No, that's the way normal human beings interact. Only people who have never really spent much time in a diverse, multiethnic environment get offended by such things... the rest of us tease each other constantly and have a grand old time.
Been in 'multiethnic' evironments all my life too.
Personally, I don't enjoy the stereotype.
These stereotypes are 'cute' if you only run into them once in a while. But what happens when you're trying to communicate at your job or to a customer and the person is intimidated because they think you're probably aggressive?
Then, hiring managers who 'understand' those social dynamics don't put you in front of customers because of this as well?
Or cops, who are more likely to use brute force because they are more likely to get intimidated by you.
Trust me, those are not as far-fetched as you probably think.
Bottom line is that these stereotypes cause many people to be intimated. Intimidated people act funny, or rather irrational. They overcompensate for their fear, so you either get an overly accommodating or aggressive response many times. In most situations that's ok, because we all have to deal with jerks but this becomes a problem when dealing with work or authorities.
Or rather everything is art...
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I think the deeper message that we can draw out here is that there is no such thing as art. In other words, there is no unbreachable division between what is art and what is not, and there is no magical quintessence that makes something automatically artistic.
Maybe "everything is art" is closer to what you are getting at?
Wikipedia, as usual, as a good writeup on Defining art ( Why the editors don't routinely include WP links on core concepts, is beyond me ).
My personal definition of art is anything that inspires without obvious utility.
What are "the media companies" and why would they be behind this?
The article was posted by a 'kdawson', I bet that's the new guy.
We all know that Taco and his crack team of editors would never let such an unfounded and inflammatory statement on the front page of this outstanding news establishment.
So cut the guys some slack. After all, I bet you this Dawson kid will be reprimanded and articles will be back to the high standard of journalism we're use to in no time.
I thought the exact thing
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The first thought I had was that the world was a lesser place without him,...
Even after reading the story, I smiled when I saw him in character. This guy was an amazing educator and entertainer.
First thing that crossed my mind was "With all what's going on, this world needs more Steve Irwin's, not less".
We KNOW they made them and we KNOW they had them. However, theres no telling where they ended up. My guess is more than a little ended up directly in the hands of the "turrists". Some are probably buried out in the desert that is most of Iraq.
Oh maybe he left them for the tooth fairy, or maybe for Santa Clause in lieu of milk and cookies, or maybe....
Apple is committed to the EICC and demands that its suppliers treat their employees well.
Except that Apple buys a much of components from samsung directly, not even counting what they use as a result of the contracts they put out. At one point Apple was getting 40% of Samsungs flash memory capacity.
If you had presented allegations of worker abuse to either Acer or Samsung, their managers would have arranged for security to throw you out of their offices.
Where are you getting this? Can you back this up with any instances?
This is a troublesome bug when you're populating DIV tags with generated data. You don't even have to be doing anything advanced.
Microsoft knows about the Position Is Everything Explorer bug list. I've seen IE engineers mention it on their blogs. So I don't buy the "we don't know of specific bugs" routine. And if he wants more concrete bug reports after that set, then theres the Comparison of Layout Engines page which goes through the CSS specs in detail. I'm sure Micrsoft has fixed a bunch of those since IE6, but there are outstanding issues in IE7.
Most software engineers would pay large sums of money to have that type of detail in bug reports. Microsoft is getting that for free, but he is complaining that he does not have solid cases.
People who refuse to apply Occam's razor in favor of their literal interpretation of the bible, complete with an invisible bearded man in the sky, seem to me to fit some definition of mental illness.
Most people do not know what Occam's razor is.
Also, what I am saying is to try to understand how others come to their conclusions instead of simply writing them off as 'crazy'.
They're not connecting with reality, and I feel bad for those people who continue to blindly follow the paths of organized religion (which has done OH SOOOO much good for the world over the last several years).
Even the Pope agrees that the theory of evolution does not go against his religion. People continue fighting this battle of science versus religion on slashdot which is barely, if even, existant.
Religion does much good to people today. It just doesn't make the news. Someone becoming a missionary and going to the jungles somewhere to teach a proverty stricken tribe how to avoid disease and get by economically doesn't make the news. I religious nut blowing himself up will make every headline within minutes.
Belief in a supernatural being that created you and the rest of the world and now runs it is, without doubt, a species of mental illness.
Meanwhile, people who disagree are saying that you, 'without doubt', are wrong. Calling them mentally ill, or any other insults does not strengthen your case. It just lowers the quality of the discussion.
Why are they mentally ill?
Personally, I believe the theory of evolution but I don't see how people that disagree with me should be considered 'sick' or 'backward'. Maybe they just have different way of seeing the world.
but these days I'm starting to think that you and I (dear atheirst read)/are/ the post-humans; the majority of the human race (regardless of the US quotient) seem to be profoundly different from you and I.
So you are more evolved than people that disagree with you, simply because of your views.
A perfect Java distro would maybe drop all the deprecated methods (will Sun ever do that? Java 1.6 is a good opportunity...) and unbundle some of the least-used stuff like the CORBA and RMI stuff. Heck, even Swing and AWT should be optional packages.
Is this "open source" as in Sun's Solaris "open sourcing", where it's open source in all technical senses, but it's under an unbelievably elaborate license which exists for no reason except to engender GPL incompatibility and keep Linux from benefiting from the source release, which effectively scares everyone away from the project?
Care to explain this a bit?
Sun Public License is an official open-source license. What is "unbelievably elaborate" about it?
And what did they do to 'purposely' endanger GPL compatibility?
Should the Berkeley people complain about GPL 'purposely endangering' BSD compatibility?
Politically charging you code license is just a bad and stupid idea.
I am sure the intent was not to 'politically charge' their code. Anyway, isn't that what a lot of people were saying about the GPL itself?
First my making open source closed to some groups because you happen to dislike them breaks the concept of open...
It breaks your idea of open.
Second your making opponents where you don't have to.
Correct. They're taking a stand; something that's quite rare these days it seems ( not that I agree with them, but I admire the gesture ).
Third it won't change anything except you will have to pay more taxes.
Maybe they're not from a country that spends an obscene amount of tax revenue on the military?
Forth by blocking evil use you are also blocking good use. Example all this extra features could be used to...
That, I agree with.
Fifth you just look bad and hypocritical, you are all up for Openness freedom of speech except for when it says something you don't like.
I don't think its hypocritical at all. Every free speech law or rule I've every seen puts some restriction on what you say.
It is a dangerious direction, so I can make code free to use for anyone except for people who are going to use it for making Fast Food, because we all know Fast Food is bad. Making programs as a political statement is just dangerous and will lead to a class based society
You think you're not in a class based society?:)
Most of the posts against this license sound like Bill Gates arguments against the GPL a few years ago. But you have to face. It's their code, it's their EULA.
Part of the reason RIAA is going after the free music databases is that they would like to sell you the sheet music for about $5 per song. Checkout MusicNotes. In fact I've seen songs for more than $10 bucks on there, depending on the format.
I never got tabs, they're often incorrect and missing a lot of information. But there is no way guitarist are going to spend $5 per song for sheet music en masse. Personally, I prefer buying books of non-RIAA songs.
They saw that legal online music only took off after iTunes started selling music for $1...
PS. Does anyone know of an online database of public-domain MusicXML sheet music?
What is interesting, but not really surprising, is that Microsoft chose to replace the unsafe functions such as strcpy with their own safe variants with names like safe_strcpy (though I can't remember the exact name, it's something like that). They could have just recommended people used already-existing functions such as strncpy or strlcpy, instead of adding yet another incompatibility obstacle that must be surmounted when porting software from/to the Windows platform...
I'm guessing there is something different with caldav vs the old system of just throwing up ical files via webdav.
Yes. The old system wasn't really a standard. Eg. How can the client figure out your free/busy time? Or how should the files be name? etc.
CalDAV specifies storage, and also the reporting of the stored calendar data. So the calendar client can ask 'What events happen between th 10th and 14th?' or a query for appointments in the month of June, etc. without downloading an entire folder of *.ics files.
Will Open Connector allow for synchronisation as well or will it only provide import/export?
It does allow you to view/modify events on a CalDAV server in Outlook as if it were on an Exchange server.
i.e. can I synchronise my work calender (which uses Outlook/Exchange) to a second server and sync that one with my own PC/phone/PDA/whatever?
That's the plan, though things are buggy still. We haven't completed sharing, though individual calendars work.
The connector is different from import/export filters. It's replaces Outlook's local message store and transport storage layers entirely with its own implementation that supports CalDAV. This is basically the approach Lotus, etc. take to provide Outlook access to their servers.
By the way, iCal isn't an Apple format; although it was invented there, it's been submitted as a standard IIRC.
I don't think so. iCal, ie. iCalendar is RFC 2445. Microsoft and Lotus employees are listed as principals on that one. That became a standard in '98.
What Apple did, unfortunately, is choose the iCal name for their application. A name most people used to refer to the files conforming to RFC 2445 and others.
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No, that's the way normal human beings interact. Only people who have never really spent much time in a diverse, multiethnic environment get offended by such things... the rest of us tease each other constantly and have a grand old time.
Been in 'multiethnic' evironments all my life too.
Personally, I don't enjoy the stereotype.
These stereotypes are 'cute' if you only run into them once in a while. But what happens when you're trying to communicate at your job or to a customer and the person is intimidated because they think you're probably aggressive?
Then, hiring managers who 'understand' those social dynamics don't put you in front of customers because of this as well?
Or cops, who are more likely to use brute force because they are more likely to get intimidated by you.
Trust me, those are not as far-fetched as you probably think.
Bottom line is that these stereotypes cause many people to be intimated. Intimidated people act funny, or rather irrational. They overcompensate for their fear, so you either get an overly accommodating or aggressive response many times. In most situations that's ok, because we all have to deal with jerks but this becomes a problem when dealing with work or authorities.
I think the deeper message that we can draw out here is that there is no such thing as art. In other words, there is no unbreachable division between what is art and what is not, and there is no magical quintessence that makes something automatically artistic.
Maybe "everything is art" is closer to what you are getting at?
Wikipedia, as usual, as a good writeup on Defining art ( Why the editors don't routinely include WP links on core concepts, is beyond me ).
My personal definition of art is anything that inspires without obvious utility.
What are "the media companies" and why would they be behind this?
The article was posted by a 'kdawson', I bet that's the new guy.
We all know that Taco and his crack team of editors would never let such an unfounded and inflammatory statement on the front page of this outstanding news establishment.
So cut the guys some slack. After all, I bet you this Dawson kid will be reprimanded and articles will be back to the high standard of journalism we're use to in no time.
The first thought I had was that the world was a lesser place without him,...
Even after reading the story, I smiled when I saw him in character. This guy was an amazing educator and entertainer.
First thing that crossed my mind was "With all what's going on, this world needs more Steve Irwin's, not less".
R.I.P. Croc' Hunter
The article uses OpenLDAP as the LDAP server. Has anyone got this to work using the Apache Directory Server?
It's on Youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsXUPmWAfhY
We KNOW they made them and we KNOW they had them. However, theres no telling where they ended up. My guess is more than a little ended up directly in the hands of the "turrists". Some are probably buried out in the desert that is most of Iraq.
Oh maybe he left them for the tooth fairy, or maybe for Santa Clause in lieu of milk and cookies, or maybe....
Apple is committed to the EICC and demands that its suppliers treat their employees well.
Except that Apple buys a much of components from samsung directly, not even counting what they use as a result of the contracts they put out. At one point Apple was getting 40% of Samsungs flash memory capacity.
If you had presented allegations of worker abuse to either Acer or Samsung, their managers would have arranged for security to throw you out of their offices.
Where are you getting this? Can you back this up with any instances?
Yeah so, move along... nothing to see here.
How are free OSes going to make in-roads into the desktop market without media players that support popular codecs legally?
Please open up your own format first before going and opening up other peoples' formats.
They have, AFAIK.
Helix Community offers the open source Helix Player which supports encoding and transcoding of RM along with a bunch of other formats.
From Chris' Blog...
Last I heard IE7 does not fix the Expanding Box Bug?
This is a troublesome bug when you're populating DIV tags with generated data. You don't even have to be doing anything advanced.
Microsoft knows about the Position Is Everything Explorer bug list. I've seen IE engineers mention it on their blogs. So I don't buy the "we don't know of specific bugs" routine. And if he wants more concrete bug reports after that set, then theres the Comparison of Layout Engines page which goes through the CSS specs in detail. I'm sure Micrsoft has fixed a bunch of those since IE6, but there are outstanding issues in IE7.
Most software engineers would pay large sums of money to have that type of detail in bug reports. Microsoft is getting that for free, but he is complaining that he does not have solid cases.
People who refuse to apply Occam's razor in favor of their literal interpretation of the bible, complete with an invisible bearded man in the sky, seem to me to fit some definition of mental illness.
Most people do not know what Occam's razor is.
Also, what I am saying is to try to understand how others come to their conclusions instead of simply writing them off as 'crazy'.
In other words, a little understanding helps.
Just some food for thought.
Controversy sells. This is the only reason this topic keeps comming up.
Most people have made their peace between science and religion, and even the Pope agrees that the theory of evolution is sound. So where is the issue?
They're not connecting with reality, and I feel bad for those people who continue to blindly follow the paths of organized religion (which has done OH SOOOO much good for the world over the last several years).
Even the Pope agrees that the theory of evolution does not go against his religion. People continue fighting this battle of science versus religion on slashdot which is barely, if even, existant.
Religion does much good to people today. It just doesn't make the news. Someone becoming a missionary and going to the jungles somewhere to teach a proverty stricken tribe how to avoid disease and get by economically doesn't make the news. I religious nut blowing himself up will make every headline within minutes.
Question what you're being fed...
On the contrary, it's unfortunate that people have a religious or 'spiritual belief'.
And it's even more unfortunate that people do not understand what religion is.
Religion is just a form of social control.
Your laws stem from organized religion.
Religion still does good in many societies without a strong secular method of government.
There is nothing inherently 'bad' about religion. It is a tool, with no conscience.
It really is sad that people that claim themselves scientist don't even take the time to study something that they seem to dispise so badly.
Belief in a supernatural being that created you and the rest of the world and now runs it is, without doubt, a species of mental illness.
Meanwhile, people who disagree are saying that you, 'without doubt', are wrong. Calling them mentally ill, or any other insults does not strengthen your case. It just lowers the quality of the discussion.
Why are they mentally ill?
Personally, I believe the theory of evolution but I don't see how people that disagree with me should be considered 'sick' or 'backward'. Maybe they just have different way of seeing the world.
but these days I'm starting to think that you and I (dear atheirst read) /are/ the post-humans; the majority of the human race (regardless of the US quotient) seem to be profoundly different from you and I.
So you are more evolved than people that disagree with you, simply because of your views.
That's a dangerous trend of thought.
And according to this study 64% of respondents believed that aliens have contacted humans.
Many, many people all of the world do not 'get' science. It has nothing to do with religion. This happens all over the world.
A perfect Java distro would maybe drop all the deprecated methods (will Sun ever do that? Java 1.6 is a good opportunity...) and unbundle some of the least-used stuff like the CORBA and RMI stuff. Heck, even Swing and AWT should be optional packages.
And the fragmentation begins...
Is this "open source" as in Sun's Solaris "open sourcing", where it's open source in all technical senses, but it's under an unbelievably elaborate license which exists for no reason except to engender GPL incompatibility and keep Linux from benefiting from the source release, which effectively scares everyone away from the project?
Care to explain this a bit?
Sun Public License is an official open-source license. What is "unbelievably elaborate" about it?
And what did they do to 'purposely' endanger GPL compatibility?
Should the Berkeley people complain about GPL 'purposely endangering' BSD compatibility?
Politically charging you code license is just a bad and stupid idea.
I am sure the intent was not to 'politically charge' their code. Anyway, isn't that what a lot of people were saying about the GPL itself?
First my making open source closed to some groups because you happen to dislike them breaks the concept of open...
It breaks your idea of open.
Second your making opponents where you don't have to.
Correct. They're taking a stand; something that's quite rare these days it seems ( not that I agree with them, but I admire the gesture ).
Third it won't change anything except you will have to pay more taxes.
Maybe they're not from a country that spends an obscene amount of tax revenue on the military?
Forth by blocking evil use you are also blocking good use. Example all this extra features could be used to...
That, I agree with.
Fifth you just look bad and hypocritical, you are all up for Openness freedom of speech except for when it says something you don't like.
I don't think its hypocritical at all. Every free speech law or rule I've every seen puts some restriction on what you say.
It is a dangerious direction, so I can make code free to use for anyone except for people who are going to use it for making Fast Food, because we all know Fast Food is bad. Making programs as a political statement is just dangerous and will lead to a class based society
You think you're not in a class based society? :)
Most of the posts against this license sound like Bill Gates arguments against the GPL a few years ago. But you have to face. It's their code, it's their EULA.
Frankly, I've seen worse.
Part of the reason RIAA is going after the free music databases is that they would like to sell you the sheet music for about $5 per song. Checkout MusicNotes. In fact I've seen songs for more than $10 bucks on there, depending on the format.
I never got tabs, they're often incorrect and missing a lot of information. But there is no way guitarist are going to spend $5 per song for sheet music en masse. Personally, I prefer buying books of non-RIAA songs.
They saw that legal online music only took off after iTunes started selling music for $1...
PS. Does anyone know of an online database of public-domain MusicXML sheet music?
What is interesting, but not really surprising, is that Microsoft chose to replace the unsafe functions such as strcpy with their own safe variants with names like safe_strcpy (though I can't remember the exact name, it's something like that). They could have just recommended people used already-existing functions such as strncpy or strlcpy, instead of adding yet another incompatibility obstacle that must be surmounted when porting software from/to the Windows platform...
Unless I am mistaken, strcpy_s() and the other 'safe' variants are part of and ISO standard. Check out https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov/daisy/bsi/arti cles/knowledge/coding/314.html
The thing is even the wiki article gets this wrong.
I think Bill is waiting for an apology for your rant :)
I'm guessing there is something different with caldav vs the old system of just throwing up ical files via webdav.
Yes. The old system wasn't really a standard. Eg. How can the client figure out your free/busy time? Or how should the files be name? etc.
CalDAV specifies storage, and also the reporting of the stored calendar data. So the calendar client can ask 'What events happen between th 10th and 14th?' or a query for appointments in the month of June, etc. without downloading an entire folder of *.ics files.
The situation is much improved.
Will Open Connector allow for synchronisation as well or will it only provide import/export?
It does allow you to view/modify events on a CalDAV server in Outlook as if it were on an Exchange server.
i.e. can I synchronise my work calender (which uses Outlook/Exchange) to a second server and sync that one with my own PC/phone/PDA/whatever?
That's the plan, though things are buggy still. We haven't completed sharing, though individual calendars work.
The connector is different from import/export filters. It's replaces Outlook's local message store and transport storage layers entirely with its own implementation that supports CalDAV. This is basically the approach Lotus, etc. take to provide Outlook access to their servers.
By the way, iCal isn't an Apple format; although it was invented there, it's been submitted as a standard IIRC.
I don't think so. iCal, ie. iCalendar is RFC 2445. Microsoft and Lotus employees are listed as principals on that one. That became a standard in '98.
What Apple did, unfortunately, is choose the iCal name for their application. A name most people used to refer to the files conforming to RFC 2445 and others.