Okay. Umm.. Who the fuck cares if students show up to class or not. At university we are old enough to decide if class is a waste of time or not. I skipped tons of classes during my undergrad degree and this enabled me to actually assignments that I wouldn't have otherwise had time for.
Agreed. If your students can pass your class without showing up, you're wasting their time and you should figure out how to make your classes more valuable to them. They should be coming to class because if they don't they'll have a difficult time passing the final exam, not because you're tracking their cell phone.
Napster definitely gets my vote too. Napster is what introduced the masses to the concept of obtaining music by downloading it from other people over the Internet. Previously, people copied music by exchanging physical media with their friends, but Napster made it possible to browse the music collection of a complete stranger. Obviously some of us had been downloading music from newsgroups or bulletin boards or IRC channels or whatever, but Napster made music piracy accessible and mainstream.
Napster changed people's expectations, opening their eyes to how the world could work if only the media companies would allow it. It paved the way for the iTunes Music Store, as well as P2P protocols like BitTorrent.
That definition still includes a good proportion of American Christians, since one of the larger (and certainly fastest-growing) sects of Christianity in the US is Pentecostalism, run by pop-star-like, very wealthy and often TV-show-having leaders of megachurches.
And an even better proportion of American Christians finds those guys offensive.
Even more interestingly is that inter-church issues are not taken to court, in fact, to take an internal quarrel to court is grounds from a church ban. They have their own "ethics committees" that see such cases, but they generally follow their own laws and not those of the locale they're in.
This is actually not ridiculous at all; the Bible actually says Christians should do this (1 Corinthians 6:1-11). Christianity is based on love, and it should be possible for two Christians who both love God and love each other to resolve a dispute fairly without involving the courts. Jesus Christ even gave simple instructions (Matthew 18:15-17):
"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses [Deuteronomy 19:15].' If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector [think Sheriff of Nottingham, not the IRS]."
Note that Jesus was speaking to his disciples, who had a Jewish background; he quotes Jewish law from the Torah. Paul was writing to the Christian church at Corinth. This does not apply to any conflict with someone who doesn't belong to the same religion that you do; the courts are an appropriate venue for those disputes.
Scientologists are crazy, but not for this specific reason.:-)
odds are that if someone has a collection of images of child abuse (drawn or not) then they're a sex offender or a potential sex offender.
And what if someone has a large collection of Japanese comic books, and a few of them happen to contain drawn images of child abuse? What does that make them?
What if someone has a large collection of novels, and some of them happen to describe child abuse?
...and unless you have some pretty neat features that can beat Google...
That's exactly the point. They believe they DO have some pretty neat features that can beat Google. Or they will (Bing is still in development and not yet available to the public).
I'm a little confused, but as best I can figure out:
Microsoft is developing a new search engine that will replace Live Search. The new engine was going to be called Kumo, but they've decided to call it Bing instead. It's still in development and not yet available to the public, but eventually it will be online at bing.com. Presumably, once Bing launches, live.com will redirect there. The search field on msn.com (which most IE users have set as their home page) will redirect there too.
Since the new engine isn't available to the public and most people weren't aware that it was going to be called Kumo, this rebranding is a complete non-story.
The frightening thing about this is, a court of law just got to decide that a comic book doesn't have serious literary or artistic value.
He plead guilty. The courts didn't decide anything. He really should have stuck with it, as this law is clearly unconstitutional and needs to be overturned by the courts. It's a real shame that prosecutors are able to use trumped up charges as a bludgeon to dissuade people from exercising their constitutional right to a trial. Plea bargaining ought to be abolished.
Ah, quite right, thanks for the correction.
A court of law could have decided this, and there's a good chance they might have decided against him and his punishment would have been even worse than this. On top of that he would have had to spend massive piles of money he doesn't have, to pay for his defense, regardless of whether he won or lost.
If NASA can get internet, and NASA communicates with the space station... What era is NASA living in, if the space station can't get an internet connection. The internet solves all problems, especially missing codec problems.
The Space Station can get Internet access. They're not on the Space Station. They're on a shuttle, next to the Hubble Telescope.
The frightening thing about this is, a court of law just got to decide that a comic book doesn't have serious literary or artistic value. The comic book in question is perfectly legal in other countries (it's available for sale in Japan). As far as we know, this guy has never molested children, doesn't have any desire to molest children, and finds the practice despicable. If he's a "prolific collector", one can assume that his primary reason for collecting manga is precisely the literary and artistic value that the court just ruled it doesn't have.
Because of this decision, a man who (as far as we know) isn't guilty of any other crime will now be branded a sex offender for life. In addition to sitting in jail until he reaches retirement age, when he gets out he'll have to find a place to live that isn't too close to a school, and he'll have to warn all his neighbors that it's not safe for him to be around their children.
Well, remember that the pixel is created by turning on the laser while the mirror is passing by the point where the reflected beam would hit the target. If you leave the laser on just a little while longer, your pixels will be larger, in one dimension. In other words, instead of a grid of points: . . . . . . . . . . .. you have a grid of lines: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The vertical gaps would be an issue at long distances, but there's no reason the horizontal gaps should be particularly large.
Of course the effective range would be limited by the brightness of the lasers. If your screen is far enough away that you can't see the reflection of the laser beams coming back to you, then it doesn't matter how big the pixels are.
I'd prefer that the businesses pay for their share of the nation's infrastructure via taxes. Sure, they're going to pass that cost along to me in their prices, but then when I'm spending money, I'm making a more informed decision, because what I'm being charged better reflects the true cost of the production of those goods/services.
Taxes on specific things the business does are also useful. For example, shipping companies are taxed based on the weight of the trucks they drive on the freeway; this helps pay for road maintenance. This increases the cost of goods that have to be shipped a long distance (in addition to the cost of fuel, drivers, and truck maintenance). If this affects the price I pay for these goods, it creates a financial incentive for me to buy goods that are produced locally over goods that have to be shipped across the country. This is a good thing for the economy, because without the incentive to buy locally-produced goods, a lot of money would be wasted on all the costs associated with transportation (costs to the businesses that I already mentioned, and costs to the government for more road maintenance).
In addition to that, the government can manipulate taxes in order to promote changes that benefit society. For example, in addition to the costs listed above, transportation has a significant environmental impact, so the government may want to increases the taxes on transportation to reflect this. By increasing the cost of transportation, everyone is encouraged to find ways to use transportation less, which reduces the environmental impact.
Sounds like it's time for a new third party vendor. I heard about Silicon Mechanics at OSCon; I don't know if they have what your clients need at prices they'll be happy with, but they'll never push Windows!
(I have no experience with the company, they just sound good to me.)
I don't think === is the behavior he's looking for. He wants to compare things that are not identical types, but have the rules make sense (to him, based on the behavior of other languages he's familiar with). His equals() method might use the === operator internally, in fact.
If they shouldn't be going to jail, then the law should be changed to make their actions legal. If that's how you feel, lobby Congress. In the mean time, the law should be enforced.
I once saw a black man complain about being called "African-American"; he was a citizen of the UK whose family had immigrated from Jamaica or Haiti or something. He has no objection to being called "black", but considers himself neither African nor American, and finds that label offensive.
If Google, an open source project, sends out all sorts of data that you might consider an invasion of privacy, is the open source community free to fork it?
Chrome is not an open source project. Chromium is an open source project, and yes, you're free to fork that, as per the terms of the licenses.
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Okay. Umm.. Who the fuck cares if students show up to class or not. At university we are old enough to decide if class is a waste of time or not. I skipped tons of classes during my undergrad degree and this enabled me to actually assignments that I wouldn't have otherwise had time for.
Agreed. If your students can pass your class without showing up, you're wasting their time and you should figure out how to make your classes more valuable to them. They should be coming to class because if they don't they'll have a difficult time passing the final exam, not because you're tracking their cell phone.
Napster definitely gets my vote too. Napster is what introduced the masses to the concept of obtaining music by downloading it from other people over the Internet. Previously, people copied music by exchanging physical media with their friends, but Napster made it possible to browse the music collection of a complete stranger. Obviously some of us had been downloading music from newsgroups or bulletin boards or IRC channels or whatever, but Napster made music piracy accessible and mainstream.
Napster changed people's expectations, opening their eyes to how the world could work if only the media companies would allow it. It paved the way for the iTunes Music Store, as well as P2P protocols like BitTorrent.
That definition still includes a good proportion of American Christians, since one of the larger (and certainly fastest-growing) sects of Christianity in the US is Pentecostalism, run by pop-star-like, very wealthy and often TV-show-having leaders of megachurches.
And an even better proportion of American Christians finds those guys offensive.
Even more interestingly is that inter-church issues are not taken to court, in fact, to take an internal quarrel to court is grounds from a church ban. They have their own "ethics committees" that see such cases, but they generally follow their own laws and not those of the locale they're in.
This is actually not ridiculous at all; the Bible actually says Christians should do this (1 Corinthians 6:1-11). Christianity is based on love, and it should be possible for two Christians who both love God and love each other to resolve a dispute fairly without involving the courts. Jesus Christ even gave simple instructions (Matthew 18:15-17):
Note that Jesus was speaking to his disciples, who had a Jewish background; he quotes Jewish law from the Torah. Paul was writing to the Christian church at Corinth. This does not apply to any conflict with someone who doesn't belong to the same religion that you do; the courts are an appropriate venue for those disputes.
Scientologists are crazy, but not for this specific reason. :-)
or a potential sex offender.
In America, we don't prosecute you if you *might* do something. If you feel that way, please, leave our country.
That's true, but we do lock you up without prosecuting you.
odds are that if someone has a collection of images of child abuse (drawn or not) then they're a sex offender or a potential sex offender.
And what if someone has a large collection of Japanese comic books, and a few of them happen to contain drawn images of child abuse? What does that make them?
What if someone has a large collection of novels, and some of them happen to describe child abuse?
...and unless you have some pretty neat features that can beat Google...
That's exactly the point. They believe they DO have some pretty neat features that can beat Google. Or they will (Bing is still in development and not yet available to the public).
I'm a little confused, but as best I can figure out:
Microsoft is developing a new search engine that will replace Live Search. The new engine was going to be called Kumo, but they've decided to call it Bing instead. It's still in development and not yet available to the public, but eventually it will be online at bing.com. Presumably, once Bing launches, live.com will redirect there. The search field on msn.com (which most IE users have set as their home page) will redirect there too.
Since the new engine isn't available to the public and most people weren't aware that it was going to be called Kumo, this rebranding is a complete non-story.
The frightening thing about this is, a court of law just got to decide that a comic book doesn't have serious literary or artistic value.
He plead guilty. The courts didn't decide anything. He really should have stuck with it, as this law is clearly unconstitutional and needs to be overturned by the courts. It's a real shame that prosecutors are able to use trumped up charges as a bludgeon to dissuade people from exercising their constitutional right to a trial. Plea bargaining ought to be abolished.
Ah, quite right, thanks for the correction.
A court of law could have decided this, and there's a good chance they might have decided against him and his punishment would have been even worse than this. On top of that he would have had to spend massive piles of money he doesn't have, to pay for his defense, regardless of whether he won or lost.
If NASA can get internet, and NASA communicates with the space station... What era is NASA living in, if the space station can't get an internet connection. The internet solves all problems, especially missing codec problems.
The Space Station can get Internet access. They're not on the Space Station. They're on a shuttle, next to the Hubble Telescope.
Astronauts must go through some seriously painful training if they can spend that much time on the phone with IT
Well, what else are they going to do, take a walk?
Locked in a small room without Internet access.
I liked the new AJAX comment form, but then they broke it. It's still functional, but the CSS is horked now.
The frightening thing about this is, a court of law just got to decide that a comic book doesn't have serious literary or artistic value. The comic book in question is perfectly legal in other countries (it's available for sale in Japan). As far as we know, this guy has never molested children, doesn't have any desire to molest children, and finds the practice despicable. If he's a "prolific collector", one can assume that his primary reason for collecting manga is precisely the literary and artistic value that the court just ruled it doesn't have.
Because of this decision, a man who (as far as we know) isn't guilty of any other crime will now be branded a sex offender for life. In addition to sitting in jail until he reaches retirement age, when he gets out he'll have to find a place to live that isn't too close to a school, and he'll have to warn all his neighbors that it's not safe for him to be around their children.
Well, remember that the pixel is created by turning on the laser while the mirror is passing by the point where the reflected beam would hit the target. If you leave the laser on just a little while longer, your pixels will be larger, in one dimension. In other words, instead of a grid of points: .
. . . .
. . . .
. . .
you have a grid of lines:
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
The vertical gaps would be an issue at long distances, but there's no reason the horizontal gaps should be particularly large.
Of course the effective range would be limited by the brightness of the lasers. If your screen is far enough away that you can't see the reflection of the laser beams coming back to you, then it doesn't matter how big the pixels are.
Could this be one of the big iPhone announcements to come from WWDC?
Yes, it could be.
It's also possible that Apple won't mention anything about this. Next question?
I'd prefer that the businesses pay for their share of the nation's infrastructure via taxes. Sure, they're going to pass that cost along to me in their prices, but then when I'm spending money, I'm making a more informed decision, because what I'm being charged better reflects the true cost of the production of those goods/services.
Taxes on specific things the business does are also useful. For example, shipping companies are taxed based on the weight of the trucks they drive on the freeway; this helps pay for road maintenance. This increases the cost of goods that have to be shipped a long distance (in addition to the cost of fuel, drivers, and truck maintenance). If this affects the price I pay for these goods, it creates a financial incentive for me to buy goods that are produced locally over goods that have to be shipped across the country. This is a good thing for the economy, because without the incentive to buy locally-produced goods, a lot of money would be wasted on all the costs associated with transportation (costs to the businesses that I already mentioned, and costs to the government for more road maintenance).
In addition to that, the government can manipulate taxes in order to promote changes that benefit society. For example, in addition to the costs listed above, transportation has a significant environmental impact, so the government may want to increases the taxes on transportation to reflect this. By increasing the cost of transportation, everyone is encouraged to find ways to use transportation less, which reduces the environmental impact.
Sounds like it's time for a new third party vendor. I heard about Silicon Mechanics at OSCon; I don't know if they have what your clients need at prices they'll be happy with, but they'll never push Windows!
(I have no experience with the company, they just sound good to me.)
I don't think === is the behavior he's looking for. He wants to compare things that are not identical types, but have the rules make sense (to him, based on the behavior of other languages he's familiar with). His equals() method might use the === operator internally, in fact.
Percussionists know the usefulness of towels. We use exclusively black towels because they look better on stage, but they can be used for:
If they shouldn't be going to jail, then the law should be changed to make their actions legal. If that's how you feel, lobby Congress. In the mean time, the law should be enforced.
I once saw a black man complain about being called "African-American"; he was a citizen of the UK whose family had immigrated from Jamaica or Haiti or something. He has no objection to being called "black", but considers himself neither African nor American, and finds that label offensive.
If it is a joke, I bet someone goes to jail.
For what crime, exactly?
Firefox (then called Phoenix) was a fork from the Mozilla Suite. That worked out pretty well.
If Google, an open source project, sends out all sorts of data that you might consider an invasion of privacy, is the open source community free to fork it?
Chrome is not an open source project. Chromium is an open source project, and yes, you're free to fork that, as per the terms of the licenses.