It might also mean that > 50% of the people and the officials they elected dont care about YOUR 49% minority opinion?
"Democracy" does not mean that everyone gets their way all the time.
Also, you seem to be unaware that there is already (and has been) a law that forbids large organizations from "influencing" elections. This is exactly what the NRA was engaged in. It is no longer free speech when large groups of people are bullying others via elevated resources. If free speech is to work, it has to be fair to all. The NRA (as well as plenty of others, such as the Unions) cannot as an/organization/ try to specifically influence the public mind concerning politics.
Just as it it/illegal/ for you to excercise your "right" of free speech to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theater. Always has been, always will be.
- Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brains leak out.
Jam your gas cap under the handle to prop it open! Just be sure to touch the gas pump away from the nozzle to discharge youeself before pulling the nozzle out when you are done...
Pray tell what is "insightful" about that comment?
Here is some insight...
Bullshit like what? Mr. Son of Googol is one guy who doesn't know what he's doing, making a fool of himself. There is no way his claim will fly. Not even close, why are you or anyone else getting so upset about it?
The REAL question is, when will people stop flying off the handle over nothing? Frankly I see all the attention, and all the chicken little syndrome given to this guys claim to be more offensive and disturbing than his ignorant attempt to get rich quick.
Doh, I also forgot to mention that the fact that there are two sets of metric paper sizes (A and B) that essentially cover the same peper sizes and that the B set is actually two different sets (ISO and JIS) where B0 means either 1000x1414 or 1030x1486 makes really want to scream and stick with Imperial papers after all.:)
Starting out with a master paper size of 841 x 1189 so that divisions immediately cause fractional mm widths is logical? Since A0 is defined as being 841x1189 and A1 as 594x841, is it some new math that 594*2 == 1189? (Or 1189/2 == 594?)
Officially those fractions are rounded off. This is quite serious! You still need to keep a spec of every paper size to make sure you have it right. You CAN'T just do math in your printing application to resize things for different papers! You will either over or underprint on full bleed or your margins will be wrong.
The worst part is, the much touted "constant" ratio thing is less useful than people make it out to be. It has some utility for cutting and folding, but for layout with margins, it is no longer a constant ratio between paper sizes and resizing to different paper sizes but with the same margin size does force a relayout just as on imperial paper sizes.
I worked on printing software for 6 years and these descrepensies are not to be taken lightly. The Germans especially will take out a loupe and of you are off in your printing or margins by 1/10 of a mm then it's NO GOOD!
Serisouly, the application of the metric system to pleasing and useful paper sizes is a kludge at best. It's almost like trying to apply a metric system to time. It really doesn't fit. There is no inhereant beauty or usefulness to it at all (210x297 is as ugly as 8.5x11 for any kind of "math"). And pluses such as folding and cutting efficiency are offset by the difficulty of dealing with such odd "sizes" mentally and there is no improvement at all for the generation of content by computer programs.
The ONLY good thing about the entire world switching to metric paper sizes is that then there will not be two competeing "standards" and everyones lives will be a little easier for it.
Paper does not fold on an infinately thin line. Folding and unfolding the paper, then cutting down the center of the fold will indeed leave the cut edges messed up (Try it).
Ironicly, if you did leave the paper folded then cut off the fold, you would end up with clean edges.
Or maybe... don't move downwind of a poop farm to begin with?
Not very "nice" to move into an established situation then fork everone else over because you don't like it. Also realize that for every small farm that is closed down, food prices rise, sort of kicking yourself in the nards there.
I see new housing developments spring up all the time right next to monstrous manure piles. Who is stupid enough to move there? Who was stupid enough to BUILD there?
Actally I do and on my conventional car the the highway milage is way above the EPA rating and on my city driving it varies from slightly below (100% 1 mile/10 traffic light trips) to well above (50/50 that and 5 mile trips onthe freeway).
I think the REAL lesson here is that driving methods affect fuel millage more than anyone probably thought, on ANY kind of vehicle. Try driving your regular car like everyone is saying you have to drive your hybred, I guarantee you you will see a signifigant improvement in your milage on your "HEV" as well.
Or *GASP* Render the graphs in the actual resolution you wanted to display in the first place:) That text would have been completely readable at that size if it had not been blurred so bad by a bi-cubic resize...
You and your friend should be insanely happy that there is now even an installer for the JRE. Back when Sun/MS were both developing competing JREs, Sun could not be bothered to even create an installer (version 1.1?), besides all the hand unarchiving and copying, you have to hand create environment variables to get it to work. It was so... DOS like in a Win2k world. I was really dissapointed that the simplest user experience on initial contact with the Sun software was so completely ignored.
When recently I DLed the 1.4 JRE and saw that it had an installer and no hand tweaking of environment variables was needed, I was pretty floored, they have come along some:)
Linus probably does have a HD full of MP3s. Remember, he was the one eho publicly announced that he was running a closed source DVD decoder on his Linux box not so long ago.
Though when he gets a Kernel Panic (That's a linux B(lack)S(creen)O(f)D(eath) FYI) and tries to get tech support from himself and sees the "tainted" dump message he'll have to blow himself off for help though...:)
The official toyota one costs "only" $2500. But that's not the point. The point is that you can buy one that does quite a bit towards taking the mystery out of computer diagnosing your engine for only $200. In fact, you can buy one that hooks to your laptop of only $99! You can then graph all the parameters and monitor your engine realtime. These things used to costs multiple thousands.
It can't do everything the shop can do (Sometimes to the users benefit, I.e. the after market devices usually can't fire the airbags) But when the most common problems occur, like a failed 02 sensor, a $99 to $199 gadget can tell you this and allow you to repair your own car just as before. Maybe even better than before.
For most cars (GM, Ford, Toyota etc) an OBD 2 scanner costs about $200 and can tell you all about your car's computer diagnostics, so you can tell what is wrong with your car before you take it in for service or even decide if you want to take it on or fix it yourself. You can even reset the engine check light when you have completed the repairs.
Compaired to the cost of most car repairs, buying a scanner is a pretty good deal.
Yeah, that headlight comment is either way off (Maybe $300) or they are quoting a complete rip of dealer. Such lights usually go for about $60 a pair, though I could see maybe as high as $100 if you bought them yourself.
In general the article is correct, but most of the examples are extreme and unusual. It makes the entire article look just a little too Chicken Little to take seriously.
So who wants "clever" names for products? The plethora of "clever" naming in the computer world is nothing but a source of confusion for the actual users. Give users names like "Adobe photoshop" and they'll be much happier than "Adobe super-fire bird".
This lesson needs to be taken to heart, keep the clever code names internal, use sensible naming for actual products.
Went to see Eps 1. Was so horribly dissapointed I never went to see 2. Not seen the DVD either. (Is it out even?) Everyone says 2 was far worse than 1. Well I for one have no current plans to see 3 at all unless I'm stuck sick at home and it's being shown on Scifi and the remote is broken.
The new films have ruined my memory of the first three, which unfortunately after a great start were also rocketing in to the ground fast. And is seems that continuing the RL time sequence, each one of these is also rocketing (now completely unground) to hell.
Who knows, maybe 3 will actually be great, would make a nice finish to the series I guess. But that won't be known till it's released...
Lawer == Left-wing? WTF? Has Rush Limbaugh been whispering sweet bullshit in your ear again? Do you know where that guys lips have been? You better watch it before his programming of your brain is complete.
You are right, the lawer is full of shit. 50% of the time they are, that's what it means to be a lwyer, but you know lawers are right, left and center and they ALL lie to get their way no matter what.
And non-Americans are experts at everything Americans suck at I guess.
One of the parts was in a SCRAP YARD, NOT A DUMP! People go to scrap yards to BUY things that no longer serve their primary purpose but can still be used in some lesser or other capacity.
The other hadn't even made it to the scrap yard it was still in the building! Yeah, that's the same thing as having already thrown it out...
Or is it just fasionable to bash Americans the way it is fasionable to bash Microsoft?
Yeah but $750 in 2 months for a chip that today costs almost 4 grand? Might be more than a lot of people can pay, but is actually a pretty decent price! (I've paid a lot more for a lot less in the past)
This is yet more proof that Open Source != Automatically Secure. Nicely on the heels of the SSH hole too. It especially puts the lie to the "Many eyes on the code" reason given for the assumption that O.S. is more secure than closed source. In truth, no one (or as few as closed source) ever truly looks at, tests or audits any Open Source code other than maybe the kernel itself and possibly Apache. There is far too much of it out there and everyone is constantly working on the newest, latest, greatest thing. Who has time to go over everything? Who has the interest? Virtually no one. Should this be suprising? No, it should be expected.
It's time to give up the hyperbole (In reality "Marketing Hype") and do some actual work on REAL security in the Linux world. We are easily as guilty of lax coding and testing skils as anything that we could say about Redmond. All this head-in-the-sand "Linux is secure" crap is going to bite us in the ass HARD. I hear people saying with alarming frequency that they don't need to use a firewall with Linux because they "know" that Linux is secure. It's frightening. Are these same people going to monitor and patch every single component of their OS? No, "It's secure". Saying Linux is secure is not the same thing as ensureing that it is secure.
Time to stop talking and start doing, the "lie" cannot be propigated forever. By the time Linux becomes truly mainstream it COULD be secure if serious attention to the matter is started TODAY. Every time someone says "Linux is secure" or worse, the phrase "Linux is secure by (design|default)" it sets back the possiblility of it being TRUELY secure by another few days:(
1) Stop claiming that Linux is immune to compromise (Even the half dishonest phrases using the words "virus" or "trojan" instead of "remote exploit". Publicly slap down any person making such a false claim.
2) Improve the system greately, including code audit, hard testing, fixing the permissions system.
3) PROVE than Linux is secure "By (design|default)", THEN start announcing the fact. But always realize that there is just one more exploit out there waiting to be found. Never claim that Linux is 100% anything, it's not and never will be (Nor will any OS ever be). Claiming otherwise just looks foolish.
That is not really true. The pay sceme is slightly different. But the money is paid all up front and the resources of the studio are frequently used, or you can use some of that pay to have it done somewhere else, even in your own mini studio if that's what you want to waste the money on. But the bottom line is, the studio is virtually always paying YOU to make music. And the spec is, it must sell (Which means actually some more specs). So though the details are slightly different, the effect is the same. Most musicians are paid work for hire.
It's a little strange that they keep letting Java off the hook, blaiming Solaris for all their woes, when in fact I notice the exact same problems on Windows as well. It is most certainly the JRE on Solaris AND windows (and who knows where else) that is the real problem. The fact that Microsoft wrote a JRE that was 4 times faster than Sun (So much faster that sun had to rig their own tests to fake the results on the Sun JRE) also shows that it's the Sun JRE that is the problem.
I was SHOCKED a few months ago that the latest Windows version actually came with an install program and that I did not have to hand setup path vars for like it was 1992 or something. The JRE has been sorely neglected to the enormous detriment of Java. Suing MS and winning has done nothing but prolong the lethargy as there is now absolutely no competition left for them.
If only.NET had been truly cross platform from the start... That would have got their hearts beating again...:)
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For 500 seconds...
Converting a working 500 second demo into a commercial operation is still a huge step.
It might also mean that > 50% of the people and the officials they elected dont care about YOUR 49% minority opinion?
/organization/ try to specifically influence the public mind concerning politics.
/illegal/ for you to excercise your "right" of free speech to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theater. Always has been, always will be.
"Democracy" does not mean that everyone gets their way all the time.
Also, you seem to be unaware that there is already (and has been) a law that forbids large organizations from "influencing" elections. This is exactly what the NRA was engaged in. It is no longer free speech when large groups of people are bullying others via elevated resources. If free speech is to work, it has to be fair to all. The NRA (as well as plenty of others, such as the Unions) cannot as an
Just as it it
- Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brains leak out.
Jam your gas cap under the handle to prop it open! Just be sure to touch the gas pump away from the nozzle to discharge youeself before pulling the nozzle out when you are done...
Pray tell what is "insightful" about that comment?
Here is some insight...
Bullshit like what? Mr. Son of Googol is one guy who doesn't know what he's doing, making a fool of himself. There is no way his claim will fly. Not even close, why are you or anyone else getting so upset about it?
The REAL question is, when will people stop flying off the handle over nothing? Frankly I see all the attention, and all the chicken little syndrome given to this guys claim to be more offensive and disturbing than his ignorant attempt to get rich quick.
Doh, I also forgot to mention that the fact that there are two sets of metric paper sizes (A and B) that essentially cover the same peper sizes and that the B set is actually two different sets (ISO and JIS) where B0 means either 1000x1414 or 1030x1486 makes really want to scream and stick with Imperial papers after all. :)
Starting out with a master paper size of 841 x 1189 so that divisions immediately cause fractional mm widths is logical? Since A0 is defined as being 841x1189 and A1 as 594x841, is it some new math that 594*2 == 1189? (Or 1189/2 == 594?)
Officially those fractions are rounded off. This is quite serious! You still need to keep a spec of every paper size to make sure you have it right. You CAN'T just do math in your printing application to resize things for different papers! You will either over or underprint on full bleed or your margins will be wrong.
The worst part is, the much touted "constant" ratio thing is less useful than people make it out to be. It has some utility for cutting and folding, but for layout with margins, it is no longer a constant ratio between paper sizes and resizing to different paper sizes but with the same margin size does force a relayout just as on imperial paper sizes.
I worked on printing software for 6 years and these descrepensies are not to be taken lightly. The Germans especially will take out a loupe and of you are off in your printing or margins by 1/10 of a mm then it's NO GOOD!
Serisouly, the application of the metric system to pleasing and useful paper sizes is a kludge at best. It's almost like trying to apply a metric system to time. It really doesn't fit. There is no inhereant beauty or usefulness to it at all (210x297 is as ugly as 8.5x11 for any kind of "math"). And pluses such as folding and cutting efficiency are offset by the difficulty of dealing with such odd "sizes" mentally and there is no improvement at all for the generation of content by computer programs.
The ONLY good thing about the entire world switching to metric paper sizes is that then there will not be two competeing "standards" and everyones lives will be a little easier for it.
Paper does not fold on an infinately thin line. Folding and unfolding the paper, then cutting down the center of the fold will indeed leave the cut edges messed up (Try it).
Ironicly, if you did leave the paper folded then cut off the fold, you would end up with clean edges.
First, a "theory" cannot "prove" anything.
Second, not one single aspect of either of the compeating string theories has been proven to date.
Third, even if additional dimensions DO exist. "Additional dimensions" != "Alternate universes".
Or maybe... don't move downwind of a poop farm to begin with?
Not very "nice" to move into an established situation then fork everone else over because you don't like it. Also realize that for every small farm that is closed down, food prices rise, sort of kicking yourself in the nards there.
I see new housing developments spring up all the time right next to monstrous manure piles. Who is stupid enough to move there? Who was stupid enough to BUILD there?
Actally I do and on my conventional car the the highway milage is way above the EPA rating and on my city driving it varies from slightly below (100% 1 mile/10 traffic light trips) to well above (50/50 that and 5 mile trips onthe freeway).
I think the REAL lesson here is that driving methods affect fuel millage more than anyone probably thought, on ANY kind of vehicle. Try driving your regular car like everyone is saying you have to drive your hybred, I guarantee you you will see a signifigant improvement in your milage on your "HEV" as well.
Or *GASP* Render the graphs in the actual resolution you wanted to display in the first place :) That text would have been completely readable at that size if it had not been blurred so bad by a bi-cubic resize...
You and your friend should be insanely happy that there is now even an installer for the JRE. Back when Sun/MS were both developing competing JREs, Sun could not be bothered to even create an installer (version 1.1?), besides all the hand unarchiving and copying, you have to hand create environment variables to get it to work. It was so... DOS like in a Win2k world. I was really dissapointed that the simplest user experience on initial contact with the Sun software was so completely ignored.
:)
When recently I DLed the 1.4 JRE and saw that it had an installer and no hand tweaking of environment variables was needed, I was pretty floored, they have come along some
Linus probably does have a HD full of MP3s. Remember, he was the one eho publicly announced that he was running a closed source DVD decoder on his Linux box not so long ago.
:)
Though when he gets a Kernel Panic (That's a linux B(lack)S(creen)O(f)D(eath) FYI) and tries to get tech support from himself and sees the "tainted" dump message he'll have to blow himself off for help though...
The official toyota one costs "only" $2500. But that's not the point. The point is that you can buy one that does quite a bit towards taking the mystery out of computer diagnosing your engine for only $200. In fact, you can buy one that hooks to your laptop of only $99! You can then graph all the parameters and monitor your engine realtime. These things used to costs multiple thousands.
It can't do everything the shop can do (Sometimes to the users benefit, I.e. the after market devices usually can't fire the airbags) But when the most common problems occur, like a failed 02 sensor, a $99 to $199 gadget can tell you this and allow you to repair your own car just as before. Maybe even better than before.
For most cars (GM, Ford, Toyota etc) an OBD 2 scanner costs about $200 and can tell you all about your car's computer diagnostics, so you can tell what is wrong with your car before you take it in for service or even decide if you want to take it on or fix it yourself. You can even reset the engine check light when you have completed the repairs.
Compaired to the cost of most car repairs, buying a scanner is a pretty good deal.
Yeah, that headlight comment is either way off (Maybe $300) or they are quoting a complete rip of dealer. Such lights usually go for about $60 a pair, though I could see maybe as high as $100 if you bought them yourself.
In general the article is correct, but most of the examples are extreme and unusual. It makes the entire article look just a little too Chicken Little to take seriously.
So who wants "clever" names for products? The plethora of "clever" naming in the computer world is nothing but a source of confusion for the actual users. Give users names like "Adobe photoshop" and they'll be much happier than "Adobe super-fire bird".
This lesson needs to be taken to heart, keep the clever code names internal, use sensible naming for actual products.
Went to see Eps 1. Was so horribly dissapointed I never went to see 2. Not seen the DVD either. (Is it out even?) Everyone says 2 was far worse than 1. Well I for one have no current plans to see 3 at all unless I'm stuck sick at home and it's being shown on Scifi and the remote is broken.
The new films have ruined my memory of the first three, which unfortunately after a great start were also rocketing in to the ground fast. And is seems that continuing the RL time sequence, each one of these is also rocketing (now completely unground) to hell.
Who knows, maybe 3 will actually be great, would make a nice finish to the series I guess. But that won't be known till it's released...
Lawer == Left-wing? WTF? Has Rush Limbaugh been whispering sweet bullshit in your ear again? Do you know where that guys lips have been? You better watch it before his programming of your brain is complete.
You are right, the lawer is full of shit. 50% of the time they are, that's what it means to be a lwyer, but you know lawers are right, left and center and they ALL lie to get their way no matter what.
Hey, I'm an insane geek and I married an insane geek wife. We geek squared all the time!
And non-Americans are experts at everything Americans suck at I guess.
One of the parts was in a SCRAP YARD, NOT A DUMP! People go to scrap yards to BUY things that no longer serve their primary purpose but can still be used in some lesser or other capacity.
The other hadn't even made it to the scrap yard it was still in the building! Yeah, that's the same thing as having already thrown it out...
Or is it just fasionable to bash Americans the way it is fasionable to bash Microsoft?
Yeah but $750 in 2 months for a chip that today costs almost 4 grand? Might be more than a lot of people can pay, but is actually a pretty decent price! (I've paid a lot more for a lot less in the past)
This is yet more proof that Open Source != Automatically Secure. Nicely on the heels of the SSH hole too. It especially puts the lie to the "Many eyes on the code" reason given for the assumption that O.S. is more secure than closed source. In truth, no one (or as few as closed source) ever truly looks at, tests or audits any Open Source code other than maybe the kernel itself and possibly Apache. There is far too much of it out there and everyone is constantly working on the newest, latest, greatest thing. Who has time to go over everything? Who has the interest? Virtually no one. Should this be suprising? No, it should be expected.
:(
It's time to give up the hyperbole (In reality "Marketing Hype") and do some actual work on REAL security in the Linux world. We are easily as guilty of lax coding and testing skils as anything that we could say about Redmond. All this head-in-the-sand "Linux is secure" crap is going to bite us in the ass HARD. I hear people saying with alarming frequency that they don't need to use a firewall with Linux because they "know" that Linux is secure. It's frightening. Are these same people going to monitor and patch every single component of their OS? No, "It's secure". Saying Linux is secure is not the same thing as ensureing that it is secure.
Time to stop talking and start doing, the "lie" cannot be propigated forever. By the time Linux becomes truly mainstream it COULD be secure if serious attention to the matter is started TODAY. Every time someone says "Linux is secure" or worse, the phrase "Linux is secure by (design|default)" it sets back the possiblility of it being TRUELY secure by another few days
1) Stop claiming that Linux is immune to compromise (Even the half dishonest phrases using the words "virus" or "trojan" instead of "remote exploit". Publicly slap down any person making such a false claim.
2) Improve the system greately, including code audit, hard testing, fixing the permissions system.
3) PROVE than Linux is secure "By (design|default)", THEN start announcing the fact. But always realize that there is just one more exploit out there waiting to be found. Never claim that Linux is 100% anything, it's not and never will be (Nor will any OS ever be). Claiming otherwise just looks foolish.
That is not really true. The pay sceme is slightly different. But the money is paid all up front and the resources of the studio are frequently used, or you can use some of that pay to have it done somewhere else, even in your own mini studio if that's what you want to waste the money on. But the bottom line is, the studio is virtually always paying YOU to make music. And the spec is, it must sell (Which means actually some more specs). So though the details are slightly different, the effect is the same. Most musicians are paid work for hire.
It's a little strange that they keep letting Java off the hook, blaiming Solaris for all their woes, when in fact I notice the exact same problems on Windows as well. It is most certainly the JRE on Solaris AND windows (and who knows where else) that is the real problem. The fact that Microsoft wrote a JRE that was 4 times faster than Sun (So much faster that sun had to rig their own tests to fake the results on the Sun JRE) also shows that it's the Sun JRE that is the problem.
.NET had been truly cross platform from the start... That would have got their hearts beating again... :)
I was SHOCKED a few months ago that the latest Windows version actually came with an install program and that I did not have to hand setup path vars for like it was 1992 or something. The JRE has been sorely neglected to the enormous detriment of Java. Suing MS and winning has done nothing but prolong the lethargy as there is now absolutely no competition left for them.
If only