Exactly. Property value has ALWAYS increased near population centers. It has ever been so, and will continue to be.
Chicago is an exception. Detroit is an exception. New Orleans is an exception. Dayton is an exception. Scranton, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Gary, Cleveland, Youngstown, St. Louis, these are all exceptions. Why? Because the cities themselves have a (shrinking) population, and the local economy is wrecked. Nobody likes to live near a slum city.
It's not a privilege, it's a limited right, as defined by the lease contract and local laws. A privilege can be arbitrarily revoked, not a limited right, which can be revoked only for cause.
You obviously didn't read the rest of the article, where three different experts compared the guys actual fingerprints (not a hash) when he was 17 to the actual fingerprint (not a hash) on the plastic bag, and all declared it a match. It wasn't, and Spain said as much. And Spain was right - they did not match.
You seem to have ignored that it's not like it's an either-or choice. Low frequency radar for detecting an intruder, high frequency for targeting once you know someone is in the area. Sure, you might have time to get a radar-seeking missile off, but they've just killed your aircraft - and the aircraft costs a heck of a lot more.
I would just say that killing is easy, dying is easy, living is the big toughie.
There was one sig that said something like "If I had to choose between betraying my country or my friend, I hope I have the courage to betray my country." I'd absolutely hate to be in that position... then again, if what the country is doing is illegal and immoral, the choice gets much easier.
It was all more fun back then because everything was NEW. It was AWESOME. Today... meh.
But to your point about what the world would look like without Stalman...
[rant]
1. No GPL. So Linus would have released his software under his original license, which was free for home users, paid for commercial users.
2. No GPL hassles. Anyone who wanted truly free software would build upon the *BSDs.
3. Given a choice between (1) and (2), businesses would all have opted for (2), because they can actually build upon it to make products users will pay for, like Apple (OSX) and Sony (Playstation 3/4) do.
4. Anyone else could also build upon the *BSDs, and either release the source or sell the combined software, or whatever combo they wished to do.
The printer driver problem that Stalman ran into was not really all that big a deal. Someone gives you state of the art equipment to play around with (a cutting-edge laser printer) and they would naturally expect that if there were problems, you would tell them, they would fix them, and improve their product. No just give you and everyone else the source code to that other companies can use it without any sweat equity.
Stalman's snit shows just how juvenile his thinking really is. He took personal offense because they exercised their freedom to not give the source. He doesn't want freedom - he wants control under his terms. F*ck you, Stalman.
The same people who decry closed software don't object to closed software for games, or for making closed software when they can make a buck out of it (apps apps apps). Stalman thinks everyone should live like he did, living in his university office, because making profit from working on/selling proprietary software is somehow evil...
Until around 1998, my office at MIT was also my residence. I was even registered to vote from there.
I was just kind of curious. I can be "strange/non-conformist". I don't do deodorant. Don't do telephones (e.g. i rarely carry my cellphone and only use my landline for recruiters to spam my phone). I tried natural toothpaste because I don't like the effects of fluoride.
I don't feel so bad. Richard Stallman doesn't look like he bathes, shaves, plus he lived out of the MIT lab. Some people are stranger than me.
Bot Berlin
July 15th, 2008 2:28pm
Yes, and Charles Manson kills people -- that doesn't mean we want to compare ourselves to him.
SaveTheHubble
July 15th, 2008 2:29pm
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
s/Jobs/Richard Stalman/g
The GPL actually helps companies like Microsoft maintain their preeminent position because you can't make any real money selling GPL software, so development lags, there's no promotional budget, manufacturers don't care if your software runs on their devices or not. So guess who gets market and mindshare, even for open source software? It's why the free screen readers on Linux are crap compared to this free windows one. It's why decent text-to-speech and speech-to-text on Android actually works - Google is making their profit by getting their apps in front of everyone. If they had tried to sell android, they would have been up against the entrenched players - sun, microsoft, nokia, rim
Chip and motherboard layout is already almost exclusively done by computers.
Umm, no.
Do you really believe that someone sat down and laid out each of the individual gates and wire interconnects of a modern cpu, or even a stick of ram? Even if they did one a second, they would have had to start before the first moon walk.
Worse - what does it matter what design language the designer tools are running? You can't tell just by looking at the finished product, so the article is full of sh*t.
Remember, the government can now do stuff and order you not to talk about it. It's very easy to envision them going to a tech and saying "open that wiring closet" knowing that if anyone hears about it, he's going to Leavenworth.
Nope. If you read the article, you would have known that they compared his fingerprint when he was 17 years old (not a hash value) with the fingerprint (not the hash value) on the plastic bag.
Also, since fingerprints form in only certain ways (for example, Jesus' face or IBMs trademark or all horizontal lines will never appear by nature), the set of possible fingerprints may be high, but it is not "astronomical." Statistically, there has to be a dupe somewhere. It's the same as the odds of two people in a room having the same birthday are 50:50 with only 23 people, and 99.9% with only 70 people, even though there are 365 days in most years.
Given that defense+veteran's benefits is almost 2/3 of federal spending, maybe it's better to just dial it back a bit? Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex, and he was right.
The US fingerprint experts had a copy of the fingerprint in spain and examined it and three experts swore it was a match. Funny how spain looked it it and said no match. Fingerprint matching is subject to human error, same as dna matching.
Push all apps you don't actually need to the cloud (delete).
"Storing your apps in the cloud" and deleting the local copy is stupid. It takes time and energy to upload them, and more to download them each time you want to use them.
Stalman was talking about software. You' can change your system image on your phone. You can even make one yourself if you want to. You can make your own apps that work the way you want. And for those who aren't so fanatical, they're free to stick with stock system images that come with that all-important support (even if it's less than 2 years in most cases - it's not like it stops working after support ends).
If everyone did it Stalman's way, small cheap and smart smartphones wouldn't exist. "Everything should be open" - well, no manufacturer is going to put the big bucks into r & d making a product that anyone else can just legally knock off. Thus there would be no economies of scale, and too many hardware and software incompatibilities.
Them's the facts. Or do you want to go back to the time of home-brew computers, and a slew of different architectures and operating systems with software only available on any one particular system in a hit or miss fashion? It was fun, but it was also a bit of a PITA.
Now the app won't be running except when it's in the foreground. You won't chew through your cellular data plan, and you won't get an alert when somebody in Oz posts while you're asleep.
Cell data will still work for the app when it's in the foreground, so problem solved.
Oh right - it's from hothardware.com. That explains everything... including the juvenile attempt to sound more intelligent than they are. Gotta keep those free review units coming in...
The FBI has refused several requests to release information about fingerprints that are identical. There is no scientific proof that fingerprints can't be identical. Also, fingerprints that the FBI says are a match, aren't.
The ww2-type radar is obviously a tactical advantage - the russians are putting them all over the place. Never said it would be used in the air. A stand-off fighter would be useful for spotting stealth fighters from the side, top, or bottom, since you can't make stealth work equally well in all directions. As for the lower-frequency radars on the ground, even if they can't immediately tell exactly where you are, they do give warning - and when you know where to look, you know where to position your assets so they can be in a position to launch an air-to-air missile up your tailpipe.
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Exactly. Property value has ALWAYS increased near population centers. It has ever been so, and will continue to be.
Chicago is an exception. Detroit is an exception. New Orleans is an exception. Dayton is an exception. Scranton, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Gary, Cleveland, Youngstown, St. Louis, these are all exceptions. Why? Because the cities themselves have a (shrinking) population, and the local economy is wrecked. Nobody likes to live near a slum city.
During the foreclosure crisis, banks were issuing tons of forged documents.
It's not a privilege, it's a limited right, as defined by the lease contract and local laws. A privilege can be arbitrarily revoked, not a limited right, which can be revoked only for cause.
I'm a damn mathematician you ignorant fucktard but I've got more culture in my fucking dick than you've every seen.
It's not culture, it's smegma. Now quick, go get the smeg hammer and start cleaning up your dick "culture," smeghead. :-)
You obviously didn't read the rest of the article, where three different experts compared the guys actual fingerprints (not a hash) when he was 17 to the actual fingerprint (not a hash) on the plastic bag, and all declared it a match. It wasn't, and Spain said as much. And Spain was right - they did not match.
You seem to have ignored that it's not like it's an either-or choice. Low frequency radar for detecting an intruder, high frequency for targeting once you know someone is in the area. Sure, you might have time to get a radar-seeking missile off, but they've just killed your aircraft - and the aircraft costs a heck of a lot more.
I would just say that killing is easy, dying is easy, living is the big toughie.
There was one sig that said something like "If I had to choose between betraying my country or my friend, I hope I have the courage to betray my country." I'd absolutely hate to be in that position ... then again, if what the country is doing is illegal and immoral, the choice gets much easier.
It was all more fun back then because everything was NEW. It was AWESOME. Today ... meh.
But to your point about what the world would look like without Stalman ...
[rant]
1. No GPL. So Linus would have released his software under his original license, which was free for home users, paid for commercial users.
2. No GPL hassles. Anyone who wanted truly free software would build upon the *BSDs.
3. Given a choice between (1) and (2), businesses would all have opted for (2), because they can actually build upon it to make products users will pay for, like Apple (OSX) and Sony (Playstation 3/4) do.
4. Anyone else could also build upon the *BSDs, and either release the source or sell the combined software, or whatever combo they wished to do.
The printer driver problem that Stalman ran into was not really all that big a deal. Someone gives you state of the art equipment to play around with (a cutting-edge laser printer) and they would naturally expect that if there were problems, you would tell them, they would fix them, and improve their product. No just give you and everyone else the source code to that other companies can use it without any sweat equity.
Stalman's snit shows just how juvenile his thinking really is. He took personal offense because they exercised their freedom to not give the source. He doesn't want freedom - he wants control under his terms. F*ck you, Stalman.
The same people who decry closed software don't object to closed software for games, or for making closed software when they can make a buck out of it (apps apps apps). Stalman thinks everyone should live like he did, living in his university office, because making profit from working on/selling proprietary software is somehow evil ...
Until around 1998, my office at MIT was also my residence. I was even registered to vote from there.
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I was just kind of curious. I can be "strange/non-conformist". I don't do deodorant. Don't do telephones (e.g. i rarely carry my cellphone and only use my landline for recruiters to spam my phone). I tried natural toothpaste because I don't like the effects of fluoride.
I don't feel so bad. Richard Stallman doesn't look like he bathes, shaves, plus he lived out of the MIT lab. Some people are stranger than me.
Bot Berlin
July 15th, 2008 2:28pm
Yes, and Charles Manson kills people -- that doesn't mean we want to compare ourselves to him.
SaveTheHubble
July 15th, 2008 2:29pm
The guy is an asshole. Remember when he wrote this:
As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing.
s/Jobs/Richard Stalman/g
The GPL actually helps companies like Microsoft maintain their preeminent position because you can't make any real money selling GPL software, so development lags, there's no promotional budget, manufacturers don't care if your software runs on their devices or not. So guess who gets market and mindshare, even for open source software? It's why the free screen readers on Linux are crap compared to this free windows one. It's why decent text-to-speech and speech-to-text on Android actually works - Google is making their profit by getting their apps in front of everyone. If they had tried to sell android, they would have been up against the entrenched players - sun, microsoft, nokia, rim
Most people don't want to spend the next decade in Russia.
Chip and motherboard layout is already almost exclusively done by computers.
Umm, no.
Do you really believe that someone sat down and laid out each of the individual gates and wire interconnects of a modern cpu, or even a stick of ram? Even if they did one a second, they would have had to start before the first moon walk.
Worse - what does it matter what design language the designer tools are running? You can't tell just by looking at the finished product, so the article is full of sh*t.
Hilltops make great places. Ask the Russians - they're deploying them with their allies in Syria.
Remember, the government can now do stuff and order you not to talk about it. It's very easy to envision them going to a tech and saying "open that wiring closet" knowing that if anyone hears about it, he's going to Leavenworth.
Nope. If you read the article, you would have known that they compared his fingerprint when he was 17 years old (not a hash value) with the fingerprint (not the hash value) on the plastic bag.
Also, since fingerprints form in only certain ways (for example, Jesus' face or IBMs trademark or all horizontal lines will never appear by nature), the set of possible fingerprints may be high, but it is not "astronomical." Statistically, there has to be a dupe somewhere. It's the same as the odds of two people in a room having the same birthday are 50:50 with only 23 people, and 99.9% with only 70 people, even though there are 365 days in most years.
Given that defense+veteran's benefits is almost 2/3 of federal spending, maybe it's better to just dial it back a bit? Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex, and he was right.
The US fingerprint experts had a copy of the fingerprint in spain and examined it and three experts swore it was a match. Funny how spain looked it it and said no match. Fingerprint matching is subject to human error, same as dna matching.
Push all apps you don't actually need to the cloud (delete).
"Storing your apps in the cloud" and deleting the local copy is stupid. It takes time and energy to upload them, and more to download them each time you want to use them.
Horsesh*t. Or rather, Stalman Foot-cheese.
Stalman was talking about software. You' can change your system image on your phone. You can even make one yourself if you want to. You can make your own apps that work the way you want. And for those who aren't so fanatical, they're free to stick with stock system images that come with that all-important support (even if it's less than 2 years in most cases - it's not like it stops working after support ends).
If everyone did it Stalman's way, small cheap and smart smartphones wouldn't exist. "Everything should be open" - well, no manufacturer is going to put the big bucks into r & d making a product that anyone else can just legally knock off. Thus there would be no economies of scale, and too many hardware and software incompatibilities.
Them's the facts. Or do you want to go back to the time of home-brew computers, and a slew of different architectures and operating systems with software only available on any one particular system in a hit or miss fashion? It was fun, but it was also a bit of a PITA.
On Androd:
Now the app won't be running except when it's in the foreground. You won't chew through your cellular data plan, and you won't get an alert when somebody in Oz posts while you're asleep.
Cell data will still work for the app when it's in the foreground, so problem solved.
Oh right - it's from hothardware.com. That explains everything ... including the juvenile attempt to sound more intelligent than they are. Gotta keep those free review units coming in ...
Seriously ... words without meaning ....
and perhaps a light rebuffing of the phone's design language.
The FBI has refused several requests to release information about fingerprints that are identical. There is no scientific proof that fingerprints can't be identical. Also, fingerprints that the FBI says are a match, aren't.
The ww2-type radar is obviously a tactical advantage - the russians are putting them all over the place. Never said it would be used in the air. A stand-off fighter would be useful for spotting stealth fighters from the side, top, or bottom, since you can't make stealth work equally well in all directions. As for the lower-frequency radars on the ground, even if they can't immediately tell exactly where you are, they do give warning - and when you know where to look, you know where to position your assets so they can be in a position to launch an air-to-air missile up your tailpipe.
Most of them don't need to. Not enough real demand any more to provide an incentive.
Rossum's Universal Robots, aka R.U.R.