I assure you, if you look at cursive written by somebody that is currently 60+, their cursive is most likely very readable. If they happen to be 80+ it is probably beautiful.
My dad would've been 76 this year and his cursive really was that nice. In fact, when we had to choose the typeface for engraving his headstone, my mom hated all of them because they were much inferior to his handwriting. The mortician asked if she had a sample of his cursive and Mom gave him an old family bible or cashed check or something, and they used that to program the engraving robot. Until that slab of marble rots, you'll see his name on it in his own beautiful writing.
A few months later, my birthday comes around and all my friends start sending me happy birthday messages via Facebook! Turns out, there is / was a completely different location for the control of your birth date privacy. Not only did my friends see my birthday, but half of them had installed some kind of 'notify about your friends birthday' application so my birth date (something used commonly as security verification data) was now spread into some unknown number of 3rd party applications around the globe.
Those bastards! I can only think of a few hundred thousand people - including everyone in my family, everyone I went to school with, everyone at my job, and everyone who read the newspaper one day when my friends thought it'd be funny to take out a "happy birthday ad" - who might know that private and compromising information about me.
Listen, I'm about as unlikely to give hand out personal information as the next paranoid, but your birthday? Even I can't work up the righteous indignation to be bothered by that.
BS. Apple could label it "PREVENTS HACKERS!" and people would flock to the upgrade. I find your lack of faith in the reality distortion field to be disturbing.
Theres only so much though that Apple can do short of killing compatibility with older iPods.
Do you know this for a fact? If the security is tight and Palm is only squeaking through by finding the equivalent of buffer overflows or undocumented functions, I think Apple could very well win this one.
Not that I'm necessarily taking Apple's side here. It's just that Palm seems to have stumbled upon a particularly stupid and capricious business plan that counts on Apple falling asleep on the job. This back-and-forth only has to happen a few times before potential buyers will get scared away.
Queue iTunes 8.2.2 in about 3 days. Seriously, does Palm really think they can win this? On the other hand, I respect that they're not rolling over and dying, as they did when they replaced Graffiti with Jot and wrecked handwriting recognition for their long-time users.
Sorry about the misquote. I phrased it the way it would've been said where I grew up.
You Yankees
Take it back, Tex. I'm not from the Lone Star State, but there's no need to get nasty about it. Besides, you're acting like I don't think it's a good idea.
This guy doesn't need a defense, he just needs to reside in East Texas and he's part of this case no matter how ill placed the blame is.
Isn't Texas the place where "he needed killed" is a valid murder defense? I'm not sure that's an appropriate place to mount an offensive against the locals.
Microsoft is in the business of making money, so if everyone remembers this in dealing with them or any other profit driven company, then we'll be well prepared for this behavior. Open Source is seen by MS and others as a threat to their profits, so many avoid it.
So is my boss, but we're still pro-F/OSS. The two aren't mutually exclusive, except maybe for legacy entities like Microsoft without a significant hardware business to fall back on.
What most neuroscience appears to be missing is that the brain isn't an electrical system, but an electro-chemical system.
A thousand neuroscience PhDs read this, dropped their jaws in astonishment, and slowly realized their life's work has been spent in vain and that it's starting over time. Please break the news more gently next time you have an epiphany.
I'm still waiting on the scores of cancer cures that have been promised over the past decade. Talk is cheap.
When I was a kid a small number of decades ago, Hodgkin's lymphoma was a death sentence. Now?
Most patients who are able to be successfully treated (and thus enter remission) generally go on and live long and normal lives, due to a remission success rate of 90% to 95%.
So you have your cancer cures, at least for certain types. It's certainly not the automatic "prolonged wasting away before excruciating death" that it was a quarter century ago.
Did you forget that whole big thing about GPLv3 being incompatible with GPLv2? In fact, it would be stupid on their part to release source code to work with programs under incompatible license terms which would disallow anyone from legitimately being able to distribute it.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
I'm not aware of any legal theory that makes distributing GPLv3 software with GPLv2+ software problematic.
Like their previous driver offering, it's not a wholehearted contribution to making an open source project better, but instead just a thing to make microsoft's own services work better when people need to use open source.
WTF? Isn't that the major motivation of pretty much all corporate contributions: making a project work better with their offerings? IBM didn't release NUMA code because it made them feel all happy and rainbowish; they released it so Linux would be more attractive on their hardware. Yeah, MS gave out code that benefits them, just like everyone else. Provide a counterexample or quit harping on this.
I don't even like MS, but don't invent reasons to dislike them!
until now the USA has like almost 20 little aircraft carriers about the same size as the 2 the British operate
Note: an LPD has an entirely different mission from a carrier. The Nimitz etc. is designed to transport air power anywhere in the world. LPDs and other similar classes are basically troop transports. If you need to provide air superiority, an LPD would be nearly worthless as they don't really carry anything more offensive than a few Harriers. If you need to deliver a few thousand Marines to a beach somewhere, a carrier would be nearly worthless as they're not rigged for transporting that many passengers or hosting the landing craft to put them on the beach.
Not that I don't agree with you about everything else - just nitpicking.
Seriously, please don't write any more single-use ebook readers! I guarantee they won't be as good as Stanza or the Kindle App, and I don't want to have my library spread across 100 little wonky apps. This is a solved problem. Quit reinventing the solution. Please?
I believe Jefferson was a Deist and believe they came, ultimately, from God, didn't he?
According to said Declaration:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
So yeah, at least in that one document, Jefferson held that rights were divinely endowed by God. However, if he'd said "they are endowed by their Creator with two legs and two arms (on average)", I could still agree with his conclusion even if I disagreed with the source. FWIW, I do happen to agree with the source in this case, but that's unimportant to me. The important part is that we do possess these inherent rights, even if atheists might chalk them up to the virtue of our humanity rather than the grant of a Creator.
Personally I evaluate the desirability of an action based on whether or not it is efficient or inefficient in creating happiness for myself and my friends
Please live as far away from me as possible, unless you count humanity in toto as your friends. Basically, your own happiness may cause a whole awful lot of unhappiness for others ("whee, what fun to kill his cat!"), making that a rather sociopathic calculus.
I'll be more impressed when MS, for example, helps with the SAMBA project. Or at least, doesn't actively screw up with such interop projects from the FOSS community. No GPL code required, just give people decent, up-to-date, open specs; and no patents bullshit.
You sound like some of the parents from my kids' sports teams. It's not good enough that they do one thing right. No, they have to do everything right, every time, before they'll ever get your praise. I don't like MS any more than the next Slashdotter and don't own any of their stuff aside from a couple of trackballs, but it's OK to encourage them whenever they do something right. Releasing code under our chosen license is one of those things we want them to keep doing, you know?
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Thanks! We're all pretty proud of it.
I assure you, if you look at cursive written by somebody that is currently 60+, their cursive is most likely very readable. If they happen to be 80+ it is probably beautiful.
My dad would've been 76 this year and his cursive really was that nice. In fact, when we had to choose the typeface for engraving his headstone, my mom hated all of them because they were much inferior to his handwriting. The mortician asked if she had a sample of his cursive and Mom gave him an old family bible or cashed check or something, and they used that to program the engraving robot. Until that slab of marble rots, you'll see his name on it in his own beautiful writing.
Also I am exactly 26 years old.
And now you're 26+delta. So much for that glorious instant of certifiable perfection.
A few months later, my birthday comes around and all my friends start sending me happy birthday messages via Facebook! Turns out, there is / was a completely different location for the control of your birth date privacy. Not only did my friends see my birthday, but half of them had installed some kind of 'notify about your friends birthday' application so my birth date (something used commonly as security verification data) was now spread into some unknown number of 3rd party applications around the globe.
Those bastards! I can only think of a few hundred thousand people - including everyone in my family, everyone I went to school with, everyone at my job, and everyone who read the newspaper one day when my friends thought it'd be funny to take out a "happy birthday ad" - who might know that private and compromising information about me.
Listen, I'm about as unlikely to give hand out personal information as the next paranoid, but your birthday? Even I can't work up the righteous indignation to be bothered by that.
(I grew up in Springfield, MO, about 35 miles north of your northern border.)
Remember that updates to itunes annoys people.
BS. Apple could label it "PREVENTS HACKERS!" and people would flock to the upgrade. I find your lack of faith in the reality distortion field to be disturbing.
Theres only so much though that Apple can do short of killing compatibility with older iPods.
Do you know this for a fact? If the security is tight and Palm is only squeaking through by finding the equivalent of buffer overflows or undocumented functions, I think Apple could very well win this one.
Not that I'm necessarily taking Apple's side here. It's just that Palm seems to have stumbled upon a particularly stupid and capricious business plan that counts on Apple falling asleep on the job. This back-and-forth only has to happen a few times before potential buyers will get scared away.
Queue iTunes 8.2.2 in about 3 days. Seriously, does Palm really think they can win this? On the other hand, I respect that they're not rolling over and dying, as they did when they replaced Graffiti with Jot and wrecked handwriting recognition for their long-time users.
Sorry about the misquote. I phrased it the way it would've been said where I grew up.
You Yankees
Take it back, Tex. I'm not from the Lone Star State, but there's no need to get nasty about it. Besides, you're acting like I don't think it's a good idea.
is that it's losing it's niche.
Yep. C++ doesn't have the bare-metal performance of C or the elegance of a modern HLL. Where is its sweet spot?
This guy doesn't need a defense, he just needs to reside in East Texas and he's part of this case no matter how ill placed the blame is.
Isn't Texas the place where "he needed killed" is a valid murder defense? I'm not sure that's an appropriate place to mount an offensive against the locals.
Microsoft is in the business of making money, so if everyone remembers this in dealing with them or any other profit driven company, then we'll be well prepared for this behavior. Open Source is seen by MS and others as a threat to their profits, so many avoid it.
So is my boss, but we're still pro-F/OSS. The two aren't mutually exclusive, except maybe for legacy entities like Microsoft without a significant hardware business to fall back on.
What most neuroscience appears to be missing is that the brain isn't an electrical system, but an electro-chemical system.
A thousand neuroscience PhDs read this, dropped their jaws in astonishment, and slowly realized their life's work has been spent in vain and that it's starting over time. Please break the news more gently next time you have an epiphany.
I'm still waiting on the scores of cancer cures that have been promised over the past decade. Talk is cheap.
When I was a kid a small number of decades ago, Hodgkin's lymphoma was a death sentence. Now?
So you have your cancer cures, at least for certain types. It's certainly not the automatic "prolonged wasting away before excruciating death" that it was a quarter century ago.
But, it's only downloaded once unless he's completely disabled caching or clears it too regularly.
Did you forget that whole big thing about GPLv3 being incompatible with GPLv2? In fact, it would be stupid on their part to release source code to work with programs under incompatible license terms which would disallow anyone from legitimately being able to distribute it.
Except that's not how Moodle is licensed:
I'm not aware of any legal theory that makes distributing GPLv3 software with GPLv2+ software problematic.
Like their previous driver offering, it's not a wholehearted contribution to making an open source project better, but instead just a thing to make microsoft's own services work better when people need to use open source.
WTF? Isn't that the major motivation of pretty much all corporate contributions: making a project work better with their offerings? IBM didn't release NUMA code because it made them feel all happy and rainbowish; they released it so Linux would be more attractive on their hardware. Yeah, MS gave out code that benefits them, just like everyone else. Provide a counterexample or quit harping on this.
I don't even like MS, but don't invent reasons to dislike them!
until now the USA has like almost 20 little aircraft carriers about the same size as the 2 the British operate
Note: an LPD has an entirely different mission from a carrier. The Nimitz etc. is designed to transport air power anywhere in the world. LPDs and other similar classes are basically troop transports. If you need to provide air superiority, an LPD would be nearly worthless as they don't really carry anything more offensive than a few Harriers. If you need to deliver a few thousand Marines to a beach somewhere, a carrier would be nearly worthless as they're not rigged for transporting that many passengers or hosting the landing craft to put them on the beach.
Not that I don't agree with you about everything else - just nitpicking.
It's a [...] Ebook. Why the hell do you need javascript?
It because there are no other ebook readers for iPhone, especially ones with stores that could sell his book.
Seriously, please don't write any more single-use ebook readers! I guarantee they won't be as good as Stanza or the Kindle App, and I don't want to have my library spread across 100 little wonky apps. This is a solved problem. Quit reinventing the solution. Please?
I believe Jefferson was a Deist and believe they came, ultimately, from God, didn't he?
According to said Declaration:
So yeah, at least in that one document, Jefferson held that rights were divinely endowed by God. However, if he'd said "they are endowed by their Creator with two legs and two arms (on average)", I could still agree with his conclusion even if I disagreed with the source. FWIW, I do happen to agree with the source in this case, but that's unimportant to me. The important part is that we do possess these inherent rights, even if atheists might chalk them up to the virtue of our humanity rather than the grant of a Creator.
Personally I evaluate the desirability of an action based on whether or not it is efficient or inefficient in creating happiness for myself and my friends
Please live as far away from me as possible, unless you count humanity in toto as your friends. Basically, your own happiness may cause a whole awful lot of unhappiness for others ("whee, what fun to kill his cat!"), making that a rather sociopathic calculus.
That is the stupidest thing I will have read this month.
In other words, "what I do is hard, but I don't understand what you do so it must be easy."
And again, none of that matters one whit to the market.
I'll be more impressed when MS, for example, helps with the SAMBA project. Or at least, doesn't actively screw up with such interop projects from the FOSS community. No GPL code required, just give people decent, up-to-date, open specs; and no patents bullshit.
You sound like some of the parents from my kids' sports teams. It's not good enough that they do one thing right. No, they have to do everything right, every time, before they'll ever get your praise. I don't like MS any more than the next Slashdotter and don't own any of their stuff aside from a couple of trackballs, but it's OK to encourage them whenever they do something right. Releasing code under our chosen license is one of those things we want them to keep doing, you know?
Sam, forget the naysayers. Seriously, welcome to the party!