Kids these days with their "in car entertainment" and their "iPods" and whatnot; when I was their age all we had to do in the back of the station wagon was fight with our brothers and sisters and make faces at the cars behind us!
Being serious now, I do feel bad for today's kids. When I was growing up, you could sleep across the back seat or climb up front to hang out with the parents. On quiet stretches of the interstate, Dad would let me sit on his lap and steer while he worked the pedals. Sure, it was unsafe as hell, but it beat being continuously strapped down as is mandated now. I can't blame the kids for wanting their DSes and iPods because they're stuck in their seats for 8 hours at a time.
I might be quite backward in my thinking here but... I pay my isp for a subscription to access the internets (every last one of them).
First, I agree with your conclusion: block anything you want. It's your browser.
That said, your logic sucks. "I bought a television, therefore I shouldn't have to see ads." Paying for the TV addresses exactly one business model: that of the manufacturer. Beyond that, the people who generate the content you enjoy still have to get paid somehow. This is a classic "tragedy of the commons" situation. Carried to its logical conclusion, if everyone blocked all ads, how will content providers supports themselves? It sure isn't through selling subscriptions; look at the reaction to Murdoch's "paywall" plan.
I don't like advertising any more than you do, I promise. That said, its currently what's paying for me to read the sites I like for free. I block Flash in general because I've never seen a Flash animation that didn't make me want to throatstab someone, but I don't touch static ad images. If Microsoft wants to pay Slashdot to stick a GIF on this page, then thanks to them.
Do you immediately rip all the ads out of every magazine or newspaper you read? If not, why? It's the exact same business model as ad-supported websites, with the exception that you generally have to buy magazines and newspapers.
LOL. 50+? I bet it runs into the hundreds of thousands, and not even Google could keep up with the changes. Imagine rules like:
if (zipcode == '59025') if (purchaserisinsidecitylimits) if (itemcategory == 'food') if (itemiscooked && paymentmethod != 'government') // Prepared foods are taxable taxpercent = 6.25; else // Unprepared foods and government cheese (pizzas) aren't taxpercent = 0; else if (itemisenjoyable) // Beer, cigarettes, etc. taxpercent = 20; else // nonfoods if (itemcost > 5000) // luxury tax rate taxpercent = 15; else if (itemsubcategory == 'weirdassloopholething') // Joe's Tires lobbied for a tax cut for valve stems flattaxdollars = 1.34; else // Pencils and papers are untaxed the weekend before school starts if (datetype == 'taxfreeholiday' and itemsubcategory == 'schoolsupplies') flattaxdollars = 0; else // This is the rate voters actually approved taxpercent = 7.5; else taxpercent = 4.825;
That's what you'd call a bailout to the COBOL industry.
P.S.: Slashdot admins: did it ever occur to you that someone might want to post code in a comment on a website for programmers and sysadmins and other geeks? Why must you make it so painful?
Barring truly revolutionary advances in silicon device fabrication, and(I'm not sufficiently up on my physics to know for sure) possibly a change in physics, sputtering a thin metallic film with the appropriate magnetic properties will always be cheaper, per square centimeter, than fabbing a complex integrated circuit.
But what will the price difference be per cub centimeter? As chips (eventually) transition to stacked designs, I'd be willing to bet that you can stack a lot more layers of silicon per unit height than you can spinning platters that allow enough room for air flow, head thickness, etc.
Trying to infer guilt from this (tempting though it may be) violates what most of us stand for.
I disagree. You obviously can't convict someone based on their invocation of the 5th, but you can darn well form an opinion of that person and their actions.
But that's not what's happening in our schools already; Just look at the Zero Tolerance statutes!
Oh, I hear you and I agree completely. Like so many other things done in the name of security, the downsides are a lot easier to see than any marginal advantages.
I imagine that the software is a Bayesian filter that takes in lots of seemingly unrelated factors and combines them into a score. First, yeah, I get the obvious dystopian implications - I won't argue against the awful possibilities if it were widely deployed. That said, isn't it possible that it could genuinely help some kids? Suppose those factors like increased absences and a couple of minor contacts with police indicate that Johnny is extremely likely to drop out of school. Maybe that's a good hint that someone needs to talk to Johnny and see if something correctable is going on in his life.
I have my own anecdote. It wasn't "just" physical therapy, except in the sense that it was physical manipulation and that it was therapeutic. I'll go to a chiropractor for back pain any day. Cancer or appendicitis? Not likely.
As long as you continue to feed your nicotine addiction, you will never be able to break yourself away from these crutches.
I am addicted to caffeine. It's not causing health issues and I love coffee, so why should I have any desire to break away from it? Substitute nicotine for caffeine; is there something fundamentally different that breaks the logic?
The argument over sex is actually more interesting. If you don't have dogmatic sexual restrictions (sex before marriage is a crime and/or draws severe social stigma that totally fucks up your life), society's morals drift. Society will then eventually stabilize at a point where you can just walk up to anyone and suggest fucking, and get it right there; sex flows freely, about as easy as hugs and handshakes.
Without dogmatic sexual restrictions, would that be a bad thing, assuming the health repercussions could be addressed?
"Chiropractic is often described as two professions masquerading as one. Unlike the distinction between podiatry (a science-based profession for foot disorders) and foot reflexology (an unscientific philosophy which posits that many disorders arise from the feet), in chiropractic the two professions attempt to live under one roof, albeit with much tension between them."
My wife's a podiatrist and sometimes deals with that. She went through pre-med undergrad, 4 years of med school, and 2 years of surgical residency. She has no belief in "alternative medicine" whatsoever, but she'll be more than happy to reconstruct your foot if you need it. Still, she has a surprising number of requests for non-medical treatment.
Pro-tip: Don't use a foreign word and go out of your way to point out that you're using a foreign word (quotes, accents, etc.) unless you're really, really sure you know the foreign word.
When I can get a 1TB 3.5" SATA drive [ebuyer.com] for £61.33 (approx $94.58), I'm not sure how something which is 42 times more expensive can be considered "affordable".
For you and me? It isn't. For the database guy or the NAS admin who's installing one to act as as ZFS L2 cache, it's pretty dead simple.
We count babies as "born" which most countries end up counting as "stillborn," which hits a different category in the stats.
I've also wondered how the US ranks on number of immigrants (legal or illegal) coming to America to have their babies born on American soil. If a coyote smuggles an 8-month-pregnant woman in poor health into the country, and the birth has a poor outcome, does that count against us?
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Kids these days with their "in car entertainment" and their "iPods" and whatnot; when I was their age all we had to do in the back of the station wagon was fight with our brothers and sisters and make faces at the cars behind us!
Being serious now, I do feel bad for today's kids. When I was growing up, you could sleep across the back seat or climb up front to hang out with the parents. On quiet stretches of the interstate, Dad would let me sit on his lap and steer while he worked the pedals. Sure, it was unsafe as hell, but it beat being continuously strapped down as is mandated now. I can't blame the kids for wanting their DSes and iPods because they're stuck in their seats for 8 hours at a time.
I might be quite backward in my thinking here but... I pay my isp for a subscription to access the internets (every last one of them).
First, I agree with your conclusion: block anything you want. It's your browser.
That said, your logic sucks. "I bought a television, therefore I shouldn't have to see ads." Paying for the TV addresses exactly one business model: that of the manufacturer. Beyond that, the people who generate the content you enjoy still have to get paid somehow. This is a classic "tragedy of the commons" situation. Carried to its logical conclusion, if everyone blocked all ads, how will content providers supports themselves? It sure isn't through selling subscriptions; look at the reaction to Murdoch's "paywall" plan.
I don't like advertising any more than you do, I promise. That said, its currently what's paying for me to read the sites I like for free. I block Flash in general because I've never seen a Flash animation that didn't make me want to throatstab someone, but I don't touch static ad images. If Microsoft wants to pay Slashdot to stick a GIF on this page, then thanks to them.
Do you immediately rip all the ads out of every magazine or newspaper you read? If not, why? It's the exact same business model as ad-supported websites, with the exception that you generally have to buy magazines and newspapers.
Waking from hibernation, OTOH, uses the hard drive a lot.
And even then, mainly in long sequential reads where SSDs aren't vastly faster than HDDs.
LOL. 50+? I bet it runs into the hundreds of thousands, and not even Google could keep up with the changes. Imagine rules like:
// Prepared foods are taxable
// Unprepared foods and government cheese (pizzas) aren't
// Beer, cigarettes, etc.
// nonfoods
// luxury tax rate
// Joe's Tires lobbied for a tax cut for valve stems
// Pencils and papers are untaxed the weekend before school starts
// This is the rate voters actually approved
if (zipcode == '59025')
if (purchaserisinsidecitylimits)
if (itemcategory == 'food')
if (itemiscooked && paymentmethod != 'government')
taxpercent = 6.25;
else
taxpercent = 0;
else if (itemisenjoyable)
taxpercent = 20;
else
if (itemcost > 5000)
taxpercent = 15;
else
if (itemsubcategory == 'weirdassloopholething')
flattaxdollars = 1.34;
else
if (datetype == 'taxfreeholiday' and itemsubcategory == 'schoolsupplies')
flattaxdollars = 0;
else
taxpercent = 7.5;
else
taxpercent = 4.825;
That's what you'd call a bailout to the COBOL industry.
P.S.: Slashdot admins: did it ever occur to you that someone might want to post code in a comment on a website for programmers and sysadmins and other geeks? Why must you make it so painful?
Use:
That will work unless the filenames contain nulls in them. They won't.
Python is FOSS so there is no black box.
Ken Thompson smiles upon your trust.
That was supposed to be cubic. You get the idea. :-)
Barring truly revolutionary advances in silicon device fabrication, and(I'm not sufficiently up on my physics to know for sure) possibly a change in physics, sputtering a thin metallic film with the appropriate magnetic properties will always be cheaper, per square centimeter, than fabbing a complex integrated circuit.
But what will the price difference be per cub centimeter? As chips (eventually) transition to stacked designs, I'd be willing to bet that you can stack a lot more layers of silicon per unit height than you can spinning platters that allow enough room for air flow, head thickness, etc.
If open source is the future, and hardware can be made dirt cheap anywhere on the planet, how is anyone going to make any money?
I make good money designing custom software for my employer, as do something like 98% of programmers who develop in-house projects.
It appears debian repositories also need to be updated. :(
In general, you may safely assume that to be the case for any given package.
Trying to infer guilt from this (tempting though it may be) violates what most of us stand for.
I disagree. You obviously can't convict someone based on their invocation of the 5th, but you can darn well form an opinion of that person and their actions.
But that's not what's happening in our schools already; Just look at the Zero Tolerance statutes!
Oh, I hear you and I agree completely. Like so many other things done in the name of security, the downsides are a lot easier to see than any marginal advantages.
I imagine that the software is a Bayesian filter that takes in lots of seemingly unrelated factors and combines them into a score. First, yeah, I get the obvious dystopian implications - I won't argue against the awful possibilities if it were widely deployed. That said, isn't it possible that it could genuinely help some kids? Suppose those factors like increased absences and a couple of minor contacts with police indicate that Johnny is extremely likely to drop out of school. Maybe that's a good hint that someone needs to talk to Johnny and see if something correctable is going on in his life.
Read the EULA here.
As soon as Sony can present a list of people who've signed and notarized the EULA, I might be persuaded to care what their ridiculous wish-list says.
I have my own anecdote. It wasn't "just" physical therapy, except in the sense that it was physical manipulation and that it was therapeutic. I'll go to a chiropractor for back pain any day. Cancer or appendicitis? Not likely.
As long as you continue to feed your nicotine addiction, you will never be able to break yourself away from these crutches.
I am addicted to caffeine. It's not causing health issues and I love coffee, so why should I have any desire to break away from it? Substitute nicotine for caffeine; is there something fundamentally different that breaks the logic?
The argument over sex is actually more interesting. If you don't have dogmatic sexual restrictions (sex before marriage is a crime and/or draws severe social stigma that totally fucks up your life), society's morals drift. Society will then eventually stabilize at a point where you can just walk up to anyone and suggest fucking, and get it right there; sex flows freely, about as easy as hugs and handshakes.
Without dogmatic sexual restrictions, would that be a bad thing, assuming the health repercussions could be addressed?
"Chiropractic is often described as two professions masquerading as one. Unlike the distinction between podiatry (a science-based profession for foot disorders) and foot reflexology (an unscientific philosophy which posits that many disorders arise from the feet), in chiropractic the two professions attempt to live under one roof, albeit with much tension between them."
My wife's a podiatrist and sometimes deals with that. She went through pre-med undergrad, 4 years of med school, and 2 years of surgical residency. She has no belief in "alternative medicine" whatsoever, but she'll be more than happy to reconstruct your foot if you need it. Still, she has a surprising number of requests for non-medical treatment.
How many times are you going to reply to me?
As it invents the extra cachet of owning an iPad.
Et viola! I fixed it for you you.
Pro-tip: Don't use a foreign word and go out of your way to point out that you're using a foreign word (quotes, accents, etc.) unless you're really, really sure you know the foreign word.
It was some low UID account owner's speculation in a reply to me last week,
All low UIDs are liars.
Actually, since Apple are pushing for H.264 video (which they part own the patents to AFAIK)
Well, Apple and 25 other organizations, including Microsoft and Sony. Sorry if that takes some of the fun out of your speculation.
When I can get a 1TB 3.5" SATA drive [ebuyer.com] for £61.33 (approx $94.58), I'm not sure how something which is 42 times more expensive can be considered "affordable".
For you and me? It isn't. For the database guy or the NAS admin who's installing one to act as as ZFS L2 cache, it's pretty dead simple.
Photoshop vs GIMP = No contest
No kidding. Since Photoshop isn't even available on my desktop, Gimp is the clear winner.
We count babies as "born" which most countries end up counting as "stillborn," which hits a different category in the stats.
I've also wondered how the US ranks on number of immigrants (legal or illegal) coming to America to have their babies born on American soil. If a coyote smuggles an 8-month-pregnant woman in poor health into the country, and the birth has a poor outcome, does that count against us?