity of the rest of Africa - including three GSM operators - and a very mature IT market; 3rd in that there are still vast areas of extreme poverty and a serious serious problem with HIV in some provinces.
They DONT use open source stuff, its usually more difficult than Microsoft software and there is not enough education there to, lets say, recompile the kernel. They are in a piracy hipe, you can find full streets of pirated software stores and you can find from screensavers to SQL 2000.
Leaving aside the fact that everyone I know in South Africa can at least write better English than this post, here are a few facts: